Yaga by Kat Sandler

Yaga by Kat Sandler

The play behind the hotly anticipated Canadian TV series starring Hudson Williams, Ezra Franky and Carrie-Anne Moss.

She's more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, smart, modern woman operating off of morally ambiguous motives? 

A detective finds himself in a small, isolated town asking, what does the disappearance of the young heir to a yoghurt empire have to do with some random lore about an old witch? Matched by an apprehensive local sheriff, a university professor with a taste for younger men, and a whole cast of curious characters, the Slavic myth of Baba Yaga twists into a new labyrinth of secret lives, ancient magic, and multiple suspects. 

This genre-bending comedic fairy tale meets thrilling whodunit gives voice to an antihero of epic proportions while interrogating how her story has historically been told by men.

Kat Sandler's play Yaga was first staged at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto in 2019. It was later turned into a TV drama series for Canadian streaming service Crave, due for release in 2026.

Kat Sandler is a writer, director, and Artistic Director of Theatre Brouhaha, where she has directed twelve of her original plays in the last six years, including Toronto Best of Fringe hits Bright Lights and Punch Up. She was a member of the 2014 Tarragon Playwrights Unit, where she developed Mustard, which won the 2016 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play (General Division). She was the 2015 recipient of NOW Magazine's Audience Choice Award for Best Director and Best Playwright. Kat is a graduate of the Queen's University drama program. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780369101655
ISBN 10	0369101650
Title	Yaga
Author	Kat Sandler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Playwrights Canada Press,Canada
Year published	2023-08-03
Number of pages	128
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.