Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal

From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make the best of a desperate situation.

Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, and Jude, an excitable preteen—are on the run following the murder of Lisa’s rapist. As the police close in, Maria is determined to give her kids a last supper that prepares them for everything they’re going to need to survive in the world without her.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Release date: Jan 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9780369102928

Cliff Cardinal

Born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Cardinal (Stitch, Huff, and Cliff Cardinal’s CBC Special) studied playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada and is an associate artist at VideoCabaret, where he develops his new work.

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Cover: Too Good to be True by Cliff Cardinal. A black bird with a worm in it's mouth is flying down toward two baby birds sitting in a nest looking up at their mom. The nest is in a large, opened cardboard box laying on it's side. There is a red arrow that points up on the side of the box. In the background the sun is rising up on the horizon.

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Playwrights Canada Press

Toronto

Too Good to be True © Copyright 2021 by Cliff Cardinal

First edition: January 2022

Jacket art by Dan Springer

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Too good to be true / Cliff Cardinal.

Names: Cardinal, Cliff, author.

Description: A play.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210343346 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210343362

| ISBN 9780369102904 (softcover) | ISBN 9780369102911 (PDF)

| ISBN 9780369102928 (HTML)

Classification: LCC PS8605.L5574 T66 2021 | DDC C812/.6—dc23

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