New Releases by Michael Healey

From the award-winning author of the smash hit The Master Plan comes an outrageous new political comedy adapted from the bestselling exposé Rogers v. Rogers: The Battle for Control of Canada's Telecom Empire by Alexandra Posadzki. Telecom titan Ted Rogers built a fortune turning Canada's airwaves into cash. Now his son Edward, long dismissed by his father, is fighting to claim control of the family empire. Meanwhile, the plucky head of the Competition Bureau, Matthew Boswell, is determined to derail Rogers's multi-billion-dollar merger with Shaw Communications. A modern-day David and Goliath saga of succession, corporate intrigue, and family betrayal, this salacious true story performed by one actor embodying a host of unforgettable characters pulls back the curtain on the ruthless telecom industry, its absurd mishaps, and on one of the most dramatic family feuds in Canadian history.

In 2017, when the public agency Waterfront Toronto decided to put up a parcel of land for development, Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's Alphabet Inc., swept in with a proposal to create the city of the future. Waterfront Toronto jumped at the opportunity to advance housing sustainability and affordability by exploring Alphabet's innovative technology and data-driven techniques. But the project quickly started to fall apart from uneasy partnerships, sclerotic local politics, and an overwhelmingly negative public response. In this biting comedy about the failure to build a smart city in Toronto, Michael Healey lampoons the corporate drama, epic personalities, and iconic Canadian figures involved in the messy affair between Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto. Based on the bestselling exposé, Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy by Josh O'Kane, The Master Plan exposes the hubris of big tech, the feebleness of government, and the dangers of public consultation with sharp wit and insightful commentary.

A biting political satire from the acclaimed author of The Drawer Boy.

Winner of the 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play.

What happens when someone is overwhelmed by a desire to help? Does it matter if people only do good in order to feel good? One of Canada's finest playwrights tackles tricky questions in Generous--four short interconnected plays that explore the complications and moral ambiguity created by the altruistic impulse. By turns hilarious, shocking, moving, and politically&#ndash;charged, Healey's intertwined plots and characters create a theatrical piece that is both thought&#ndash;provoking and powerfully entertaining. Act One of each of the plays happens before intermission; the resolutions~and revelations--take place afterward. In PMO, a minority government teeters on the brink of falling when an MP appears, soaked in blood. In The Death of the Alberta Report, a cut&#ndash;throat oil executive tells the truth to a reporter, and then seduces him. One&#ndash;Party Rule begins with an excruciating post&#ndash;coital chat between an aging judge and a loquacious young law clerk. And Lily kicks off with a spectacular battle over a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Each play contains a generous deed. And in the second half, the surprising consequences of those four seemingly unrelated acts of generosity will take your breath away.

A grand Tuscan hotel. A gathering place for people from across the globe. Two transactions. In one, art is for sale; in the other, weapons-grade plutonium. When the money gets mixed up, it is up to Canadian art dealer and world-class innocent Samuel Kneck to sort it all out. An old-fashioned farce about contemporary anxieties, from the author of the award-winning The Drawer Boy.

A new play by the author of The Drawer Boy.

Winner of a Governor General's Award

In six major EU donor agencies

Examines the political dimensions of economic policy making in the 1970s and 1980s.

Study of the economic theory underlying the allocation of economic aid to developing countries and the role of developed countries therein - examines the impact of aid on the economic growth and trade of recipient countries and the effect of 'source tying' (the procurement of goods in the donor country) and of the terms of aid in respect of one particular project in the recipient country. Bibliography pp. 105 to 107, references and statistical tables.