Plays

First produced in 2003 at Pacific Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. Geographic setting: Canada. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters in play: male adults: 1; female adults: 1. Play...

This podplay is a monologue that tells a story while guiding the listener from Brighouse Station to the Gateway Theatre. Janine whisks us away from Etienne in order to release us from his butchery...

Geographic setting: Nova Scotia, fishing village. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 2; female seniors: 1.

Four grade-12 students are on their way home from a disastrous appearance on a high school quiz show. Conceited Eric blames the others for their failure. Trying to avoid going home to face his...

First produced in 2007 at the Blyth Festival in Blyth, Ontario. Geographical setting: Rural Ontario. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 3. Play includes...

Reading given in 1999 at Brief New Works Festival in Calgary.

Co-authored by Catherine Shields. First produced in 1995 at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg Manitoba. Geographic setting: A family home. Historical period: Late 20th Century, 21st Century....

In this 10-minute play, a young developer attempts to persuade a Toronto city councilor that condos, hotels, and amusement parks should be established on the Toronto Islands.

When feisty 60-something New Yorker Gwen foils an armed robbery at a neighbourhood deli, her chance encounter with a celebrity unearths an old mystery in her life and that of her grown daughter....

Created with the input of four performers, director, dramaturge, sound composer, and consulting visual artists, this theatrical work used movement, projection, puppetry, song, and text.

First produced in 1991 at Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary, Alberta. Historical period: 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 3; female adults: 2.

It is 1932. American prohibition and the great depression dominate Canadian life in the Border Cities (now known as Windsor, Ontario). The men appear to have all the power, in both politics and in...

Geographic setting: Canada. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 1. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning, and for young actors.

First produced in 2009 at The Big Secret Theatre in Calgary, Alberta. Geographic setting: Urban. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1.

First produced in 1988 at the Gas Station Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting: Small prairie town. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 2....

Two actors in a waiting area bemoan the current lack of literacy in modern plays.

It is June, 1665, and the Plague arrives in Newgate Prison, London. Most prisoners, believing they are doomed, engage in debauchery, drunkenness, and the macabre dance of death. When the last...

Frances, Mathilda and Tea takes place on the afternoon of the annual birthday party held by two sisters for their dead mother. Mathilda is a hypochondriac. Frances is agoraphobic. Mathilda holds a...

Geographic setting: Rural Nova Scotia. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning.

First produced in 2012 at the Shadbolt Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. Geographic setting: Vancouver, British Columbia. Historical period: Early 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 3;...

A translation of Sébastien Harrisson’s gorgeously poetic, gloriously funny, Governor General's Award-nominated play, this work centres on the unpredictable friendship that develops between Today, a...

First produced in 2010 at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: Toronto. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 3. Play includes speeches suitable for...

First produced in 2011 at Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon. Geographic setting: Ottawa. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1. Play includes speeches...

In the aftermath of a local high school boy's mysterious death, Dan and Marion Metcalf are increasingly worried about their son, Zach. He's apathetic, and shuts himself away in the basement to play...

Two highly intelligent and fiercely independent young women find their lifelong friendship put to the test as they face the challenge of motherhood. In an outrageous, often hilarious, no-holds...

First produced in 1978 at Theatre Calgary in Calgary, Alberta. Geographic setting: Diodati, Lake Geneva. Historical period: 19th Century / Victorian. Characters: male adults: 4; female adults: 1;...

This adaptation of Moliere's original play was commissioned by the Manitoba Theatre Centre. Lyrics are set to French Canadian folk songs. Wylie based her adaptation on her own translation of...

Visiting the audience in the present day, Gertrude and Alice come to find out how history has treated them. The couple recounts stories of their forty-year relationship; of meetings with iconic...

In three monologues, this play depicts three women's relationship to the men in their lives. Dawn, 19, is about to marry a successful realtor whom she believes can give her what she wants. (This...

First produced in 2012 at Big Secret Theatre in Calgary, Alberta. Geographic setting: Southern Alberta. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 2.

The play opens on 15 November 1938, six days after the launching of the government planned and sponsored anti-Semitic program called Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass. It is the day that...

A young man meets his birth mother for the first time. This 15-minute chamber opera was commissioned by Tapestry New Opera.

A small-town investment club goes to the big city to celebrate its earnings, but each member has a private agenda that causes complication to the others. Six identical briefcases and three...

First published in 1993. Historical period: Future. Characters: female children: 1.

An unexpected guest shows up at a reunion.