Plays

A Swedish family emigrates to Canada. This romance is set during the Spanish Flu epidemic at the end of World War I.

Two children rescue their mother who has been captured by the Blizzard spirit as a result of their negligence.

The six stories in this play are adapted from Japanese folk tales.

This one-hour play, written with a review from Tom Kerr, is adapted from Charles Dickens' novel. Scenes are linked by a children's choir.

This piece offers an operatic take on the final scene of Ibsen's A Doll's House.

An eight-part adaptation of Rohinton Mistry's novel for radio.

First produced in 2004 at Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. Geographic setting: Canada. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2.

Reading staged in 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, at Tarragon Theatre's Rehearsal Hall.

Written in collaboration with Sandra Balcovske, this hour-long monologue depicts an experience of watching baseball on TV that leads to a deeper understanding of relationship dynamics.

It is 1941. Edith and Will live in a paper company town. Unexpectedly pregnant, Edith dreams that the war and the new baby will mean new opportunities and a new beginning. Will dreams of freedom...

Adrienne has had no contact with her parents since she ran away from rural Alberta seventeen years ago. Now in the big city, she lies in a coma following a...

First produced in 2009 at the Edmonton Fringe Festival in Alberta. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 1. This play includes speeches suitable for actors who are auditioning.

Geographical setting: Toronto, Ontario. Historical Period of Play: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 5. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning, and for young actors.

Alice James (sister of the novelist Henry James), on her death bed, in a morphine haze, reviews her life with the help of Henry and her companion Katharine Loring, as well as characters from...

A widow lives alone in a tacky rooming house and her only companion is a puppet who talks to her. The play takes her through a crucial day in her life. Raped a few days earlier, she is preparing...

First produced in 2002 by CBC Radio. Geographical setting: Toronto. Historical period: 21st Century. Characters: female adults: 1. Play includes speeches that are suitable for actors auditioning.

First produced in 2010 at Alumnae Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: A room somewhere in south-east Asia. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 2.

This play is based on the G.K. Chesterton's Magic. A parlour magician falls in love with the daughter of the house in which he is hired to entertain, and finds his tricks start turning into...

When a man fixes up a northern Alberta lake cabin as a healing place for his wife, he meets an unlikely spiritual guide at the dump, who helps him find his own salvation in the natural world.

This text and dance anthology explores sin in society looking backwards through time.

An American academic named Allan Taylor travels to 1968 Leningrad to meet wit Lev Gumilyov, the only son of dissident Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova. This encounter leads to an opening of Lev's...

A translation of French-Canadian playwright [Summary of Play]Christian Bégin's Après Moi, the play "is six versions of the same story, six ways of experiencing the same moment with increasing...

This play was inspired by George Gissing's The Old Woman (1883). The setting is 1885 -- a time of great passion, great confusion. A population imbalance leaves London flooded with half a million...

First produced in 1993 by CBC Radio in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: An airplane. Historical period: Late 20th Century, 21st Century. Characters: male adults: 2. Play includes speeches...

A four-part dramatization of Margaret Atwood's novel for radio.

Inspired by the life and work of the poet Gwendolyn MacEwan, this play celebrates the creative spirit. MacEwan appears as an alien creature, poet, drunk, magician, and prophet. She also brings her...

Jack and Ginger, co-workers at a chain bookstore, decide to take their relationship to the next level. After an unsatisfactory ending to their first date, this ‘almost-couple’ makes a simple pact:...

This one-woman solo drama is based on the final year of the life of Marlene Dietrich. She has become a recluse, interacting with the world only by telephone.

This play is based on the legend of the ghost of the island of Fernando de Noronha, off the coast of Brazil. This ghost is a beautiful blonde siren who lures evil men to their deaths. Don, on...

This play is an adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play, set in Saskatchewan in the 1960s.

First produced in 2011 by CFBU Brock University Student Radio in St. Catharines, Ontario. Geographic setting: A bathroom. Historical period: Future. Characters: male adults: 1.

"Ana's Shadow," the sequel to "Harriet's House" continues the story of Harriet and her three daughters: Luisa, Ana, and Clare. Luisa is back in Toronto and planning to study medicine. Ana is an...

What happens when a gal and a fella have a good chemistry but questionable compatibility? This play is an unscientific exploration of a love story.

"And All for Love" is the story of imagined friendship between two of the first women on the Restoration stage in London in the mid 1600s. Winnifred Gosnell has run away from the employ of diarist...

This play, a fantasy based on Lewis Carroll's Alice books and his relationship to the real Alice Liddell, is a devised creation using performers, puppets, video projection, songs, and a little tap...

Andie, a young woman, cross-dresses to audition for female roles in Shakespeare's plays (in Elizabethan times played by boy actors), and falls in love with her leading man. Rejected by her lover...

The Angel of Death has come to take an old woman away, but she tricks him into letting her review her life. There are a couple of things she needs to find out, and does, with surprising results....

First produced in 1976 at Redlight Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: Vancouver. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 7; female adults: 1; female children: 1...