Nicolas Billon's guest appearances

Nicolas Billon

PlayME

Ian Brown

Mark Crawford

Hannah Moscovitch

Robert Chafe

Rosamund Small

Keith Barker

Dramaturg Erica Kopyto

Hayden Taylor

Judith Thompson

Anna Chatterton

Andrea Scott

Dwayne Morgan

Rose Napoli

Norman Yeung

Emil Sher

OwlTail

Laura talks to Governor General award-winning playwright Nicolas Billon about his play "BUTCHER", a dark political thriller set on Christmas Eve. Billon explains why he felt the need to invent a country, and a whole language, to tell the story he wanted to tell; how Hitchcock's thrillers inspire his writing; and what he thinks of the notion that "you can have peace or you can have justice, but you can't have both."

BUTCHER: Interview with Nicolas Billon

In the midst of a severe stock market correction, PlayME revisits Iceland by Nicolas Billon. Set against the backdrop of the 2008 banking crisis, Iceland unearths greed, selfishness, and other ugly human impulses that help fuel the fires of raging capitalism.

PlayME NOW:  Iceland by Nicolas Billon