The Grandkid

By John Lazarus

Julius Rothstein and his granddaughter Abby have loved each other from opposite ends of Canada since Abby was born. But now, accepted as a freshman student at the university where Julius teaches, Abby is moving in with him to be close to school and to keep her newly widowed grandfather company. The two must negotiate a new relationship as housemates and friends, which means dealing with issues of youth and age, work and play, activism and apathy, homework and heart attacks, and those three tricky topics: sex, politics, and religion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Release date: Apr 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781770912144

John Lazarus

John Lazarus has been an award-winning playwright since 1970. His plays include Babel Rap, Dreaming and Duelling, The Late Blumer, Village of Idiots, and The Grandkid. John taught playwriting for a decade at Studio 58, and sporadically at the Vancouver Film School and National Theatre School. He retired in 2021 after twenty-one years of teaching at Queen's University. He and his wife currently divide their time between Vancouver and Kingston, Ontario. His book Two Ways About It: The Inside and Outside of Playwriting was published in the fall of 2023 by J. Gordon Shillingford.