Download or read book Desperate Stages written by Edward Mullaly and published by Fredericton, N.B. : Fiddlehead Poetry Books & Goose Lane Editions. This book was released on 1987 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate Stages tells the stories of a disgraced one-time playwright, a starving actor, and a failed actor-manager, whose lives crossed in Fredericton in 1845. Together they provided New Brunswick with some of its most exciting drama and its wildest theatre riot.