Playwrights Canada Press, 2017

Playwrights Canada Press

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (7), Female (4), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...In Judith Thompson's version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, a recently married Hedda navigates her new identity as a wife and the intense constraints put on her by society. She prefers pistols to cooking and does not care for raising a family...">

...In Judith Thompson's version of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, a recently married Hedda navigates her new identity as a wife and the intense constraints put on her by society. She prefers pistols to cooking and does not care for raising a family...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2014

Playwrights Canada Press

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 35, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...I Am Yours, a harrowing story about a group of characters on the brink of despair as each tries to escape what haunts them the most...">

...I Am Yours, a harrowing story about a group of characters on the brink of despair as each tries to escape what haunts them the most...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2015

Playwrights Canada Press

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Seventeen years ago, Isobel was murdered at the tender age of nine. Now she finds herself back in her previous life as a ghost searching for the person responsible for her untimely death. But this time she’s powerful, having the ability...">

...Seventeen years ago, Isobel was murdered at the tender age of nine. Now she finds herself back in her previous life as a ghost searching for the person responsible for her untimely death. But this time she’s powerful, having the ability...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2007

Playwrights Canada Press

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Based around the lives of three distinct characters – a young soldier imprisoned for her misconduct at a prison camp in Iraq, a microbiologist-cum-weapons inspector who exposes the false justifications for war and a mother/political...">

...Based around the lives of three distinct characters – a young soldier imprisoned for her misconduct at a prison camp in Iraq, a microbiologist-cum-weapons inspector who exposes the false justifications for war and a mother/political...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2014

Playwrights Canada Press

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Roles: Total (1), Female (1), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...A moving monologue set in 1970s South Africa that centres on a young girl’s surprising reaction after her nanny is murdered during a protest...">

...A moving monologue set in 1970s South Africa that centres on a young girl’s surprising reaction after her nanny is murdered during a protest...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2017

Playwrights Canada Press

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Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (14), Female (5), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia is a gripping story about the horrors of collective and personal wars as a family torn apart by death and destruction becomes their own worst enemy. When a deal between Agamemnon and his brother...">

...Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia is a gripping story about the horrors of collective and personal wars as a family torn apart by death and destruction becomes their own worst enemy. When a deal between Agamemnon and his brother...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2010

Playwrights Canada Press

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Teresa is sexy, seductive, and mentally challenged. Worshipped by her boyfriend, she turns tricks at $5, is addicted to Tim Hortons' doughnuts, lies without thinking, and overflows with endless kindness, but she continues to hold on to her...">

...Teresa is sexy, seductive, and mentally challenged. Worshipped by her boyfriend, she turns tricks at $5, is addicted to Tim Hortons' doughnuts, lies without thinking, and overflows with endless kindness, but she continues to hold on to her...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2015

Playwrights Canada Press

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Elora Dixon is a vibrant, middle-aged lawyer and disability-rights activist who has never walked a step in her life. A neuromuscular disease left her with a curved spine and a reliance on around-the-clock care. Nonetheless, she...">

...Elora Dixon is a vibrant, middle-aged lawyer and disability-rights activist who has never walked a step in her life. A neuromuscular disease left her with a curved spine and a reliance on around-the-clock care. Nonetheless, she...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2016

Playwrights Canada Press

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Scenes: 30, Roles: Total (3), Female (3), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Glory is a troubled teenage inmate who, in her solitary prison cell, is tormented by hallucinations. While she battles the creature in her mind, her adoptive mother Rosellen struggles to remain connected to her daughter, believing that she...">

...Glory is a troubled teenage inmate who, in her solitary prison cell, is tormented by hallucinations. While she battles the creature in her mind, her adoptive mother Rosellen struggles to remain connected to her daughter, believing that she...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2014

Playwrights Canada Press

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...White Biting Dog, a poetic black comedy about a divorced lawyer who prepares to kill himself by jumping off the Bloor Street Viaduct, until he encounters a small dog who sets him on a different path...">

...White Biting Dog, a poetic black comedy about a divorced lawyer who prepares to kill himself by jumping off the Bloor Street Viaduct, until he encounters a small dog who sets him on a different path...