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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Playwrights Guild of Canada |
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Plays by Margaret Hollingsworth
Alli Alli Oh | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre, Vancouver. | 1975 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16854 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in a West Coast island farmhouse, this psychological drama offers a deep, disturbing look at the relationship between two women | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Alma Victoria | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nanaimo Festival Theatre, Nanaimo, BC. | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16855 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Set in the 1920's and 30's, the play revolves around Alma Victoria and her 18-year-old lover, who are accused of murdering Alma's husband, the architect Francis Rattenbury. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Apple In The Eye | ||
| 1st Produced: | Women and Word conference, Vancouver, BC. | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Wilful Acts, Coach House Press, Toronto. (Talon Books 1998), 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16856 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | broadcast 1977 | |||||
Synopsis: | Gemma's attempts to communicate with her husband are repeatedly rebuffed and she survives her unbearable reality by withdrawing into her own fantasy world. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blowing Up Toads | ||
| 1st Produced: | Calgary | 1996 | ||||
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 | #16857 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bushed | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vancouver | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16858 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two elderly loggers, one Finnish and the other Ukrainian, seek shelter in a laundromat. They reminisce about their past exploits and make futile plans for sexual conquest. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Commonwealth Games | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16859 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | under the title Blowing up Toads | |||||
Synopsis: | 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) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dance For My Father | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre, Vancouver. | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Play Centre, Vancouver, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16860 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Diving | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre, Vancouver. | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Wilful Acts, Coach House Press, Toronto. (Talon Books 1998), 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16861 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In her imaginative inner world, Viveca can safely impose her male/female and mother/daughter relationships surrealistically on her external life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ever Loving | ||
| 1st Produced: | Belfry Theatre, Victoria | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16862 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Green Line, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stratford, Ontario | 1986 | ||||
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 | #16863 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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House That Jack Built, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16864 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Jack builds a house on the outskirts of Toronto for Jenny, who is reluctant to leave the city. As she adjusts to their new home, their marriage undergoes a frightening change | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In Confidence | ||
| 1st Produced: | Firehall Theatre, Vancouver | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama), 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16865 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In Confidence features two monologues by two women in two different kitchens in two different cities three thousand miles apart - this simple conceit is all Hollingsworth needs to create a complex portrait of a friendship hampered by dark secrets in each woman's marriage | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Islands | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre, Vancouver. | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16866 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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It's Only Hot For Two Months In Kapuskasing | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16867 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman goes to help a friend who she thinks is being abused by her lover. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Making Greenpeace | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vancouver | 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 | #16868 | |||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mother Country | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, ON | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16869 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three Canadian women visit their British mother at her West Coast island home. The reunion crackles with tension as the deceit on which the women were raised is slowly exposed. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Numbrains | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vancouver | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Reference West, Victoria, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16870 | |||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Operators | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre, Vancouver. | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16871 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three women are working a northern nightshift. The probing of the youngest leads to disturbing revelations about the fears and dependencies of the older two. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Poppycock | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Resource Centre, Toronto, ON. | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16872 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three of the most powerful men of the century, Pablo Picasso, Adolf Hitler and Ezra Pound, are examined in relationships with one woman who is featured in each of their lives. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Prim And Duck, Mama And Frank | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16873 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A mother, her two adult children and a mysterious uncle struggle with questions of self-identity, social acceptance and perceptions of reality | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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There's A Few Things I Want To Tell You | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vancouver | 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 | #16874 | |||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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War Babies | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Play Centre, Vancouver, and the Belfry Theatre, Victoria. | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Wilful Acts, Coach House Press, Toronto. (Talon Books 1998), 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16875 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Willful Acts | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889223851 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #16876 | |||
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Writers Show, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Vancouver | 1978 | ||||
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 | #16877 | |||
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Genre: | Revue Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with others | |||||
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