In our January, 2012, issue, NC published a play by Lynn Coady. NC’s taste seems prescient now since, last night, Lynn won the $50,000 Giller Prize in Toronto for her latest story collection Hellgoing. Click on the link to view her acceptance speech. Click below to read her hilarious play.
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Okay—I think if you cross Aristophanes with Samuel Beckett or Eugene Ionesco, you might end up with something like Lynn Coady’s irreverent fringe play Mark. Or, if you cross tag-team wrestling with the Battle of the Sexes—the play actually has a club called the “slap-stick” and a very large phallus. Mark is a delight and a lovely addition to Numéro Cinq‘s growing collection of plays and screenplays, a section of the magazine that is unique as far as I can tell.
WOW! Huge congratulations!!!!