The Execution
by Marie-claire Blais

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Synopsis

The Execution is Marie-Claire Blais’s only play for the stage.

Set in a boarding school, it tells the story of two schoolboys who plot the murder of one of their classmates and enact the crime.

As a play, it is a study of innocence, evil and complicity, themes well-known to readers of Blais’s fiction.

Publication

Publisher Talon Books
Year 1976
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 104
Place Vancouver
Language English
ISBN-13 9780889221031
ISBN-10 0889221030
LCCN 77361738
LCC PQ3919.B6 E913

The Execution is a Canadian play written by Marie-claire Blais and published by Talon Books in Vancouver (1976).

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