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A Party Line in Plenty: A Comedy of Errors by John RC Potter
In a rural Canadian community in the early 1960s, a young girl fails to hang up the receiver of the family’s antiquated wall phone properly, miffed that a neighbour is on it and tying up the party line. She then makes disparaging comments about the woman, who is a ‘phone...
The Catering Queen by Alison Lawrence
Welcome to Henderson Tessier McGuire & Smythe’s annual Christmas cocktail party, held at the gracious home of managing partner George Smythe and his lovely wife Buffy. It’s The Catering Gig From Hell. Behind the scenes is Melanie, McKinley Catering’s supervisor, plating up hors d’oeuvres and juggling her career as a...
Short Comings by Londos D'Arrigo
This collection features a trio of one-act comedies. SWEETS FOR THE ENSUITEIn this humorous act, VALERIE, an earthy, middle-aged woman, talks to an unseen man through her ensuite bathroom door. In this monologue, Valerie enjoys a bottle of wine as she paces her bedroom revealing much about herself and her...
A Hard Place (Female Lead Version) by Don Macrae
Marg and her daughter, Leah, and Leah's husband, Michael, have shared the same house for many years. Marg, a once successful university professor and published poet, is recovering, albeit reluctantly, from a stroke she suffered five years ago. She and Leah have never had any kind of meaningful relationship. Today would be a...
A Hard Place (Male Lead Version) by Don Macrae
Bill and his son, Michael, and Michael’s wife, Leah, have shared the same house for many years. Bill, a once successful university professor and published poet, is recovering, albeit reluctantly, from a stroke he suffered five years ago. He and Michael have never had any kind of meaningful relationship. Today would be a...
And Up They Flew by Martha Ross
The time is 1936, the place is Northern England, a weekend in the country house of the Ashburys. Jane Ashbury dreams of being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, from east to west. Her childhood friend, Nora Duckworth, has flight fantasies that are decidedly more eccentric… The...
We All Got Lost by Camille Intson
Five schoolgirls form a sacred storyteller’s club in the thick woods of an impenetrable Northern Ontarian township. Spinning tales among the trees, they turn the forest, and to each other, to grapple with the uneasy transitions of young adulthood. When tragedy shocks the community, the girls are forced to reckon...
Season's Gradings by Tina Silver
Veteran department store employee Jocelyn, 60, is training temporary holiday employee Kara, 35, to work in the Christmas Land section of the store. Unbeknownst to Jocelyn, Kara is an adjunct university professor supplementing her meagre pay by working retail. Unbeknownst to Kara, Jocelyn was once an adult student in one...
Sinkhole (or six ways to disappear) by Adjani Poirier
A heat wave descends upon the city, school’s out for summer and Benita can’t wait to finally relax. But when a mischievous sinkhole cracks open below her apartment building and a beloved community member goes missing, it’s clear that the universe has something else in store for her. While Benita...
Possessions (One Act Version) by Kevin Land
This script is a one-act version of the full length play Possessions. Inspired by a case of suspected demonic possession that occurred in Germany in the mid-1970's, a girl in her early twenties dies during an exorcism and her parents and priest go on trial for manslaughter. Keywords: exorcism, demons...
