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WENDY LILL (1950 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: 3SG Talent Management |
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Plays by Wendy Lill |
All Fall Down | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20868 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | About modern day witch-hunting. Set in the midst of an alleged sexual abuse case at a daycare centre, the play examines the roots of intolerance and hysteria, and their effects on love | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Chimera | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talonbooks, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78285 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The efforts to regulate stem cell research | |||||
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Corker | ||
| 1st Produced: | Neptune Theatre, Halifax, NS | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20869 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Corker uses the familiar but difficult and treacherous nineteenth century device of representing the family as a microcosm of the nation state. Opening with the extended family's awkward attendance at "Serena," aging flower child of the sixties' funeral, the symbolic conflicts build quickly. Serena's sister "Merit," the hard driving, social program budget slashing female political aparatchik and her husband "Leonard," a lion of free enterprise, are hell bent on dismantling their government's social services by replacing them with a privatized human warehousing system whose track record to date has been the streamlining of the American prison system. But there's a problem: Serena's developmentally challenged friend "Corker," the family's faded and failed country gentleman brother "Galahad," and their octogenarian mother "Florence," all become victims of Merit and Leonard's "success." It is Wendy Lill's great skill as a playwright that actually makes this symbolism work by unravelling it into a devastating con | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fighting Days, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg. | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1985 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20870 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Set in the 1910's, the play follows Frances Beynon's journey into the Winnipeg feminist movement, where she eventually clashes with Nellie McClung over pacifism and universal suffrage | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Glace Bay Miners' Museum | ||
| 1st Produced: | Eastern Front Theatre and Ship's Company Theatre. | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20871 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on the novel by Sheldon Currie | |||||
Synopsis: | A story of the ill-fated love between a wandering musician-social idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner's daughter whose dreams are reawakened by their passion, this is a play of the all consuming brightness of dreams and memory, overshadowed by absantee greed, callousness, and exploitation. A tragedy that is hard as nails, totally unsentimental, yet full of love and humour. | |||||
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Memories Of You | ||
| 1st Produced: | Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg. | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20872 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The life of Elizabeth Smart pivoted on a turbulent affair that produced four children and her one book By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept. When her resentful and drug-ridden daughter Rose comes to visit, mother and daughter confront each other with their own distinct visions of the past. Rose remembers that her father used her mother, Elizabeth remembers that she chose the father of her children, and that she did not regret that choice. | |||||
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Occupation Of Heather Rose, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg. | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20873 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Nurse Rose goes north to work on an Indian reserve. Her adventure turns into a painful exploration of her own fragile cultural heart of darkness | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sisters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ship's Company, Parrsboro | 1989 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #20874 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | A tough uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. The soul destroying devastation caused by these institutions from the point of view of the nuns running the school. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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