Plays

Sybil is a 10-part series for radio inspired by the experiences of Karen Blixen, aka, Isac Dinesen, in Kenya. An elderly famous Danish novelist tells her life story to her biographer. She speaks of...

First produced in 2003 at Poor Alex Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 2. Play includes speeches suitable for actors...

Eleven fables are adapted from the Russian master of tales, Tolstoy.

A French resistance fighter meets with a local woman who has crossed the line.

First produced in 1988 at King Edward Park School in Edmonton, Alberta. Geographic setting: France. Historical period: Early 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1. Play...

Produced in 1997 by CKST Radio.

First produced in 2004 at the Vancouver Fringe Festival in British Columbia. Geographic setting: Bosnia. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: female adults: 2.

Betty and Sam have arrived at a doctor's office, but Sam has second thoughts about keeping the appointment. He doesn't want to go through long, painful treatments for his newly diagnosed cancer. He...

"'The Archive of Missing Things' was founded in order to collect, catalogue, and store all missing objects that are in the world. The Archive was built around a secret. 'The Archive of Missing...

First produced in 2002 at the Globe Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan. Geographic setting: Canadian Prairies. Historical period: Early 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1.

At the end of World War II, Holland is in chaos. The artist van Meergeren is arrested. His crime? Selling a long-lost painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer to Herman Goering, Nazi leader....

Staged reading presented in 2014 at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta. Geographic setting: Bosnia and Canada. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 3; female adults:...

Three women differing in ages and background meet at their book club to gossip and let off some steam, but are interrupted by a phone call from an absent member. As a result of the phone call, what...

This children's play is a lively adaptation of a darkly comic Grimm's tale.

Welcome to Henderson, Tessier, McGuire, and Smythe's annual Xmas cocktail party, held at the gracious home of managing partner George Smythe and his lovely wife, Buffy. It's the Catering Gig from...

First produced in 1988 by CBC Radio in Toronto, Ontario. Historical period: Future. Characters: male adults: 5; female adults: 5.

A man and a woman meet each other again--seemingly accidentally--after several years. However, there is something odd about their meeting. Is it fate? Or is there a darker force at work? Has the...

Hannah Parson, a young woman in her early 30s, is harassed by three collection agents who force her to confront her debt and isolation as she struggles to create meaningful art in her disheveled...

In this 10-minute play, the spirit of a passionate young woman clings desperately to the physical world by seeking a lover. Unfortunately, the man she chooses is using her as much as she is using...

Set in rural Ontario, The Concessions follows Fay, a woman who makes her living reading tarot cards, in the aftermath of a murder. As the search for the person responsible gets more desperate, the...

This adaptation of a 17th-century "wonder tale" about a little boy who grows up to be a beautiful girl, and her adventures in Paris, uses puppets and actors.

A companion piece to "her only customer...", this play explores the relationship between playwright and critic.

Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: senior female adults: 2. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning.

As a couple faces the dilemma of an unplanned pregnancy, their decision to search beyond their trivial self-definition, to face every thought, enables every option to become a path to healing,...

Two children confront Fate in the woods, and she's large as life and twice as dangerous.

A married couple, startled to find themselves suddenly dead, decides to go back and relive their final hours in an attempt to discover whodunit. Their supernatural return soon becomes a spirited...

"The Deepest Trench" is an "almost love story" about the ways we protect the people we love, trench warfare as a version of a fairy-tale ending, and a pair of ducks.

Aliens have mistakenly sent a 'discovery capsule' to Earth and are determined to retrieve it, but before they can, it is found by children on their way to school. Opening it, they pull our ordinary...

At times darkly comic, at times harsh, "The Dissociates" is the story of Alex, a middle-aged lesbian, who finds herself at a critical moment in her life. Having just returned home from the hospital...

The Drama Queens are a comedy duo: Trixie and Chicie. World-famous stars, celebrity superstars turned Self Help Gurus, they travel anywhere and everywhere, including the international TV circuit,...

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First produced in 1999 at the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Geographic setting: England. Historical period: Early 20th Century. Characters: female adults: 3. Play includes monologues suitable for...

The Duchess enters the audacious world of Wallis Simpson--from the filth of Shanghai brothels to the regal splendour of Buckingham Palace--shedding light on the infamous woman for whom King Edward...

First produced in 2000 at Jagged Edge Lunchbox Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. Geographic setting: Wooded parkland. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 1. Play...

(In 1830s Nova Scotia) Tamlyn, an adventurous young man, is captured by the Elfin Queen and forced to serve as her knight. Katherine must brave sprites, bogles, riddles, and a changeling child in...