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Highlights
- Nineteen-year-old Sid is transferred to a new prison, finding friendship with her cellmate Britt, but she also forms a complicated relationship with a guard who seems to be watching their every move.
- About the Author: Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman is a Governor General's Literary Award- and Dora Mavor Moore Award-nominated playwright, and winner of the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Prize and the K.M. Hunter Artist Award.
- 96 Pages
- Drama, Canadian
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About the Book
The stories and experiences of three imprisoned women and a guard intertwine in dramatic and dangerous ways, as the psychological destruction that is solitary confinement taunts each of their lives.Book Synopsis
Nineteen-year-old Sid is transferred to a new prison, finding friendship with her cellmate Britt, but she also forms a complicated relationship with a guard who seems to be watching their every move. In another time, an older inmate named Kit talks to an unseen audience about a coming visitor and how she'll stop at nothing to see them, even if that means
bringing down the entire prison system. In another place, three girls wait as visitors, each one thinking about the complicated positions their mothers are in.
At times playful and mysterious, Guarded Girls is about the stories we tell to survive, and how the same stories can also destroy us.
About the Author
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman is a Governor General's Literary Award- and Dora Mavor Moore Award-nominated playwright, and winner of the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Prize and the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. Her writing includes The End of Pretending with Emily Sugarman, Twisted with Joseph Jomo Pierre, Scratch, and Sudden Death. She directed and co-created Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show and wrote for CBC Radio's Afghanada and for the TV series KING. Currently she is developing two new musicals as well as three feature films. She lives in Toronto.
