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JOAN MACLEOD |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Gary Goddard Agency Ltd |
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Plays by Joan MacLeod |
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| 1st Produced: | Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa. | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21943 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | In the play, the cougar appears to embody the precarious and increasingly circumscribed state of nature. Each character relates to nature in a different way, whether it be with distrust, cynicism, awe or longing. The figure of the "Mountain Man," who has abandoned all of his civilized ways, even speech, to live among the animals of the forest, provides a meeting ground between humanity and nature. Like the cougar, increasingly crowded by a rapidly encroaching civilization, he scavenges what preciously little remains of the beautiful animal in all of us. | |||||
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Amigo's Blue Guitar | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21944 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A college student's life is given meaning when he chooses to sponsor Elias, a Salvadoran refugee, as a class project. When Elias arrives, his hosts Sander and his family, learn what it means and feels like to be a refugee and how to relate to someone who has endured such intense personal grief. The warmth and humour of the characters invite us to embrace the situation, be moved by it, threatened by it, and to consider how we would react | |||||
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Another Home Invasion | ||
| 1st Produced: | Taragon Theatre, Toronto | 2009 | ||||
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 | #98202 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | An elderly woman cares for her ailing husband. She has everything under control until a chance encounter with a stranger | |||||
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Homechild | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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 | #47902 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | Homechild is an evocative and tender tale of family bonds, lineage and the endurance of love. It centres on Alistair MacEachern, a crotchety, funny and fearless farmer. For 70 years he has silently longed for the sister he left behind in Scotland. This story unearths the secret and the shame of the 100,000 Home Children sent to Canada from Britain between 1860 and 1930. | |||||
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Hope Slide , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889224117 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21945 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1994 | |||||
| An actress travels back in memory from the present day to the mid-sixties, from Vancouver to the Doukhobor prison outside the town of Hope, the site of a mountain collapse in 1965. Natural disaster becomes a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, and anarchy is examined both as a liberating social force and as a frightening presence in the natural world. | |||||
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Jewel | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21946 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | It's Valentine's Day, and Marjorie reminisces aloud about the loss of her husband on the Ocean Ranger and her decision to begin her life anew | |||||
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Little Sister | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Direct in Toronto | 1992 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889224117 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21947 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | won the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, Theatre for Young Audiences in 1995 | |||||
| Tackling the issues of self-image, weight preoccupation and eating disorders in teenaged girls, Little Sister tells the story of five teenagers - three girls and two boys - who are caught in the web of contradictory messages about how they should look, feel and behave | |||||
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Shape of a Girl , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21948 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Shape of a Girl goes far beyond a simple dramatization of the seemingly inexplicable code of silence and tacit complicity that surrounded the sensationalixed Reena Virk murder in 1997 on which the play is based. It speaks eloquently and compassionately and offers the embrace of trust as the only way out of the circle of violence. | |||||
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Toronto, Mississippi | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21949 | |||
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 | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jhana, a mentally handicapped teenager, lives with her mother and a cheerfully morose poet. Jhana's estranged father - a professional Elvis impersonator - arrives unexpectedly. What follows is an exploration of fragmented identities and fractured understandings. | |||||
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