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SALLY CLARK (1953 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Kensington Literary Representation |
Born in Vancouver, Sally Clark is a critically acclaimed playwright who has been dazzling audiences with her penchant for dark humour, ironic wit, and sharp character portrayals. Her plays, typically presented in a series of short, vivid, and fast-paced scenes, seamlessly combine comedic and tragic motifs to tell the stories of strong and adventurous women. In Saint Frances of Hollywood and Life Without Instruction, she demonstrates her knack for dramatizing the lives of historical figures, providing a feminist re-visioning of what it means and what it costs to be a heroine. Clark has been playwright-in-residence at Theatre Passe Muraille, the Shaw Festival, Nakai Theatre, and Nightwood Theatre. She is also a painter, director, and filmmaker. When she was a resident artist at the Canadian Film Centre, she wrote and directed her award-winning short film "Ten Ways to Abuse an Old Woman." Her novel 'Waiting for the Revolution' was published by Cormorant books in 2010.
Plays by Sally Clark
Jehanne Of The Witches | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | published under the title- "Big Time Women from Way Back When." Playwrights Canada, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7110 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Christianity vs. Paganism provides the backdrop for this play-within-a-play centering on the relationship between Joan of Arc and the reputed mass murderer, Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard). | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Life Without Instruction | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Plus Toronto | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889223479 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7111 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Based on a true story and a real trial, this presents a woman's struggle for freedom, identity and dignity. Artemisia Fentileshi's father, the late-Renaissance painter Orazio Gentileschi, takes the unusual step of having his daughter trained in the art of painting under the instruction of his friend Agostino Tassi. Tassi rapes Artemisia, and is taken to trial by both Artemisia and Orazio, but - as usual - the person really on trial in this rape case is the women, who is politically humiliated and tortured. But this only strengths Artemisia's determination to become an independent woman, artist and painter | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lost Souls and Missing Persons | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889223974 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7112 | |||
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Genre: | Tragical-comical Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | As Sally Clark's first full-length play, Lost Souls and Missing Persons is also an astonishingly complex and accomplished theatrical debut. Using a small cast to portray over twenty characters, the play stretches actors' abilities to their very limits while continuing to challenge theatres to mount an elaborate production requiring crucially inventive set and lighting designs. | |||||
| A housewife and mother goes missing while on holiday in New York City. As her husband searches for her, she becomes a gibberish-speaking street person. Flashbacks of her past alternate with scenes from her present | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Moo | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-88754-476-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7113 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| When the feisty and rebellious Moragh (Moo) meets the intriguing Harry, she decides nothing will ever separate them . . . and Harry has been running ever since. A black comedy about obsession | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Saint Frances Of Holywood | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Canadian Stage Theatre, Toronto. | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889223660 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7114 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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| Hollywood diva Frances Farmer chooses to join the socialist Group Theatre in New York. She becomes incarcerated in a Seattle psychiatric hospital, where she was lobotomized and released as "cured" in 1949. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sleeproom | ||
| 1st Produced: | Platform 9 Theatre | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113180 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Written by Robin Fulford; Sally Clark; Daniel MacIvor; John Mighton | |||||
Synopsis: | The mind cotrol experiments of a Dr Cameron | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ten Ways To Abuse An Old Woman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto. | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7115 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A black-hearted look at the relationship between a woman and her elderly mother. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Trial Of A Ladies Man | ||
| 1st Produced: | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, Ontario. | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7116 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Four women get revenge on the "Ladies Man". | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Trial Of Judith K | ||
| 1st Produced: | Canadian Stage Company, Toronto. | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0887544651 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7117 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Roughly based on Kafka's "The Trial." Judith K. finds herself accused of an unknown crime. The harder she delves into the bureaucratic nightmare, the more firmly she is bound by it, and the more obscure the reasons for her conviction become. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wanted | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT | 26 Mar 2003 | ||||
Company: | Nakai Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, Aug 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889225039 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120275 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Many parts- can use more actors | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| It is 1897, and word of gold on the Klondike has spurred a frantic rush of miners to cash in on the riches. But by the time the prospectors arrive, all the claims have been staked. Desperation sets in over the landscape and people will do literally anything to survive. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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WASPS | ||
| 1st Produced: | Factory Theatre Studio Cafe, Toronto, Ontario. | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889223981 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7118 | |||
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Genre: | Comedic Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Val McIntosh, a sane, sensible librarian, marries in haste and repents at leisure. A drawing-room farce for distempered times | |||||
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