Most Popular Books by Guillermo Verdecchia

Short stories about people lost between countries and languages--caught between the impulse to flee and the desire to belong.

Two plays, on Argentina's Dirty War of 1976-83, constitute an unsparing interrogation of a world perpetually at war.

In 1990, during Operation Desert Storm, a troubled Canadian soldier and a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer meet in the Qatari desert.

One man's struggle to find a home between two cultures, exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. Cast of 1 man. Governor General's Drama Award Winner, 1993.

Exposes the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the war on terror". Cast of 4 men.

A play about sensitivity training that is anything but sensitive.

In The Noam Chomsky Lectures?an angry, funny, political tirade?Brooks and Verdecchia challenged audiences to wake up. With Insomnia, the duo's latest collaboration and a much darker show, awakening has become a curse. John is a man skeptical to the point of tyranny. So rigorously demanding of the world and himself that he has lost the power to sleep, he is driving himself and his wife to distraction. "Insomnia turns Chomsky's politics inward'at what point, Insomnia asks, do healthy skepticism and reasonable doubt turn into paranoia and paralysis? Unfolding in a series of ever more surreal vignettes, Insomnia employs a powerful brand of non-linear, disorienting story-telling that skilfully focuses an audience's attention."?NOW