A dire medical diagnosis leads legendary Canadian actor and playwright Linda Griffiths to reconsider her artistic career choices. Was it wise staying in Canada to write experimental plays, or should she have gone to LA and made a fortune ‘lolling seductively on the hood of a talking car’? And with time running out, what should she do now? An inspiring story about a fierce, funny, and talented woman who made art against the odds.
Keywords: biographical, history, Canada, Canadian, art, artist, career, serio-comic, death, cancer, illness, inspirational, aging, women, female, female-identifying, older, theater, theatre, actor, writer, writing, playwright, plays, drama, monologue, auditions, audition, breast cancer
Produced by the Alumnae Theatre, Toronto ON, in 2024 and 2025 as part of an anthology of monologues about Canadian women in theatre entitled "Shadows in the Nooks: Spirited Women in Theatre."
Genre: Drama, Biographical, Dark Comedy, Monologue
Acts: 1 (monologue)
Run time: 5 minutes
Suitable for students 16+
Content notes: A swear word is used twice. The character responds to a terminal cancer diagnosis.
Cast size: 1 actor
Female roles: 1
Casting notes: Based on an historical figure, the character is in her late 50s, female, Canadian, white.
