Publisher's Synopsis
High Sticking, a collection of four short plays about hockey, explores the Canadian passion for the sport É as well as some of our other national obsessions! In Coach Kingston Tells It Like It Is, the coach educates a minor hockey dad on the importance of anger, hatred, loathing, giving 115 percent, and the immortal soul. Eleanor, St. Etheldrum's own 14-year-old field hockey goon, ruminates on the finer points of the game-and Karl Marx, Louis Vuitton bags and much more-from her vantage point in the penalty box. In Life Without Gretzky, an Edmonton performance artist mourns The Great One's retirement. And Table Top features the first-ever table-top hockey brawl, as an Anglophone Leafs fan, a Francophone Habs fan, and an Amercian Rangers fan discover many points of contention ... along with an enduring love for the "Big Board."
