Diving
In her imaginative inner world, Viveca can safely impose her male/female and mother/daughter relationships surrealistically on her external life.
Year Printed: 1998
First Produced: 1983 by the New Play Centre, Vancouver, BC.
Running Time: 20 minutes
Acts: 1
Female Cast: 1
The Apple In The Eye
Gemma's attempts to communicate with her husband are repeatedly rebuffed and she survives her unbearable reality by withdrawing into her own fantasy world.
Year Printed: 1998
First Produced: 1983 at the Women and Word conference, Vancouver.
Running Time: 45 minutes
Acts: 1
Male Cast: 1
Female Cast: 1
Islands
Six months after Alli Alli Oh! Now living alone, Muriel receives a visit from her widowed mother and her new fiance. Alli also arrives unexpectedly, and events climax when each woman discovers ways to relate to past events.
Year Printed: 1998
First Produced: 1983 by the New Play Centre, Vancouver.
Running Time: 55 minutes
Acts: 1
Female Cast: 3
Everloving
Three war brides from England, Scotland and Italy travel to Canada in 1945. The lives of the three women and their relationships with their husbands weave together the hopes, fantasies, disappointments and the grim reality of starting a new life in a new land.
Year Printed: 1998
First Produced: by the Belfry Theatre, Victoria.
Running Time: 120 minutes
Acts: 2
Male Cast: 3
Female Cast: 3
War Babies
After twenty years of marriage, Esme, a playwright, and Colin, a war correspondent, are expecting a baby. Fears of middle-aged childbirth as well as the latent male-female antagonism of two decades of living together intensify as the date of the birth draws near.
Year Printed: 1998
First Produced: 1984 by the New Play Centre, Vancouver, and the Belfry Theatre, Victoria.
Running Time: 120 minutes
Acts: 2
Male Cast: 4
Female Cast: 3
Commonwealth Games
A realistic fast-paced examination of the role of the Commonwealth and the patriarchy at the end of the 20th Century. Three people vie for control over the life of a brilliant 16 year-old girl who is being educated at an Ivy League college in the US. (Formerly Blowing up Toads)
Year Printed: 1997
First Produced: 1996 at Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary.
Acts: 2