About the Play:

HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are still available.

Finalist for 2003 Governor General's Award for Drama (Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize)

Winner of the 1999 Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition

Last Romantics is a full-length comic drama by Michael Lewis MacLennan. The play chronicles the staggering triumphs and losses of the now-forgotten brilliant artistic duo Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, to create a vivid portrait of a world left behind by the dawning of the modern age.

Last Romantics is a fictionalized portrait of the 50-year relationship between painter Charles Shannon and art collector Charles Ricketts, who influenced the early collection of the National Gallery. Last Romantics travels from the drawing rooms of the fin-de-siecle London, with Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley to Mackenzie King's Canada on the eve of the Great Depression.

Last Romantics premiered in 2003 at National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

Cast: 3 female, 5 male

What people say:

"MacLennan delivers a masterpiece." — Capital Xtra

About the Playwright:

Michael Lewis MacLennan is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and TV producer who divides his time between Toronto, Vancouver and Los Angeles. He is a two-time finalist for the Governor General's Award (Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), and the only playwright to win the prestigious Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award twice. For TV, he has been co-executive producer on Queer As Folk, and executive producer and creator of both Godiva's and jPod (based on Douglas Coupland's novel), for which he wrote four episodes.