A haunting, poetic play from one of Canada's leading playwrights, Scorched is a powerful investigation of trauma and family ties. It was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film, Incendies (2010), under its original French title.

A mother falls into complete silence. Upon her death, her twin children Janine and Simon are asked to uproot the source of that silence. They must find the father they never knew, and the brother they never knew they had. Their journey begins in Montreal but the answers lie in the rubble of a war-torn desert.

Wajdi Mouawad's play Scorched is a beautifully written story about a mother's unspeakable pain.

It is published, in this English translation by Linda Gaboriau, by Playwrights Canada Press.

'This haunting work may be the best piece of theatre this country has produced this millennium' — Globe and Mail

'Mouawad knows when to lighten the load with broad comedy, when to scent the air with poetry that lingers long afterwards, and when to use the inevitable building blocks of good dramatic structure to create a towering edifice of pain everyone must climb' — Toronto Star