The Playmaker Mordecai Richler but he refuses to become

but he refuses to become a scapegoat in what he see as as a show trial designed to reinforce a stringent political correctness

Asanka's world is changed beyond imagining

The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent years

'I don't have any friends

that the Sidhe are alive and well

The Playmaker Mordecai Richler but he refuses to becomeIn 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. As felons, perjurers and whores rehearse, their playmaker becomes strangely seduced. For the play's power is mirrored in the rich, varied life of this primitive land, and, not least, in the convict and actress, Mary Brenham.