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Jericho Arts Centre, Vancouver

2003

Vital Spark theatre

Playwrights Canada Press, 2005

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Original Playwright - Constance Skinner, based on the 1905 play The Birthright.

The freedom to love. . .to love openly and without shame, how one wants, who one wants. This eternal yearning as old as man - and woman - is given a very north American treatment in Birthright. Set in North Western B. C. frontier in 1905, white missionary Robert Maclean has an ever-increasing foothold of power and influence. Into the swirling melee of shifting power steps Precious Conroy Maclean's adopted daughter. Determined to walk her own revolutionary path for freedom, her actions trigger in others all the prejudices and hypocrisies of the day. Skinner pulls no punches, and her indictment of these prejudices, both native and white, religious and secular, while often couched in humour, touches as many raw nerves as ever.

Jericho Arts Centre, Vancouver

2008

Vital Spark theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Was there ever a femme more fatale than Alma Rattenbury? Ebullient, vivacious, and charismatic, Alma sweeps Rattenbury off his feet. In a few years she, along with a 17 year old servant who is her lover, is accused of Rattenbury's murder. An explosive trial follows at the Old Bailey with both Alma and her lover facing the death penalty. Unlike previous depictions, By Some Divine Mistake focuses on Alma herself. Before that fatal meeting with Rattenbury in the lounge of the Empress Hotel, she lived an adventurous but highly laudable life (receiving the Croix de Guerre for her WW1 work). What causes the spiral down to the dock at the Old Bailey? Her letters and her own, enormously successful, music gives us a clue. Her life is shaped by the aesthetic of the popular songs of the day - and all who become involved with her are molded in their light, and seduced by its appeal.

Jericho Arts Centre, Vancouver

2003

United Players of Vancouver

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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A winter's entertainment based on the entertainments provided by the Austen family for their friends and relatives.

Jericho Arts Centre, Vancouver

2004

United Players of Vancouver

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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A Regency winter entertainment. Meet Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility) dealing with poor Brandon (deemed old, infirm, and definitely past it at thirty-five); Emma matchmaking little Harriet with, she thinks, the perfect man but having it all turn against her, (Emma); Catherine falling for the mysterious and dangerous Mr. Tilney (Northanger Abbey); Maria locking on to the somewhat vacant Mr. Rushworth (Mansfield Park); Wentworth pining (for eight and a half years!) for his beloved Anne (Persuasion); not to mention Elizabeth Bennet trying to cope with the wonderfully odious creature, Mr. Collins (Pride and Prejudice), while all the while looking for that certain Mr. Wonderful (otherwise known as Mr. Darcy!).

Jericho Arts Centre, Vancouver

2005

United Players of Vancouver

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Jericho Arts Centre, Vancouver

2005

Vital Spark theatre

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page

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Yes, all reports are true: gentlemen are very plentiful over here. (Annie McQueen) The year is 1887. The railroad has arrived but the B.C. Interior is still a dangerous place. Rare is the white woman, far less a respectable white woman who works for a living. In steps young, diminutive and proper Miss Annie McQueen of Nova Scotia to take up a teaching post in the Nicola Valley. Seven months later her sister Jessie follows to begin teaching half a day's gallop away. Will they cope with the masculine, tough world around them? The sisters react in very different ways: the one homesick, isolated and censorious, the other revels in the freedom, courting danger at every turn. This is a true story which shows on a political level, how B.C. became Canadianized not through major public political events, or cowboy adventurers, but through the domestic will of individual women challenging an essentially masculine environment that was alien and tough but also free and malleable. On a personal level, it tells a story that is warm, intimate, at times heart-wrenching, but always courageous.