Asking for It and Other Plays

by Ellie Moon · 2020

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"Three timely plays from rising Canadian theatre star Ellie Moon examining gender roles and sexual consent, the gaps in how people perceive and understand the world they live in, female generational rage, and conflicts between old power and new ideas, academia and decolonization, and language and authority."—

Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
abuseabuseMore like thisLess of thisgendergenderMore like thisLess of thismother daughtermother daughterMore like thisLess of thissisterssistersMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2020s2020sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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