Love and Anger was a Finalist for the 1990 Governor General's Award for Drama (Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize)

Love and Anger has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues.

Set in what is transparently a single neighborhood, The East End Plays by George F. Walker is a series of related plays that explore the margins of contemporary urban life in the global village. Where is the East End? It's where the sun comes up, and where you bury the dead. It's where George Walker set six of his plays. It's the Lower East Side of New York; down by the East River and East L.A. It's where George Walker's settings have "come home."

Three of the interrelated plays – Beautiful City, Love and Anger, and Tough! – are collected in a volume called The East End Plays: Part 2.

From his offer of tenuous hope to the denizens of a city salvaged from the powerful and the greedy in Beautiful City (1987); to his championing of women in Love and Anger, which met with great success in the United States in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago (the Acting Edition is currently out of print); to his explorations of sex and gender issues among three young people in Tough! (1993), George Walker continues his explorations of characters living in extremity in the arena of a political comedy uniquely his own.

What people say:

"Walker writes with unprecedented directness…[His] characters think and feel out loud in a perpetual present-tense fever because life, and often more, is on the line.." — Village Voice

About the Playwright:

George F. Walker is a prolific Canadian playwright with working-class roots in Toronto's hard-luck Cabbagetown, the city's now trendy East End. Instrumental to the 1970s alternative theatre movement in Canada, the self-taught playwright has written more than 30 plays and created screenplays for several award-winning Canadian television series. His plays have been presented across Canada and the United States and in more than 700 productions internationally. His work has been honoured with two Governor General's Awards, eight Chalmers Awards, and five Dora Awards. He is also the recipient of the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement and is a Member of the Order of Canada.