Cold Comfort: A Play of Love & Bondage

By Jim Garrard

Cold Comfort: a play of love & bondage is the third in a quartet of plays that Jim Garrard calls "Bondage Plays for My Country." The play could take place anywhere along the Trans-Canada Highway, but it happens to be set in Saskatchewan, the geographic centre of the country. There are three characters in the play: Dolores, a fifteen-year-old girl who wants to know more about the world than what the window and the household TV can tell her; Floyd, her father, with whom she lives in an abandoned service station, whose paternal misdeeds form the sinister backdrop for the play's action; and Stephen, the proverbial travelling salesman, who unwittingly stumbles into this complex relationship and finally becomes victim to it. Cold Comfort was first produced by 25th Street Theatre in Saskatoon; then at the Salon Theatre at the Toronto Theatre Festival. It was revived in Toronto by Theatre Passe Muraille; and has been produced in Vancouver at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889222010
• ISBN13: 9780889222014
• Release Date: February 1982
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"