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A clown show about feminist collectives, women’s history, stage fright and true love. Opening night of a brand new collective creation. The senior artist is in an accident and the stage manager is forced to go on. The director is in love with the lead and the lead is obsessed with the senior artist, who might be dead, and who just might be haunting the performance. Puppets, pirates, nuns, vikings, wrestling, swing dancing, bullfighting and suffragists. This is an extremely fast-paced, funny and rapier-sharp look at what we know of women’s history, feminism, and performance. It is also the story of five individual characters facing their life’s greatest fears and coming out (more or less) intact.

​1784: (Un)Settling Antigonish is a theatrical pilgrimage of truth and reconciliation in the popular theatre tradition. United Empire Loyalists (mostly Irish), Black Loyalists, Mi’kmaq, and Acadians, return from the dead at the 1784 landing site at Antigonish Harbour, to speak truth to history and to acknowledge that we are all treaty people. The pilgrimage begins at the Antigonish Heritage Museum, where the pilgrims meet to take the Community Transit Bus to the landing site (Act 1) and grave site of Antigonish’s first Settlers. The nation-to-nation dialogue between the intergenerational and multi-cultural performers takes the form of pilgrims joining each other on a journey as walkers among walkers, often challenging each other’s version of history. Period music of Irish Harp, Flute, Mi’kmaw Drum, and Black Spirituals punctuates the story line. Pilgrims on and off stage join in songs and healing rituals.

Set in the kitchen of a “fixer-upper,” the action centers around the pending exorcism of a haunted stove and the contents of a mysterious briefcase found in the stove. The play explores the themes of new-age addiction, materialism and greed.

A man is haunted by the 28-year institutionalization of his older brother. His life is viewed as he moves back and forth through his past and present, talking with his parents, ex-wife, fiancée, and his brother, whose unusual voice he has on tape. Based on my short story “A Brother’s Love”. First prize Dramatist Co-op NS Script competition 1992.

An adaptation of Dickens’s classic Christmas tale that focuses on the humour of the original story.

Scrooge, Marley, Cratchit, Tiny Tim – they’re all here in this simple and straightforward retelling of Charles Dickens’ wonderful Christmas tale. Tailored to work for smaller professional cast productions as well as larger community productions.

​Based on a fictional visit to a village by Helen Creighton and her friend Doreen Senior, they arrive expecting to hear new ghostly tales and songs, only to discover the stories are all taken from one of Helen’s previous books and it was just a ruse by the villagers to make their village famous.

​The play is set in the 1940s and is about Harry and Lilly’s wedding day.  But there is a problem, if Lilly’s widowed Father has his way, the wedding will not take place.  He is a self-centred man and relies on Lilly to do all his chores as well as work in his shop.  When he’s unable to talk her out of the marriage, he resorts to lies to discredit the groom, which Lilly doesn’t believe, so he schemes to prevent Harry from showing up at the Church.

​Set on the Eastern Shore of NS in the late 1940s, this short story is about a young 14 year old girl.  When Dorothy is taken out of school to care for a family whose 40 year old Mother is about to give birth again, Dorothy has her hands full.

SYNOPSIS – Detailed

Eva Clayton, a successful architect in Louisiana, is struggling with the two central relationships in her life.  Her mother, Edith, is dying.  Her lover, Brian, also her partner in the architecture firm, is pressing her for a commitment.  While overseeing the demolition of an 18th century house prior to erecting a mall on the site, Eva meets Joseph.  At first she takes him for a construction worker and then when Joseph insists that he dug the foundations of the house back in the 1700’s she presumes she’s suffering from some sort of stress-induced delusion.  Gradually Eva accepts that Joseph is a lost soul and only she can see him and talk to him.  A conversation at Edith’s bedside between Brian and Eva is overheard by Edith who realizes for the first time that her own idyllically happy marriage made Eva feel excluded as an only child, and that, as an adult, Eva’s difficulties in love stem from her idealized perception of her parent’s perfect romance.  To Brian’s further chagrin Eva begins to return to the construction site in the evenings, apparently alone, but actually finding solace in her conversations with Joseph.  She learns of his life in Acadie, how he was among thousands of Acadians deported by the English in 1755, and how his mother died on that awful sea voyage.  Then to her surprise, Eva learns from Edith that her own predecessors were French-speaking settlers.  Mother and daughter also broach what Edith has overheard and reach an understanding.  On the strength of this reconciliation Edith makes a surprising request.  She wants Eva to go away, she doesn’t want her to witness her dying; she wants to be remembered as herself, not what she’s about to become.  While Eva agonises over this, she learns that at the time of the deportation Joseph made a promise that he would one day return to Grand Pre.  Now Joseph appeals to Eva to help him keep that promise.  The first Act ends with Joseph asking Eva to take him home.

Act 2 follows Eva and Joseph on the road to Grand Pre and charts the delicate development of their interdependence.  Her belief in Joseph and the physical limitations that inevitably exist between them teaches Eva something about the importance of faith in any relationship.  For his part, Joseph avails himself of the unexpected opportunity to purge himself of certain feelings which death seemed to have sealed inside him forever.  Meanwhile, Brian doesn’t give up on Eva.  Indeed, after Edith’s death, Brian pursues Eva and attempts to persuade her to return with him to Louisiana.  Eva refuses to do this.  Nor can she bring herself to attempt an explanation of her apparently solo expedition northward.   On arrival at Grand Pre, Joseph is bewildered by the monuments which publicly proclaim significant events in his private life.  In particular, the plaque describing the Noble massacre in which some sixty English soldiers were surprised in their beds by a French contingent aided by MiqMaq trackers and some Acadians.  Joseph’s older brother was one of those Acadians and took fifteen year-old Joseph along with him – this in defiance of their father’s staunchly neutral position.  The English reprisals for such attacks culminated in the mass deportation for which Joseph has always felt personally responsible.  Joseph’s ailing father had to be left behind and it was to his dying father that Joseph made the promise to return.  Eva is the only person he has been able to confide in about his remorse and guilt.  And so Joseph, purged at last, and in a sense absolved by Eva’s love for him, walks off into the early morning mist of the dykeland, his home.  As Eva stands where we discovered her at the beginning of the play, her mother enters, restored to the Saturday night splendour of her prime when she would go out dancing.  Mother and daughter say a final farewell.  Alone, Eva takes a call from Louisiana.         

​Three years ago, brothers Don and Dallas had a falling out. They are no longer business partners, or even friends. They are summoned to a lawyer’s office to review their mother’s will. She tells them if they want the sizable inheritance, they must reconcile. The two boys have very different ideas about how to resolve this dilemma. 

The emotional breakdown of a 41-year-old man who fights to maintain control over his orderly life. Based on my short story “A New Map”.

​A Promise To Repair is is a dark comedy that explores the slippery slope between altruism and self-interest, as well as cultural identity and spiritual connection.

Lyon Walkove, a Jewish, middle-aged, newly recovering alcoholic, is in a Jewish-based program called Tikiat Tikkun (which translates as a promise to repair).  His sponsor or shomer (which means keeper, as in “Am I my brother’s keeper?”) is Paul Morris. Having learned that Lyon never had a bar mitzvah, Paul advises him to study with a rabbi to help facilitate his sobriety and recommends Rabbi Shelley Steinmetz. But he tells Lyon not to mention his name, as the program values anonymity.

When Shelley finds out that Lyon is in Tikiat Tikkun, she refuses to take him on as a student. Lyon is mystified, but Paul brushes it off and encourages Lyon to try again. Lyon does and this time Shelley agrees to take him on a lesson-by-lesson basis.

Paul’s fiancée, Frances Crean, is a Catholic who is converting to Judaism. She has passed the questioning of the Beit Din (a Jewish court made up of three rabbis) and now only has to go through the tevillah, a ritual immersion in the mikvah (a bath or pool) to officially become a Jew. She made her decision to convert before meeting Paul and he has always been supportive. But Frances is feeling nervous about the tevillah and Paul tells her she does not have to do it. She suspects that he is not as supportive as he once was.

Lyon comes to Paul’s apartment one evening when he is not home. He tells Frances that Paul was not in zitsung, (the meeting for Tikiat Tikkun members). Lyon is tense and distraught and Frances tries to calm him down. She makes coffee and discovers Lyon sniffing a whiskey flask. He swears he has not relapsed, but carries the flask as a way to control temptation. Frances is sympathetic and she and Lyon share an embrace that lasts a little too long. Lyon is apologetic, but it s clear there is a mutual attraction.

Paul did not go to zitsung because he is at Shelley’s apartment. They knew each other four years earlier, when Shelley was his shomer in Tikiat Tikkun. That relationship became intimate, leading them both to relapse and Shelley to leave the program and go to Israel. In the following years she became a rabbi. Paul has never forgotten her, but she wants nothing to do with him. He has forsaken his shomer’s vow to help Lyon and instead used him as a way to connect with Shelley once again. Paul is having doubts about his feelings for Frances. Shelley wants him to leave, but then they share a kiss.

At a Passover seder, Lyon uses his flask as a way to instigate matters and all the secrets come out. The evening culminates in Frances and Paul breaking up and Shelley taking a drink. Lyon and Frances then move in together. Angry about being used, Lyon has told the board of Tikiat Tikkun what Paul did and he (Paul) is kicked out of the program. Paul discovers that Shelley has relapsed hard. She has given up her students and spends all her time in her home office drinking. Paul makes a feeble attempt to intervene and she tries to induce him to drink with her. Paul tries to enlist the help of Lyon and Frances to have an intervention for Shelley, but they will not help him and Paul and Lyon come to blows. 

After Frances goes to Shelley for spiritual guidance – realizing some hard truths about her conversion – and Lyon and Paul suffer their own relapses, the four of them face the realities of having to start back at square one.   

​Lyon Walkove, a Jewish, middle-aged, newly recovering alcoholic, is in a Jewish-based program called Tikiat Tikkun (which translates as a promise to repair).  His sponsor or shomer (which means keeper, as in “Am I my brother’s keeper?”) is Paul Morris. Having learned that Lyon never had a bar mitzvah, Paul advises him to study with a rabbi to help facilitate his sobriety and recommends Rabbi Shelley Steinmetz. But he tells Lyon not to mention his name, as the program values anonymity.

When Shelley finds out that Lyon is in Tikiat Tikkun, she refuses to take him on as a student. Lyon is mystified, but Paul brushes it off and encourages Lyon to try again. Lyon does and this time Shelley agrees to take him on a lesson-by-lesson basis.

Paul’s fiancée, Frances Crean, is a Catholic who is converting to Judaism. She has passed the questioning of the Beit Din (a Jewish court made up of three rabbis) and now only has to go through the tevillah, a ritual immersion in the mikvah (a bath or pool) to officially become a Jew. She made her decision to convert before meeting Paul and he has always been supportive. But Frances is feeling nervous about the tevillah and Paul tells her she does not have to do it. She suspects that he is not as supportive as he once was.

Lyon comes to Paul’s apartment one evening when he is not home. He tells Frances that Paul was not in zitsung, (the meeting for Tikiat Tikkun members). Lyon is tense and distraught and Frances tries to calm him down. She makes coffee and discovers Lyon sniffing a whiskey flask. He swears he has not relapsed, but carries the flask as a way to control temptation. Frances is sympathetic and she and Lyon share an embrace that lasts a little too long. Lyon is apologetic, but it s clear there is a mutual attraction.

Paul did not go to zitsung because he is at Shelley’s apartment. They knew each other four years earlier, when Shelley was his shomer in Tikiat Tikkun. That relationship became intimate, leading them both to relapse and Shelley to leave the program and go to Israel. In the following years she became a rabbi. Paul has never forgotten her, but she wants nothing to do with him. He has forsaken his shomer’s vow to help Lyon and instead used him as a way to connect with Shelley once again. Paul is having doubts about his feelings for Frances. Shelley wants him to leave, but then they share a kiss.

At a Passover seder, Lyon uses his flask as a way to instigate matters and all the secrets come out. The evening culminates in Frances and Paul breaking up and Shelley taking a drink. Lyon and Frances then move in together. Angry about being used, Lyon has told the board of Tikiat Tikkun what Paul did and he (Paul) is kicked out of the program. Paul discovers that Shelley has relapsed hard. She has given up her students and spends all her time in her home office drinking. Paul makes a feeble attempt to intervene and she tries to induce him to drink with her. Paul tries to enlist the help of Lyon and Frances to have an intervention for Shelley, but they will not help him and Paul and Lyon come to blows. 

After Frances goes to Shelley for spiritual guidance – realizing some hard truths about her conversion – and Lyon and Paul suffer their own relapses, the four of them face the realities of having to start back at square one.   

​It’s 1942 and Gerald is in a bad mood.  All the men are away fighting except him.  They said he’s too old.  To make matters worse, he’s surrounded by women doing men’s work.

During this sketch, the family listen to the 5 o’clock news from Halifax.  everything the Newsreader says actually happened in 1942, eg: a Nova Scotia Province-wide black-out test with some amusing mishaps.

An unemployed man in his 20s tries to earn money by getting into the Guiness Book of World Records by sitting in a department store window watching TV for as long as possible. Based on my short story “A Television- watching Artist”.

​In what appears a straightforward courtroom drama, Mrs Jones is on trial for murder.  But all is not as it seems and this short, light comedy has a surprising twist at the end.

The emotional breakdown of a 41-year-old man who fights to maintain control over his orderly life. Based on my short story “A New Map”. 2nd prize Theatre PEI 1985 Playwriting Competition.

A priest/professor in a small Catholic college discovers that it requires direct action to confront his problems, and that a battle can sometimes be won by surrendering.”…witty and compassionate…” Charlottetown Guardian

​This short play is about two young drug dealers and a desperate buyer.  When Scott runs out of money he steals his Mother’s wedding ring to feed a habit.  When his Mother catches him in the act of buying the drugs, there is a surprising revelation.

Adapted from the book by Lewis Carroll, this play explores the story of a young girl, Alice, who falls down a rabbit hole and ends up in the nonsensical and curious world of Wonderland. As she journeys through this strange land, she means an ensemble of strange creatures who prove to be challenging, confusing, and yet teacher her many things about herself along the way. 

This version is unique because of its great mix of live actors, projection technology, and old school theatre magic. Through the use of projection, puppetry and other fun tricks, Alice shrinks, grows, stretches, swims, and interacts with animated characters, who appear and disappear before our eyes. Innovative, fast-paced, and full of surprises this play is engaging for audiences of all ages.

Etienne is accused of abusing his daughter, Alienor and refuses to tell the truth in order to protect her from the eyes of the law. In the end it is Alienor who reveals the truth. Translation from Acadian of Hermenegilde Chiasson’s play “Alenor”. Published in “Angels and Anger” PLCN 2003.

Not about child abuse, but about protecting the search for truth during an inquiry into a doubtful molestation incident in a small town daycare. Governor General’s Award Nominee 1994.

​An almost-couple in their 20s makes a simple pact: they won’t start their relationship until they get that first moment absolutely right. When the goal is perfection, it’s easy to get it wrong.

Adaptation for the stage, of the bestselling nove by Herb Curtis. The story of Brennan Siding on the Dungarvon River (N.B.’s beloved Miramichi) Coming of age. Also a love story-first love and late love. The community-who stays, who leaves.

Co-written with Herb Curtis.

“A harrowing vision into the soul of a female holy recluse.” – Ellissa Barnard, Halifax Mail Star

For forty years he’s been a successful farmer who thought the crisis couldn’t touch him, but now Ken Purves is struggling to keep banks and big agribusiness from taking the land that’s been in his family for more than a hundred years.

A man & a woman, the final contestants in a reality TV game show, attempt to outlast each other by not letting go of a large cardboard house as the host of the show provides commentary about their battle of wills.

“Intense poetic mapping that tantalizes with questions about the nature of love, lust, life, lies, and Literature.” — Mail Star

Two strangers are forced into meeting and talking to each other as they are blindfolded and tied together back-to-back against a tree in an abandoned location. A shorter version published in “Lichen Literary Journal” 3.2 (2001).

Set in 1986, with flashbacks to the 1950’s and the war years, a mother and daughter struggle with their relationship while the daughter, for the first time, learns of her mother’s past. An exploration of women’s war stories.

​Belinda lives in Spokesville: a forward thinking place where all the business of the town is carried out on bicycles.  So when Belinda, a modern, funky, garden loving witch, is presented with a town crisis where “every cycle has seized up” she has to take a bicycle by the bicycle horn, and put things right.  This is no simple task. A wicked spell has been cast on the town’s bicycles by Belinda’s nemesis, Moxy – a very bad tempered witch. The town council’s request that Moxy clean up the toxic mess in her front yard has resulted in a major temper tantrum, and the “cycling short circuit” which has Spokesville at a Standstill!

In order to get Moxy to lift the spell, Belinda has to face her old rival, and her own fears, and overcome them for the sake of her community.  She has to learn to ride a bike.  In doing so she makes a new friend where she thought she had an enemy – young Sam, the local Scallywag.  The lessons learnt through music and comedy in this piece embrace not just the obvious environmental ones about sustainable energy, transportation, and ecology but also, building trust, refusing to take people at face value, and learning to be a friend.

​Belle is the extraordinary story of two recently freed slaves, husband and wife, journeying to the north in search of a new life. When they encounter a white woman working for the suffrage movement, they become entwined in the social and political upheaval that epitomizes Post Civil War America. The play is bursting with a lush theatrical language.

It could be a chance encounter or serendipity that brings four women together at a small town cafe. Each – a middle-age waitress, a mother and daughter and a lonely woman – has a secret in her heart, and their meeting sets off a chain reaction that explores how we often filter what we see and hear through the veil of our own desires. “A wise, poignant and moving play”. Rosalind Maki, In-Fringe, July 2000

What happens between friends when a new person enters the scene? Dunc leaves town to find himself. Instead, he finds Sophie. When his two best friends Wally and Bill visit for the first time, they can’t believe how much he has changed. Bill thinks it’s great, Wally’s not so sure. As the weekend unfolds, we learn about friendships in general – how some change and how others endure.

Rose is struggling to come to terms with a betrayal in her marriage. Diving deeply through the layers of marriage and motherhood, Rose faces the choices she made, even the devastating one that may stop her from ever beginning her real work

This play is about the social costs of the devastation of the natural world.

Brat is an intriguing insight into the privileged, wonderful, and sometimes emotionally ravaging life of one Military Brat. “A mind blowing piece of art.” Ellissa Bernard, The Mail Star

​Set at the old Cape Breton Hospital in Sydney River in 1955, an empathetic cleaner finds a kindred spirit in a patient who is institutionalized after several tragic events in her life. As the bond between the two women grows, they must deal with the challenges of an unethical and powerful doctor. The play touches on the importance of compassion, family support, and the value of music therapy as a means of building immunity against and curing some forms of mental illness. Lead character (cleaner) sings and plays guitar and fiddle while patient sings. Play features two songs.

​Frank, a Vietnam War deserter, and Rebecca, a War on Terror deserter, meet in a military holding facility on the Michigan and Ontario border. Together they muse on what it means to be a coward as this surrealistic play deconstructs the cages that surround them.

A teen is accused of murdering his classmate. Through the days of his interrogation he learns about himself, his life, and what really matters. Translation from Acadian of Hermenegilde Chiasson’s play “Cap enrage”. Published in “Angels and Anger” PLCN 2003.

​Grounded for the week leading up to her tenth birthday, Cassandra embarks on a journey to get an A+ in life, and finds herself choosing whether it’s better to eat whole or multi-grain toast, to be a corporate accountant or folk-rock genius, and whether she’d rather live in a world of reality, or possibility.

The action takes place in the final assembly room of the Dominion Chair Company in Bass River, Nova Scotia in the 1940s. Chairmaker is a heart warming and hilarious hit musical about life, young love, growing up and growing old, going down the road, making chairs, making do and making fun. Music by Alastair Macdonald.

Three clowns attempt to portray the creation of the world as described in the early chapters of Genesis. This process begins in primeval chaos and, through human folly, anger, and violence, returns to chaos. Tragi-comedy in clown

An adaptation of the Sheldon Currie novel, a boy’s memory of growing up in a coal mining town and his struggle to leave it.

A high-ranking civil servant finds herself forced to look after a mentally-challenged man, for whom community no longer exists, due to her government’s harsh policies. Together they come to an understanding of what “Home” means. Book nominated for Governor General’s Award 1999.

The three-year marriage of a couple in their fifties is shattered when the woman finds out about the detailed sex diaries her husband has been secretly keeping since the first time they made love. First prize, Theatre PEI 1991 Playwriting Competition, one-act category. Based on my short story “Counting on Love”.

The harrowing ordeal a family undergoes when a child is abducted and lost forever. About the restorative power of love and the strength and courage required to survive tragedy.

When a good-looking stranger appears in the village, a dysfunctional family is forced to confront their involvement in a tragic rape that occurred a few years earlier. Translation from Acadian of Laval Goupil’s “Le Djibou, ou l’ange deserteur. Published in “Angels and Anger” PLCN 2003.

The government and bureaucrats are notorious for making decisions that defy logic. They can make you shake your head or seethe with anger, but it’s great sport for those who love to ridicule the absurdity of it all. In Department of Common Sense, a straight-talking, tequila-sipping minister and two whip-smart women on his staff take on a persnickety bureaucrat in a battle of wills – and wits.

A musical play that chronicles the circumstances surrounding the ill-fated Dieppe Raid of August 19, 1942. Set primarily in a victory bond rally in New Brunswick, the play speaks to the tremendous activity on the home front of training pilots and or women working in non traditional factory jobs. Originally a bilingual play with about a 50-50 split between French and English, the show was adapted in 2004 to be about 90% French.

​Combat Corey and Nurse Nathan find themselves thrown together.  Combat Corey thinks he’s brave compared to being a nurse like Nathan, but it’s Nathan that stays calm in a crisis.  (Suitable for young adults.)

Five university professors deal with personal desires and deficiencies as they attempt to stage a play about pirates. A story about loneliness, loons and love.

Alone. Depressed, Isolated. Dejected. Ah, the elements of Newfoundland comedy! The fishery is closed! The wife is gone! Can anyone bring Ed out of his morose depression? The other Ed thinks he can. Caricatures, comedic situations and ridiculous lines but with an undercurrent of seriousness.

Sequel to Ed & Ed – Trapped! Our Eds find themselves ‘hove to’ in The Tropical Inn on Highway 10, St. Pete’s Beach, Florida. When young Ed plays the guitar poolside and rakes in some hard American dollars he also manages to break some hard U.S. Customs rules and laws and before you can say Margaret Wente the boys find themselves in orange coveralls on their way to a secluded beach in Cuba

​The Eds are back! The third play in the Ed & Ed trilogy and the Eds have moved lock, stock and barrel back to Cow Head, Newfoundland to cash in on the ‘Cultural Tourism’ wave crashing over the province by opening up their very own Bed & Breakfast! Complications quickly surface when young Ed falls in love, old Ed’s ex-wife returns with some BIG news and all are thrown into madness with the arrival of a mysterious mainland tourist who’s lost his way.

​Two pregnant women, trapped in a stalled elevator after visiting their gynecologist, duke it out about motherhood, babies and their respective place in the world. Pam is a burned out mother of 4, Mop is a young woman whose life is so marginal she is not sure she even wants a baby. They are both searching for a place to stand in the world, and all they seem to have in common is the ten by ten foot square in the elevator.

An unemployed Newfoundlander sits atop the Churchill Falls Hydro Dam in Labrador threatening to blow it up unless the contract between Newfoundland and Quebec over rights to the falls is re-negotiated. His wife sits at home trying to figure out what went wrong – “a very human drama.”

Translation of New Brunswick Acadian play by Bertrand Dugas, Bernard Dugas and Rychard Theriault. Commissioned the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. The story of identical twins growing up in rural New Brunswick. It deals with the specific story of two boys who must learn how to become separate men while dealing with their tremendous biological bond

Tired of waiting for the show “Etiquette” to begin, two clowns – Sophie and Winston, climb on-stage and take matters into their own hands to the chagrin of the Director, Alec. They bumble their way through demonstrations of how one ought to behave. Created with the Bunnies in The Headlights Theatre Collective which includes: Andrea Dymond, Zach Fraser and Angela Gasparetto.

A single teenage mother, Dawn, tries to cope with her baby. Her boyfriend is looking for a way out of his responsibilities and Dawn’s childless brother wants to save the day. Will Dawn’s mother make an offer?

​A boy’s quest to sell the most chocolate bars and win a school contest is interrupted by a mysterious stranger who suspects the boy is not all that he seems. A dark chocolate comedy about the absurdity of life and perfectionism in art. 

Winner of Tarragon Theatre’s “Under 20 by Under 20’s Playwriting Competition” in 2010

​A dysfunctional family are stuck in a department store at Easter while a homicidal bunny holds them hostage. 

Four people search for connections: a doctor suffering from depression, a woman obsessed with plastic surgery, a germaphobe on a mission to bless the world with his genius sperm, and a teenage girl who has discovered that biology is not her friend. Nominated for Merritt Award in 2003.

A tender and funny evocation of one life long relationship captured in four movements. Requires 1 violinist.

Focuses on the life work of Francis Bacon, an early Manitoba journalist. A play about polarities of public and private lives and about issues of racism and pacifism in the women’s movement.

Three patients share a room in a neurological ward. An old actor and an amnesiac develop a friendship as the old actor attempts to prepare the amnesiac for a role in The Dybbuk and doctors attempt to find out who he is. Based on my short story “The Hearing of Memory’s Voice”.

A teenager encounters dissension and personal triumph when she attempts to form a union to protect the rights of her fellow workers at a fast food franchise. Winner of the Chalmers Award 1995. Published in “Flippin In and Then and Now” PLCN.

A writer who has difficulty writing and an actress who no longer acts have shared a room in a Charlottetown rooming house for five years. The complexity of love and dependency is seen as they argue about their lives and their pasts. Based on my short-story “Flowers for Vases”. Winner of the Cité-Live Script Competition (Moncton) 1984.

Featuring the music of Rita MacNeil. A musical based on the life of legendary Canadian singer/songwriter, Rita MacNeil. Flying On Her Own tells the story of a young girl growing up in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, who realizes she will never be happy without music in her life. The play traces her journey from abused child to unhappy wife and feminist activist, from single mother on welfare to a woman who finally finds inner peace and contentment through her music. This is a story about perseverance and the power of art to sustain us. Published by Playwrights Canada Press, 2006.

​When Maëllie chooses to leave Fredericton to join her lover in Nunavut, her friends will come to her home to have a last night together as a group. Feeling the end of their friendship approaching, and captive of a heat wave that strikes New Brunswick, this group will explode in a stifling atmosphere behind closed doors. 

Five patients, attempting to cope with life in a city, learn about themselves and challenge their therapist and his approach to helping them. Both one- & two-act versions available.

​This is a light comedy set in a Halifax Wrens’ recruitment office during WWII.  The Wrens were established in Halifax in early 1942 and attracted women and girls from all walks of life; farm girls, debutantes, students and factory workers.

Officer Leonard is a stickler for the rules, but welcomes a dithering Officer Clark as her assistant, just as long as Officer Clark remembers to begin each sence with ‘Officer Leonard’ when she is addressing her.

Several women pass through their recruitment door one morning.  Most are sent for medicals, but a few are sent packing.

A man finds a strange woman in his daughter’s apartment when he comes to pick her up from university. The woman tells him she is going to commit suicide and he is forced to deal with her and his relationship with the absent daughter. Won First Prize, Theatre Prince Edward Island’s 1995 Playwriting Competition, One- Act Play Category. Based on my short story “A Handsome Leading Man.”

When a guy on the cusp of his 30th birthday, directionless and still not sure what to do with his life, hits the highway in Northern Ontario, he commits to keep on moving until he gets somewhere. The characters he meets on his travels however, won’t let him escape the question, “Who are you, and where are you going?” Contains strong language, cigarette smoking and one really loud scream. “…reminds one that good theatre doesn’t require a Garth Drabinsky.” Jennifer Ball, Ottawa Revue, June 1999

A loving parody of Psycho that mixes big fights with big laughs. Rusty Gates is obsessed with the movie Psycho and just happens to run a place called ‘Gates Motel’. Throw in a terrific thunderstorm, a nervous heroine, an itchy fingered detective and a philandering husband and your’re in for an action packed evening.

Two best friends, Hal and Sal – one from the right side of the tracks and one from the wrong side – discover the lives they have been leading may not be the ones they were meant for. Nominated for a Merritt award in the category of playwrighting in 2003. Nominated for a Nova Scotia Merritt Award in 2004.

Two sisters try to keep their telepathic gifts a secret from both friends and family while they rescue a kidnapped child

Story of an ill-fated love between a wandering musician – social idealist – and a Cape Breton coal miner’s daughter whose sense of her culture and roots are re- awakened by their passion. Nominated for Governor General’s Award 1997.

​When Marg registers for the local Glamorous Grandma and Grandchild Competition, Nancy, the star-struck organiser, mistakes the baby’s name and believes she is the daughter of someone famous.

A comic tale of the unruly heroes of a little log school house in Glengarry County. The dreams of youth unfold against the stern expectations of Highland Presbyterian parents, amid the riotous free-trade election of 1878. Based on the novels of Ralph Connor.

An evocative parable of crashing into the unknown and accepting the unknowable, God’s Middle Name is a compelling tale of one mother’s journey through the uncharted territory of raising an autistic child.  Along the way are flights of fancy and an abundance of humour, told in non-chronological snapshots in different story styles. Written with unflinching honesty, sensitivity, and a lightness of touch, this powerfully moving show explores the struggles and celebrations of the many challenges life throws in our path. Written by the author of

Set several decades into the third millennium, the world is now divided into those who have seen God, and exist in a blissful state, and those who have to monitor the existences of those who have seen God. Based on my short story “God’s Work.”

A man, near a leafless tree on a country road (setting & time as in Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”) contemplates the strangeness of his life as he awaits Godot’s arrival. Based on my short story “Godot’s Leafless Tree.”

A 1-person play in which a successful, yet deeply troubled, 51-year-old criminal lawyer, preparing for the defence of a murderer, confronts different people and events in his life and past. subtitle: My Father Gave Me Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” for my Twentieth Birthday. Based on my short story (same title).

Based on the fairy tale ‘The Golden Goose’ our story follows the antics of one little Jimmy Vinegar in his attempts to save the last cod fish that swims in the waters of Newfoundland.

Based on the classic Grimm Bros. tale. Queen Ysabel of Oldmark sends her daughter, Princess Jorinda, to marry King Ferdinand of Eastphalia, in order to seal an alliance between the two kingdoms. Elsa, an ambitious and devious maid in waiting, leads Jorinda to believe that her future husband is ill-tempered and ill-favored, and convinces the princess to trade roles: Elsa poses as the bride, and Jorinda is given a position as a lowly goose girl. Ferdinand, of course, proves to be neither ill-tempered nor ugly, but Jorinda can’t confess the truth, for fear of endangering the alliance.

There’s an air of intrigue in the departure lounge as five lives unravel while waiting to board their delayed flight. By the end of their “stay” all of them experience a change in plans … but only some by choice. Who are these people really?

In 1878 Amherst, N.S., an 18-year-old girl, Esther Cox, was possessed by an evilspirit that controlled her body and terrorized a household and an entire town. This dramatization is based on events that were witnessed by hundreds of people.

​We meet Julia -pregnant, heartbroken, soaking wet-  locked in conversation with her fractured self and reliving the memories that led her to this point. Running through her mind are questions of identity, sexuality, and ownership of the self. Again and again we circle back to the single image of her at the top of a great staircase and wondering whether this is it.

Set in the late 1980s, two women, a mature student and a wannabe fashion designer/store clerk, are trapped in a university library overnight.
Co-written with Ilkay Silk and Elizabeth Goodyear.

A 3rd-year law student is visited by his fraternal twin sister and her current lover, a pro wrestler. Based on my short story “Propeller-Whirl Romulus & Gyration the Perpetual-Motion Dream Doll; 2nd prize, Theatre PEI 1997 Playwriting Competition, one-act category.

​For half a century, the Sydney Steel Plant produced the finest steel in the world. Men and women from 32 nations travelled to Cape Breton to work at the plant. But when WW2 calls our young men away, who will step up to take their place?
Based on true events and interviews, this new musical comedy sheds light on a Canadian powerhouse of the industrial age and the first step towards women’s rights during the total war of 1939.

​For half a century, the Sydney Steel Plant produced the finest steel in the world. Men and women from 32 nations travelled to Cape Breton to work at the plant. But when WW2 calls our young men away, who will step up to take their place?
Based on true events and interviews, this new musical comedy sheds light on a Canadian powerhouse of the industrial age and the first step towards women’s rights during the total war of 1939.

​When a man arrives at the gates of heaven, he accuses St Peter of being out of touch with the modern world.  When the man suggests St Peter should go down to earth for a visit, St Peter isn’t keen on the idea.  Besides, who will do his job while he’s away?

A Montreal artist, a retired PEI farmer, & a young PEI playwright discuss living on the Island, creativity and the past during an evening of drinking in a Charlottetown bar. Based on my short story “The Heart.” First prize Theatre PEI 1986 Playwriting Competition one-act category. Published in Quarry 37.2 (1988).

Ida-Mae HacHine, a rural woman looks back on her life, almost all of which has taken place in and around this barn. Not for the first time, she considers leaving. Her only companions for this monologue are the last of her husband’s cows and the eternal presence of the barn.

A play about the ethics of reproduction in a polluted world.

Historical drama set during the 1750s on the Tantramar marshes.

Music and Lyrics by Dean Burry. Using the structure of a hockey game and featuring fifteen original songs, Home and Away tells the story of one family whose lives have been shaped by our national game. A family that eventually discovers hockey isn’t the only thing holding them together.

​Home is My Road examines the role of international adoption in the cultural genocide of the Roma (gypsies) of Europe. Two Canadian women trace parallel routes in Romania in 1991. Grace is desperately trying to adopt a baby wile Esme is searching for her birth mother. Their lives intersect with a Roma family struggling for survival in the aftermath of the post-communist revolution.

A federal election is looming and MP Jack Strong is in trouble. Only six days left before party nominations in his district and the polls say he’s finished. Not without a fight says Jack! Break out the knives, watch your back and wrap yourself in the Canadian flag as this honourable member hits the campaign trail.

A sweeping epic dealing with the lives of Isadora Duncan, Scott of the Antarctic, the poet Sergei Yesenin, and the designer Edward Gordon Craig.

​Having been told he’s going through the male menopause by a young female doctor, Trevor dismisses it all as ridiculous rubbish until his wife reads him the symptoms from a magazine.

​How Do I Love Thee? is a play about love: the love of poetry and the poetry of love, from the perspective of two of the world’s most celebrated poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The play traces the sixteen year are of their courtship, elopement and marriage, ending in Elizabeth’s death due to opiate addiction.

A play based in Woodstock, NB. Four friends wait for people to show up at their apartment for a party, and discover why they like hanging out with each other.

2 artists discuss the meaning of art and their own artistic visions in a washroom.

A man attempts to break into a mental institution in order to save the woman he loves. Based on my short story “In Becky’s Name”.

At the apex of a suicide jump; at the moment where up is about to become down, time freezes and the normally reliable laws of motion and matter dissolve. The jumper, Atom, begins the play at this “invisible pinprick of time”, suspended in this strange perversion of time and space that places him in front of a group of what he imagines to be the “gods”. He has been granted this time to reflect on his life and explain what brought him to this point. Abandoned at birth, raised in foster homes, Atom calls himself a “success story”. He has managed to get a good business education, a very intelligent girlfriend and a son and until very recently worked at a prestigious stock brokerage firm. He is now unemployed and eventually divulges that he and a co-worker are the only survivors of a recent famous bombing of high profile office tower. This brush with the end of the world throws him into a depression and causes him to question fundamental principles of how the world works. This questioning leads down two thematic roads. One is a questioning of assumptions about market capitalism as the fuel behind human progress, and the other is a questioning of the value of scientific advancement. All of which lead him to question his own life and the value of his own existence. His metaphysical unease causes him to embark on an intense and fantastical search for his identity, running away from home and family into an imaginative journey that leads him to his extraordinarily wealthy and comically cruel father, Zepheniah Adamson, in London, England. Rejected by his father after a brief and fruitless encounter, Atom returns home to his girlfriend and son, but something is different. He can’t define his unease and sinks deeper into his depression, and delusions. He invents an unlikely family history tracing back in time through ten generations of bastards, beginning with the founder of classical physics, Isaac Newton and his bastard son, the moral philosopher and economist Adam Smith, largely credited as the father of capitalism, through generations of bastard bankers, soldiers, monopolists, rapists, and merchants. Atom considers himself the product of ten generations of bastards and bastardized ideals to be the living metaphor for the oncoming destruction of the world: Atom: “What Newton had done for science, Smith did for economics. If Newton was the key-stone of the scientific revolution, it was Smith who built the bridge to the industrial revolution. Then, through the rise of market capitalism, mankind’s ambition was unleashed; and his ability to harness the mechanical forces of the universe was multiplied by the achievements of science. And these multiplications have been coupling with industry which has itself been multiplying exponentially and this… has been the fuel behind our acceleration. Towards the end. When we destroy ourselves. When the laws of nature breakdown. And the physical and emotional forces that dictate the way we live our lives no longer apply.” As he hangs in mid-air off the bridge, he sees himself reflected in the judgement of the gods, realises that by abandoning his own son, he is only repeating a family pattern, and pleads for his life, which he realizes too late was his to own or discard.

Written with Berni Stapleton and Amy House Humourous look at the connections, historical and cultural between Newfoundland and Ireland. Nostalgic recollections, folk legends and straightforward Newfoundland humour. Suitable for dinner theatre, cabaret, or straight theatre production.

A text collage which uses the text of the Jailer’s Daughter from Two Noble Kinsmen as a spine on which to create a portrait of love addiction in a modern age. Combining diverse texts – pschoanalytical text, harlequin romances, poetry, aphrodisiac recipes, etc, the play also includes text from a fictional online diary which Sara Tilley kept for one year under the character’s name, JD. Love, lust, madness, suicide. Chocolates and candy and perfume and flowers. Brief nudity.

To the surprise and delight of her father, Jessie returns home unexpectedly four years after losing her mother in a car accident. She’s made a big decision and wants her father’s support.

A dark and stormy night in an isolated lighthouse on the west coast of Vancouver Island. A lighthouse keeper, his wife and daughter, a mysterious love interest and a determined mountie from Newfoundland. Set at the turn of the 20th century.

The story of Sgt. Tommy Ricketts of Middle Arm, White Bay the youngest soldier in the British Empire to ever be awarded the prestigious Victoria Cross. The poignant and heartfelt portrayal follows Ricketts life as a young boy in Middle Arm through his traumatic experiences in World War I to his later years in St. John’s.

A teenager’s experiments with drugs, especially alcohol, lead towards addiction and the rejection of the help of family and friends.

An adaptation for the stage, based on the second novel of Herb Curtis’s Brennan Siding Trilogy. A young man learns the value of community, family, history, and love from a former school teacher, while his parents learn the same lessons.

An ex-convict, with a history of violent behaviour, suffers from hearing the words of others in his head. He tries to deal with his turmoil in a way that challenges his psychiatrist’s personal & professional life. Based on my short story “Laugh for Sanity”. First prize Theatre PEI 1997 Playwriting Competition, one-act category.

The struggles of the Brennan family in Ireland in 1835 are reflected in their descendants in PEI. You cannot escape family ghosts even by crossing an ocean.”…engaging and touching scenes…” Theatre PEI Newsletter

Two young government employees from “away” with a modern/traditional mixture of ideas and values move in with a conservative Island family and stir up latent and long-submerged feelings and emotions. “Miss it and you’ve missed something special.” CBC

A man visits a mysterious, omniscient woman in her room and is forced to confront his past, along with the deceptions and lies of his life. Based on my short story “Diogenes’ Lantern.” 2nd prize Theatre PEI 1987 Playwriting competition.

Timothée de Fombelle’s Le Phare was first produced in September 2001 at Théâtre du Marais in Paris. The play won the Prix de Souffleur 2002 and the prize awarded by Journées d’auteurs de théâtre in Lyon. Don Hannah’s English version, based on a line translation by Glenn Nichols, was commissioned by the Banff PlayRites Colony in 2004. The Lighthouse is a very moving one act play; a lovely piece for a young male actor. A boy lives on an island where his father keeps the light; events lead him to question his very existence. The language is beautiful, the imagery mysterious, and the boy’s story, intriguing and heartbreaking.

​Lily, continually present on stage upstage left in a very small set, is an Alzheimer’s patient living in a nursing home.  During a series of flashbacks spanning 60 years, the audience gets to know Lily through a character named Memory and share her life journey. Using metaphor, music and light it is a play carefully crafted to explore the theme of losses in ways that are humourous, painful and profound.

It’s a stormy March day when Jean MacMillan’s two daughters arrive in preparation for her move to a nursing home. It’s their last pyjama party together and what emerges tests the lines between sanity and senility, life and death, especially when Dad, dead for twenty-five years, has a say in the matter. Funny when you least expect it, packing up the family memories has never been so revealing. “A profound and potent piece of theatre.” Robin Waples, The Sault Star, March 4, 1999

Hope fantasizes about having a normal family – one that doesn’t feature sadomasochism, cynicism or depression. But, when her family suffers a terrible crisis, Hope’s fantasies show how love and faith can help keep them together. Nominated for a Merritt Award in 2003.

The story of the legendary Nova Scotian giantess, Anna Swan and her adventures in the company of PT Barnum’s American Museum in the 1860s.

A 53 year old Lucien in looking ahead to retirement and is taking a test drive by going on his first-ever Florida vacation.

A one-man show chronicling the life and times of a north shore mill worker during a graveyard shift.

The sequel to Lucien, A Labour of Love in Two Acts, premiered by Theatre New Brunswick in October of 1993. The protagonist has bought into Frank McKenna’s model of an ideal New Brunswicker, by taking over a down and out bar, The Wooden Squirrel.

Adapted from 3 texts by Frank Wedekind: Pandora’s Box, Earth Spirit and The First Lulu. LULU tells the story of a young woman’s rise to fame, riches and a constant bevy of admirers, and her transformation into a murdress, a convict, a cholera victim, and her eventual end as a prostitute on the streets of Paris, under the sway of a man named Jack with a large butcher’s knife. Brutal observations on sexual politics meet a surreal, shocking and circus-like universe of strange characters – schoolboys, strong men, morphine addicts, choreographers, painters, foreign princes, lesbian countesses, all of them obsessed with attaining Lulu, most of them driven to death as a result. This script retains the original spirit of the original Wedekind texts while modernizing the language and streamlining the story through amalgamation of minor characters and scenes into one 2-act play.

A family struggles with the loss of one of their own in small town New Brunswick. A play about the risk of living and the risk of loving.

Based on the short story by Yann Martel, Manners of Dying is nine variations on the hours leading up to man’s execution.

​The trials and triumphs of the Saint-John-built Marco Polo’s record-breaking sailing voyage to Australia.

Set in famine-stricken St. Ann’s, Cape Breton in 1851, the play depicts the fiery dissident Presbyterian minister, Rev. Norman MacLeod, who persecutes those who disagree with him, especially a small boy with second sight. The mythological figure of the reverend thunders through the play. The play is full of Gaelic song, powerful drama and romance

Upon hearing that her father has had a lung removed Maggie returns home to the Maritimes. She finds her proud father still working in a mine that closed two years ago, her brother Donnie “working” at the video lotto and her wheelchair bound grandmother unable to speak anything but the “old language.” This is the other side of Black Harbour and The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum. Nominated for best new play at the 2000 Canadian Comedy Awards; published in Marigraph, an anthology of Maritime plays.

A 28-year-old woman, dressed as a man, tells the story of her marriage to a tall 37-year-old woman, and the reactions of the people to them and their marriage. Based on my short story “Marriage Vows.”

​Adults tells the story of two Nova Scotian teenagers as they struggle to reconcile their broken relationship and grapple with their impending futures as adults. A contemporary response to Salt Water Moon, this play takes a simple yet raw look at first love and unabashedly explores their relationship, asking what it means to be a “mature young adult” in our age of over-saturation and antiquated ideas of gender and sexuality.

​This play is a historical drama highlighting the humanitarian and nursing career of Nova Scotia native, Sara Corning. We encounter the elderly Sara in her family home in Chegoggin, Yarmouth County, where she faces the prospect of being moved into private care by concerned relatives who feel that she is no longer able to cope safely on her own.  Now, at age 90, Sara is no longer in control of her own destiny, decisions are being made for her; a role reversal.  Sara rails against this perceived injustice to an unseen visitor, as she recalls key moments from her career in an attempt to prove her competence. Each recollection is triggered by an object in an old suitcase with which she travelled throughout the Near East. Once strong and resilient, she has spent a lifetime caring for the victims of violence and calamity; from the the Halifax Explosion (1917) to her decoration by King George II of Greece (1923) in recognition of her extraordinary acts of bravery and selfless service to a nation’s most vulnerable citizens during the Armenian Genocide. Sara draws from her memories of the resilience of the many children she saved and thereby comes to terms with her circumstances. 

Based on the life of Canadian author Elizabeth Smart, the play examines the struggles of being a mother, a lover and a writer.

Tom Woolrich, age 42, father of three, husband, son and steelworker, liked his life just fine until “the system” yanked his job out from under him. Now Tom, emotionally paralyzed, has retreated to his lazy boy chair with his memories, his beer fridge and reel to reel of 70’s rock and roll to try to face his greatest fear: change. “..a humour that sets off the secret inner chuckle of self-recognition and discovery that cuts too deeply to allow a belly laugh. A brilliant script.” Hugh Fraser, Hamilton Spectator, Jan 24, 2000

An ordinary married couple living in an ordinary house discover how little they know about each other and how frightening ordinariness can become. First prize, Theatre PEI 1990 Playwrighting Competition, one-act category. Based on my short-story “The Mirage-Keeper”.

​Evelyn MacMillan, wife and mother of three, vanishes without a trace from her farm in Southern Ontario. When Detective Carol Seaforth is brought in to investigate, the town is turned upside down to uncover the truth behind her disappearance. As Carol grows closer to Evelyn’s husband and withdraws from her own marriage, long hidden secrets bubble to the surface, eventually bringing the investigation to a diner on the outskirts of London Ontario. Missing is a play that asks the question: how much do you ever really know another person?

​Long lost mates, Malcolm and Craig, bump into each other in a bar one afternoon.  Craig thinks Malcolm has it all, a model girlfriend and plenty of money to buy a Model T car.  But all is not what it seems, with comedic results.

​Ben’s friend is having problems with Ben’s friend’s best friend’s boyfriend. Confusing? Just wait. This darkly comedic one-act asks serious questions about modern relationships while challenging our assumptions about the complicated subject of ‘abuse.’

Tarzan Mazerolle is a pregnant man. But he is “pleased as punch” to be carrying his wife’s baby dispite the physical and mental upsets he didn’t expect. Translation from Acadian of Gracia Couturier’s ” Mon mari est un ange.” Published in “Angels and Anger” PLCN 2003.

​Set in a local store in the year 1948, ‘Ned’ is a comedy about a mysterious parcel that arrives at the post office for the local hermit.  Word soon gets around about the parcel and the locals are mystified as to what it contains.  As Ned hasn’t left his home in 10 years, a crowd gathers in the store awaiting his arrival.

4 actors deal with their personal captivities as they get ready for another performance of Sartre’s “No Exit”.

Canadian teenagers take action when they learn of the hardships suffered by thirteen year old Sheena, who makes their fashionable brand-name clothing in a far-away sweat shop.

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A solo clown show in which Princess Nosebleed, incarcerated for Crimes of Impropriety not suitable for princesses, awaits rescue by the dashing and dangerous Prince Romeo Charming, from Hull, Quebec. This show deals with serious themes of mental illness, racism, sexual politics, eating disorders, and self-esteem in a completely hilarious, irreverent and engaging way.

The eccentric ghost of Glenn Gould bestows the gift of musical genius on newborn Kyra. As the child grows up, she is torn between the demands of her piano and her desire to be a “normal teenager”. Chalmers Award Nominee 2000.

Objects is a mid-century, one-room drama centred on archeologist Helen, her husband, her friends, and the secrets and miscommunications surrounding them. From ancient artifacts to nearly modern misconception; meditations on marriage, sexuality, and the ownership of one’s work and intellectual property.

A nurse goes north to work on an Indian reserve and comes face to face with her own racism and cultural wasteland.

​Angus, an old boatbuilder, mourns the recent death of his wife. A conversation between Angus and his friend Doc reveals old secrets and challenges their relationship. Will the friendship survive?

A 49-year-old woman meets an unusual, seductive 31-year-old man. Her use of language makes him view his unsatisfactory life differently than he has in the past. Based on my short story “Make-Believe”.

​The true events of Canada’s most daring suffragist, Gert Harding.

1912. Twenty-three-year-old

Gert Harding, from rural New Brunswick, has just arrived in London, England, as companion to her sister Nellie, married to the wealthy Dr Ernest Waterhouse. Nellie is like a mother to Gert.

Gert, atop a double-decker

bus, witnesses her first poster parade of militant suffragettes, demanding the right of women to vote. Her older companion, Bessie, explains about the movement then reveals the pin she got from the WSPU, the militant organization, when she was released from Holloway Prison after breaking windows for the cause. Gert’s worldview turns on end.

Gert, now a member of the

suffragettes, is about to take part in her first poster parade. Lilian Lenton, parade organizer, treats her with disdain, assuming that the well-dressed new recruit is in it for shallow excitement, like so many. Gert defends her intentions. But as Lilian regales her with details of prison rats and lice and government torture by forced-feeding, Gert’s nerve falters. Still, she picks up her heavy poster and goes off to join the parade.

Gert returns home from the

parade covered in rotten fruit. She tries to sneak in but can’t get past Nellie, who is shocked and scared by Gert’s admission. They know too well what Ernest will do. Soon in walks the man, triggering the argument and showdown Gert had hoped to avoid. Gert defends militancy but adds that many members, herself included, do not themselves enact the violence to property, serving in other ways.

He says that she must quit this loathsome group anyway, or she will be banished. Nellie, furious at Gert for risking so much, agrees with the demand. Gert says simply that she must remain a suffragette. As Nellie stomps out, hiding her fear, she tells Gert that if, after one month, Gert still agrees to not enact violence, she’ll be allowed to visit them, her only family this side of the Atlantic.

Gert’s next assignment is

to stand guard for Lillian Lenton, assigned to attack rare orchids at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. As Gert and Lilian await the right moment for Lilian to break into the orchid house, they debate the ethics of violence for a cause. Gert’s love for her sister tugs at her to stay on the sidelines tonight. What she can’t ignore is the growing urge, hot as fire, to help change society, to push out the edge of civilization to embrace women as human beings. With Gert standing guard, Lillian bashes in the door of the hothouse and disappears. Soon

an orchid flies out to land at Gert’s feet. As Gert listens to the sounds of

destruction from the hothouse, she slowly picks up the orchid, tucks it in her hair then strides in to join Lilian.

This play is “a monologue presented in the form of ‘Stand-up Tragedy’ as the 20-something protagonist wrestles with the question of faith and faithlessness while trying to contain his rage at the world outside and his inability to emerge unscathed.” Dramatic monologue

Duff Martin boxes for his father, a man driven by the bitter passion to make his son a world champion. Increasingly, Duff is caught between his parents as his father’s drive intensifies and his mother’s concerns deepen. Adapted from a novel by Bruce Graham.

A 47-year-old artist meets the man, now old and wanting to confess his act before he dies, who shot him 32 years before. The entrance of the old man into his life affects the artist’s relationship with his artist daughter and with his art dealer/friend. First prize Theatre PEI Playwriting Competition, full-length category. Winner of Regina Little Theatre’s 2003 National Playwriting Contest.

Pirate Bill Johnston and his dashing daughter Kate lead an unlikely crew of Rebels and Redcoats on a high-stakes chase from Niagara Falls to the Thousand Islands. There’s music and mayhem, action and intrigue at every turn. Full of romance and adventure, The Perilous Pirate’s Daughter is fun for the whole family.

Based on J.M. Barries original story the play remains true to its’ roots. Peter Pan takes Wendy, John and Michael on an amazing ride to Neverland – a world of lost boys and pirates and sword fights and magic…

​A young man, Brett, raises money to go to Business College by working for the summer at a locally owned pizza place: Pop’s Pizza. The owner, Pop (an old family friend), takes Brett under his wing and teaches him the secrets of the pizza parlour profession. However, when Brett  falls for the cash girl, Danielle, he must choose between moving away to live out the dreams of his late father, or following his passion as a singer/songwriter in his Renaissance/Ska tribute band “Antic Disposition”. 

A deep dish romantic comedy about trying new things and trusting the things you love. Minimal cheese.

​Can one ever practice art to the point that they stop being human?

Richard St. Croix doesn’t think so. As a thespian who has lived and worked in theatre literally since the womb, it is the only life he knows. But dedication gets tested when an actor suffers a bizarre psychotic break during a dress rehearsal of Macbeth. With only his wits and the works of Shakespeare to guide him, Richard presses on to make certain his play succeeds – no matter what the cost.

Written in 2013, Play Dead is a comedy that deals with the darker side of creativity and the sacrifices which ensure that true art never dies.

​What’s a city gal to do when she gets dumped, reno-victed, and has zero job prospects? Move to a small town and open a sex shop! Leah Bowman has more experience with emojis than running a business, but she’s got a Masters in Human Sexuality, and a mission to destroy the stigma on female pleasure… The only problem is, her sole customer is a farm granny named Rose, who just wants a job. As bankruptcy looms, Leah is inspired to organize the town’s first Women’s March, dubbed the ‘Pleasureville Pussy Riot’. Orders for hand knit pussy hats pour in! But after the event, Leah’s best friend Ash has their own take on feminism’s hottest accessory, and its exclusion of the trans and non-binary experience. With Leah’s first taste of success comes a bitter truth: Has she already lost sight of her lofty ideals?

Three individuals are involved in a strange version of a baseball game on an otherworldly baseball field.

A deceased professor has left his ashes to a mysterious grad student in Paris, much to the anger of his widow. She is determined to confront the student and get her husband’s ashes back so she can flush them down the toilet. Based on my short story “The Professor’s Ashes”. First prize Theatre PEI 1995 Playwriting Competition, Radio Play category.

A pair of Punch and Judy put on their show-the picaresque adventures of Mr. Punch.

Left only a pair of second-hand boots by his father, and rejected by his boorish older brother, Jack sets out to win the hand of the princess Gwendolyn with the help of his resourceful cat who has gratefully taken possession of the boots. Threats posed by an ogre who lives nearby, the helpless predicament of the royal party as they travel through the ogre’s territory, and Jack’s stumbling attempts to woo Gwendolyn are handled neatly by the clever Puss.

Against the strict pacifist beliefs of his father and the girl he loves, an Amish farm boy enlists in the army during the First World War, and brings about a crisis in his community. Winner of the 1983 Governor General’s Award for English-language drama.

​Was it a whim, or an act of desperation?

Whatever the cause, it propelled Rabbit across the globe to a little city far from the bright lights of Tokyo, in a famously damp corner of Japan. In surroundings that are welcoming, surreal and alienating by turns, she tries to shed her personal history and create a renewed sense of self. Through storytelling, poetry and music, Rabbit takes you with her on her sojourn in the ‘land of the gods.’

A Tragic Farce, Relatively Harmless is a darkly funny, touching play about life, death and the way in which a father’s stroke paralyzes an entire family.

​This play is set around a campfire on a Summer’s evening.  Lisa is pregnant and her boyfriend, Nick, wants them to get married.  But Lisa tells him that she recently discovered her parents never tied the knot back in the 60s and she isn’t happy that they have only been living together all this time.  So when she tells her parents she’s pregnant, she gives them an ultimatum – she and Nick will only get married if they do.

A family is changed when a man, given up for adoption 3 decades before, visits his now married birth mother. Various forms of repayment occur: psychological, emotional, & monetary. Based on my short story “Repayment”. First prize Theatre PEI Playwriting Competition 1997: full-length category.

​A lively and upbeat adaptation of a number of Robin Hood Adventures woven together to create a unified two act play. Alan a Dale, Little John, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck – they’re all here in an entertaining romp through Sherwoof Forest and the castle of the naughty Sheriff of Nottingham!

​This light comedy is set in a munitions factory back room where the ladies are having a coffee break.  The year is 1942 and WWII is in full swing.

It covers war rationing, censoring of letters and soldiers’ rations.  May has baked some cookies, but because of rationing, there isn’t enough to round.  Jean has a date with an American sailor and her friend Bev draws lines up the back of her legs to simulate stockings.  Bren has just got engaged, but her finance has left Halifax to go and fight in the war. 

The ladies fantasise about doing more glamorous work: joining the Army, the Airforce or the Wrens, but they know they are needed at home.

A PEI adaptation of Arnold Wesker’s most famous play of tangled relationships on the family farm.”…brings both heartbreak and triumph…an example of theatre’s emotional power at its best.” Charlottetown Guardian

As timely today as when it opened in 1986, Rubber Dolly is a memory play – gritty, hilarious and tragic – that tells the story of Fern, runaway teenager and single mother.

Set in a radio studio c.1930, the story depicts a group of radio actors and a production crew performing the live radio broadcast of a new adventure serial called “The Rum Runner.”

The emotional thirty year journey of a New Brunswick brother and sister as they move from violence, through anger, towards forgiveness and hope. Requires 1 child actor.

Parks Canada stepped outside the park boundaries and commissioned a comedy with music with the Piping Plover,  Blanding’s Turtle,  Ribbon Snake and  Flying Squirrel as characters. Why? These creatures represent animals and plants which are species at risk (S.A.R.). They are disappearing from Nova Scotia.   

The play has reversed roles for humans and animals. The animal population is very concerned for the future viability of humans. Where are the young adults? ‘Turtle’ interprets the dwindling numbers to mean a ‘die off’ in the twenty-something human population. Nova Scotians will recognize this as the increasing out-migration of young people to other parts of Canada. 

 ‘Turtle’ forms ‘The Society for Humans At Risk Kejimkujik’ (S.H.A.R.K.). Their mission is to study the threatened population and come up with a plan. Not all of the animals agree that anything can be or should be done. Turtle needs more data. She’s convinced that they need some kind of decoy so that they can study the population up close.  When they involve a local hermit, Turtle and Squirrel find themselves transformed into human ‘decoys’ and in an awkward situation. 

There are 5 songs (two are reprised) and a live musician (with musical additions from cast members.)  

The subject of Species At Risk (S.A.R.) is not normally a laughing matter. The question is can people learn about the plight of these threatened animals and about lessening the impact of human activity and have fun? The answer is ‘yes’!

Through story and song, the play explores the issues of change, jobs and the environment. Humans work and play in the habitat of these threatened species. In the 21st century, does sustainable practice for animals mean sustainability for humans? 

A rural Maritime family deals with AIDs.

​Tammy complains bitterly about their differences when Ryan gets down on one knee to propose.

Robert Sommers, Minister of Forests in the BC government is charged, convicted and sent to prison in 1956 for fraud – the only politician in the British Crown to serve time. Was he simply a pawn in a much bigger battle within the sometimes shady world of forests and politics during the Wacky days of Premier Bennett’s Social Credit Government?

Pauline and Kevin give new meaning to the term “sibling rivalry” when their mother’s death brings them and their spouses together for the reading of the will. The sparks begin to fly & culminate in a scavenger hunt for big bucks and family reconciliation.

Two friends, in their forties, a writer and her editor, go to a rooftop cafe overlooking a large body of water for a meal to celebrate their long association. Their differing perceptions of the world and reality turn the evening horrifying.

Two girls prep for a “Ra Ra Rasputin” themed college party when an unexpected phone call changes everything. ​A touching and distinctly modern comedy-drama about death, self-destruction, and the new rules of mourning in the age of Facebook. 

In 1601, a Yorkshire orphan skilled at shorthand is hired by a mysterious stranger to steal the script of Hamlet and inadvertently becomes a member of Shakespeare’s acting troupe. Adapted from the bestselling YA novel.

​Jean is facing an existential crisis. Everything she has ever thought or believed or dreamed is now being put to the test and called into question. Her arrival in the Shed is the catalyst. With the assistance of Walter, a genial older gentleman with a military background and George, a wise-cracking young man who is wise beyond his years, Jean learns to navigate this confusing and desperate time, ultimately with great aplomb. 

​An adult play, Nancy, Frank and Melvyn find themselves stranded on an island in the harbour when their dinghy springs a leak.  Nancy is livid with her husband Frank and blames him for buying the old boat.  Stuck for the night, they light a fire and play a game of truth.  Melvyn shocks his friends when he reveals a secret affair.

A solo show about questioning identity: What does it mean to be a Newfoundlander in Ontario? A girl transforming into a woman? A performer with extreme anxiety? A person who desperately wants to tell their story but isn’t sure they can? Live artmaking combines with solo storytelling to deliver a funny, emotionally powerful show.

Examines the lives and motivations of the nuns who ran a residential school for native children in the 1960s in rural Nova Scotia.

​Heritage, inheritance, betrayal, and the trials of filial love swirl around this tale of the demise of Nova Scotia family grindstone empire.

Co-written with Conor Green, with songs by Andrew Cull Synopsis Samantha and Angie are identical twin teenaged girls with divergent interests and talents. Samantha is a gifted young scientist. Angie has an artistic soul and is a gifted musician. Recently the girls have been fighting and Sam has moved permanently into the guest room. As their parents Ron and Natasha bustle to get the girls to the school talent show where Angela will premiere her newest song, Samantha, complaining of a headache, is stricken by an aneurism. An emergency surgery leaves her unconscious in a precarious state of health, her breathing assisted by machines. As the family reels in shock with the potential loss of their daughter, Angie adopts her sister’s personality, insisting on sleeping in Samantha’s bed, wearing her clothes, and manifesting Samantha’s behaviour, while retaining none of her own distinctive personality. Angie, exhibiting Samantha’s scientific curiosity and aptitude, begins to research her condition, pursuing the surgeon, Ian, with questions about the role of the brain and of genetics in determining consciousness and identity. The family is divided. Natasha, a psychiatrist, finds Angie’s behaviour inappropriate. As the pressure mounts on Natasha, her husband, longing to connect with his unconscious daughter, becomes increasingly convinced that Angie is Sam, while the surgeon who comforts them is at a loss to explain why Samantha’s “act” is so convincing. As Samantha’s health fails, Angie seeks to find a way to express what she is going through and to reconcile the family. When the decision to release Sam must finally be made, the family grieves the loss of their daughter, even as they are given a strange opportunity to say farewell through Angie. As Sam’s body is taken off life slips away, Angie is restored to herself. Soul Alone explores the nature of the soul, identity, consciousness, and reality in the context of a family in shock from a personal tragedy.

2049 and all is not well in Newfoundland! His Lordship, Wif T. Hickey runs Newfoundland with an iron fist from the Coca Cola Government Centre in St. John’s. But there’s hope yet as the renowned Hag (Newfoundland’s very own Trickster) makes a fiery appearance in the home of Eb & Flo Normal hoping to ignite a revolution between the ears!

The Spirit of Aspy Bay takes place on a mountainside in Cape North, Cape Breton in 1976. A young man, Hugh, running from a local fight and his girlfriend at a dance, meets an older man, Murdock Dan MacDonald who is making a pilgrimage up the mountain. Hugh’s girlfriend, a local Cape Breton Newfoundlander lobster fisherwoman, finds Dan’s wife, who met Dan when she came to teach Gaelic children English. Past scenes of their lives are acted out and intertwined. The play includes 5 traditional songs, comedy, farce, melodrama and tragedy. It can be performed without music.

A 1970s, American, “back to the land” couple and their free-spirited daughter battle to protect a beach near their rural home in Nova Scotia from development.

​Take Care of Me is a comedy about dropping babies into the corporate world and the explosive mess feminism made at the office. Sissy’s eyes are opened when she is given no credit on a take over deal, and her husband Fred is blind to her complaints. When Les and Marsha have a baby and Les is the one who stays home, Sissy’s view of the corporate world- and Fred- is forever changed.

It’s a ten year high school reunion, and four people get notes to show up at a special meeting place to learn a truth. They soon realize one of them sent the note, but which one? Many truths are uncovered in their effort to find out.

​A lighthearted look at what can sometimes be a serious subject, this play is about a mother who keeps her husband’s ashes in an urn on the coffee table.  Her two grown up daughters believe it’s tme the ashes were scattered and talk their reluctant brother into helping them persuade their mother to part with them.

​A fast snappy comedy about infidelity with a fun twist.  [Not suitable for children.]]

​Strong-willed and determined Anouk appears from a tent somewhere in the Mojave desert. What happens next is anybody’s guess.

​The struggles and triumphs of early 1900’s coal miners, and how it relates to us today.

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​The main theme of the play is Sandra’s hunt for a boyfriend and Tina tries to help by giving Sandra a self-help book “How To Catch A Man In Six Easy Steps”.  Tina also introduces Sandra to Jack, the First Aid guy.  But Sandra isn’t interested.  She wants Robert.  But Robert is engaged to the gorgeous Pam.

Sandra reads from the book, “If the man you want to catch already has a partner, you have to be devious.”  She laughs wickedly.  “Hmmmm, devious… I think I can manage that.”

This play is a modern day comedy set in a fortune telling tent at a fair.  It’s suitable for most audiences, except young children.  Both Acts are set in the tent, so no set changes are required on stage.

Jim

and Susan are the parents of three girls. Jane, their oldest, is in

love with her hippie-ish boyfriend Brian who is not at all liked by

her protective, down-to-earth father. Darlene, the middle child,

can’t wait to get out of town and “live the life” in the big

city. And Robin, the youngest, is at her best with her sisters or

playing pranks on her friends. For this fishing family, life is

hard, but comfortable, steady and predicable; they are the cliche

Maritime family.

Set

during an incredible true event that took place in Shelburne in the

late 1970’s, a relatively normal night of dealing with Jim’s dad, his

brother, and their neighbours, quickly gets exciting when two

elephants escape from a visiting circus. On this night however,

elephants roaming the neighbourhood aren’t even close to being the

biggest thing happening in this family’s life.

​Five senior citizens are going on a field trip when their bus breaks down, and they choose to wait in a local tavern. Complicated by one senior who punctuates the dialogue with seemingly irrelevant outbursts, another who is learning English through songs and when triggered by a word will burst into song, (totally mixing up lyrics), a back country gal and a five time divorcee, things get pretty heated up when 2 redneck patrons decide to have themselves a good time with the ladies.

​Marjorie Thompson is a single mother working in the male-dominated radio industry of the 1960s and 70s. She has innate musical talent and uses that to rise from receptionist to music director at CKRT. In doing so, she becomes a pioneer in commercial radio and has a profound influence on the North American music scene.

The Girl With the Golden Ear has a knack for picking hits – even from obscure artists – and people clamour to get their songs played on her station. Other radio stations copy her playlists which are full of cross-over hits – songs that defy stereotypes and act as ambassadors between classes, cultures, and races. For her, music is a salve for the soul and she uses it to help ease tensions during a race riot in her city. As her successes pile up over the years, she develops a reputation as a trendsetter who bucks conventional wisdom, often proving just how unwise conventional wisdom can be. Things aren’t always smooth, though, as she is forced to deal with sexism, a changing industry, and government bureaucracy.

The Girl With the Golden Ear is inspired by a real person who has a remarkable talent and accomplished remarkable things, yet in retirement values her privacy and prefers not to be identified. In a blend of fact and fiction, The Girl With the Golden Ear offers a glimpse into a little-known but fascinating aspect of Canada’s history.

​Written for a young audience, the small cast includes a boy.  This story is about an old pirate that comes to life in a dollar store.  Captain Rogers needs the boy’s help, or he will never rest peacefully in his grave.

​Libby, a young teen, is very upset one night and asks her mother to teach her to knit. Her mother, at first thrilled to share this past time with her daughter, is then confused by the dark black and red random patterns Libby keeps producing. As she talks over Libby’s rebellious behaviour with her friends, and further scenes illustrate this, the audience comes to realize that Libby is being abused, and it sounds like it is being done by her Uncle who has come to live with them. The gripping conclusion unravels with threads of denial, disgust, shock and revelation.

​In the face of climate change, environmental angst and apathy, what can a theatre company do?  Put on an eco-logical comedy.   There is nothing funny about global warming, however people are doing the strangest things as they work toward sustainability.   

Sheila and Judy are caught in a neighbourhood upheaval over the ‘greening’ of suburbia. Harold and Sherry have embraced ‘disaster tourism’ – hoping to see the wonders of the world before they disappear.  A new superhero, EnviroGuy appears to battle the forces of apathy.   These are a few of the stops as you join The Last World Tour and take a theatrical journey from Big Bang Theory to Geo-Engineering in 75 musical minutes. The Last World Tour is mixture of story, sketch comedy and great songs.

​Written for children, the small cast includes a young boy.  This story is about an old pirate that comes to life in a dollar store.  Captain Rogers needs the boy’s help, or he will never rest peacefully in his grave.  This story is a longer version of my 30 minute One Act, The Jeddore Pirate.  In this extended, more adventurous Two Act version, young Tom has to go to sea in his wooden dinghy in order to help Captain Rogers.

​Remember that first crush you had in high school? What if you were re-connected with that person 37 years later? Would you still remember the combination to their locker? Phil Gibson is an actuary, a man who knows the odds. He desperately needs a place to live. Bernadette Davis has a room to rent, but Phil is not quite the type of roommate she had in mind. 

​This play is to be performed in the style of an old radio play.  Set in the late 1940s, early 1950s, the story is about a family gathering together for a birthday party.  But the sisters clash and nothing goes to plan; Grandmother arrives drunk, one sister discovers she’s pregnant, one sister discovers love and the farmhand shoots himself in the foot.

A big part of the comedy is the visual spectacle of the sound effects people handling the props.  No electronis are required as all sound effects are manually made; eg. coconut shell halves knocked together to create the sound of horses hooves and an old tyre pushed around a tray of gravel to create the sound of a car pulling up on a gravel road..

​The year is 1938. Eight years after splitting the act, Canadian Vaudeville legends Jimmy and Conrad Wakowski reunite for a one night tribute performance. As the night goes on, the original skits and songs bring old demons to the surface. Jimmy’s ex-wife Caitlyn joins them as painful memories and past betrayals conspire to destroy the attempt to rebuild their shattered relationship. 

This

original musical mixes low comedy with high stakes and heartbreak, played to the tune of an original pastiche Vaudeville score. This fictional lost story, highlighting an oft

overlooked era of Canadian theatre history, sheds light on the present while cautioning against a bleak potential future full of blame and regret. There are also rubber chickens.

​Two lovers who want nothing more than to 

same scoundrel who plans on tearing down the home of two trusty servants. How 

home? Based on traditional scenarios from the Italian style of Commedia dell’

adventure and intrigue, slapstick and chaos. Everything you can hope for in the 

dark woods. Meet us there… at midnight.

Cast size can be adjusted with doubling. There are 3 female characters and 8 male characters. With masks some of those male characters can easily be played by women. 

An anglophone father and daughter and a francophone father and daughter are transported via a Star Wars game to the past where they relive the roots of French/English conflict in Canada. Intended to acquaint anglophone students with the basis of francophone rights. Published in “Flippin’ In & Then and Now” PLCN.

Mercy Hall abandoned her husband and 8 children to follow the path of Henry Alline, a Nova Scotia preacher and mystic. Mercy’s perilous journey towards an intimate communication with God is at the heart of this play with music. Although set at the end of the 18th century, this is a post 9/11 exploration of the need for faith and the dangers of religion.

Eddie Mann’s first life was as a teacher, which he loved. After 31 years, he retired and became a financial adviser, which he hates. That was his second life. As he stands on the sixth floor ledge of a hospital, he is visited by a quirky guy, and after an even quirkier conversation, makes an important decision.

A woman, her rebellious daughter, and her ailing mother (from Toronto) arrive in a small rural village in Nova Scotia. As they tour through the three-storey house that Peg intends to buy, the story of the women who lived in the house unfolds around them.

​”Through My Fat Eyes” is a series of five monologues which explore the varied forces that can sculpt a woman’s self esteem. Whether responding to the play’s humour, disturbing confessions, or thoughtful nostalgia, all audience members, both male and female, will probably find something that resonates with the creation of their own self image.

A conservative middle-aged farm wife rebels when her husband surprises her with plans for a Florida retirement.

A 34 year old mother in 1912 PEI is accused of poisoning her six children. The ensuing trial reveals that abusive relationships were often taken for granted. Based on an actual case.

On Christmas Eve, Rosy and Connor are inspired by their grandma’s stories to seek the 12 strands of wool that will restore the magic of their ancestors. They are helped by a flying mailman! Translation from Acadian of Ivan Vanhecke’s play “Le tapis de Grand-Pre” based on a short story by Rejean Aucoin and Jean-Claude Tremblay. Published in “Angels and Anger” PLCN 2003.

Music and Lyrics by Dean Burry. Part supernatural thriller, part love story, this play tells the story of a young man who finds himself escaping into the fantasy world of werewolves until he can no longer tell the difference between the real world and the one he’s imagined. The music is a dynamic blend of Broadway style show tunes, contemporary pop songs and traditional gypsy styles.

Patricia waits outside her front door for the arrival of the letter, overcome with excitement and unable to move. A celebration of anticipation. 

Two unemployed actors find themselves on a country road in the evening (setting & time as in Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”). The waiting ends with the arrival of a mysterious visitor.

​Two Canadian war-sounder in a convalescent hospital participate in a production of Henry V on the condition they can mount a counter-play to show the jingoistic actor-manager what it was really like in the Battle of the Somme.

Having recently overcome agoraphobia, Peggy has returned to her rural hometown to attend her mother’s funeral. Haunted by memories and her mother’s lingering presence, she begins work on her life, examining her past, why she left, and why she’s returned. 

A historical drama that is startlingly contemporary in its aesthetics, values and theatrical languages, Wonder tells the story of Canada’s first female nuclear physicist Harriet Brooks. 

An astounding talent, Harriet worked alongside the top physicists in the world including Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford – yet she was forced to leave science prematurely due to gender barriers.

Wonder brings this little known Canadian hero to the stage, highlighting the strength and sacrifice of women who defy society’s expectations.

Four high school students, in order to save a woodlot, must decide on the plan of action… finding out what is important, not only for the forest, but for themselves.

A shy, sexually inexperienced young man meets a sexually forward woman at a bus shelter. She is writing a play and he becomes her subject matter. Based on my short-story “The Vocabulary Lesson”.

It’s the tumultuous year that followed the Mackenzie Rebellion, and the future of Canada is at stake. With nothing in common but daggers drawn, two young women are forced to join forces to save their loved ones and their country.

Young Lucy Maud Montgomery’s struggle to become a writer up to the publication of “Anne of Green Gables”, and her conflicts with grandparents and suitors as she demands equality and rights for herself.