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CAROL SINCLAIR |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Carol Sinclair lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and has been a professionally produced playwright since 1980. She began writing on her feet with Second City Revue, and graduated to writing solo for theatres that produce new Canadian work, such as Mulgrave Road and Ship's Company Theatres in N.S., and Blyth Festival, ON. Long time member of the Playwright's Guild of Canada, (formerly Playwright's Union), she's been a member of the Banff Playwright's Colony, and Tarragon Playwright's Unit, Toronto. For many years she's been a member of A.C.T.R.A, C.A.E.A., Theatre N.S., Writer's Federation of N.S., and the Playwright's Atlantic Resource Centre. She was a founding and five year member of the long awaited Nova Scotia Arts Council. Her play, "Sabina's Splendid Brain" is taught at the Universities of Toronto and Guelph. She's been Writer in Residence at St. F.X. University and, with Dalhousie U's Medical Humanities Program, she wrote "Defense de Fumer", which toured Ottawa, Vancouver, Charlottetown, St. John, and Nunavut. Carol has had productions in Toscana, Italy, Galway, Ireland, Perth, Australia, Cape Town, South Africa, London, England, Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, in Cincinnati, U.S.A, as well as in every province in Canada.
Plays by Carol Sinclair
Brownie From Hell | ||
| 1st Produced: | Crow's Theatre at Bathurst Street Theatre | 1993 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32361 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy with music, one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Voice of the Devil, composition, arrangement and accompaniment on piano by Marsha Coffey with lyrics by C. Sinclair | |||||
Synopsis: | Gretchen is a Brownie. She is nine, bad, and dead. She machetes her way through the pop icons and story book characters of the 60's, 70's and 80's that gave her her screwy ideas about what it meant to grow up female. She pleads her case to the Devil, in her eternal attempts to escape Hell. She is finally redeemed by a stairway of feminist tomes that lead her to come back up to Earth. CBC Radio also produced this piece for national airing. | |||||
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Defense de Fumer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre A, Medical Humanities Building, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Sinc Ink with Dalhousie Med | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78783 | |||
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Genre: | Solo comedy, one act, with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Musician | |||||
Notes: | 1920's-50's smoking songs found and played by Aaron Padolsky on piano and CD's | |||||
Synopsis: | One actor portrays all the characters - twenty-eight smokers, male and female, in turn try to justify their smoking habits in defense of the most insidious addiction of our time. Darkly funny and poignant, this play was a commission by Dr. Murray Scott in a medical studies department that believes art and laughter to be essential elements of healing. This stage play was also recorded in part for CBC Radio. | |||||
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Egats Rood | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32362 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Ferry Tales | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ship's, Nova Scotia | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Ship's Company Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78784 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy with music, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1m | |||||
Notes: | 1940's and traditional music found and / or composed by Greg Simm with lyrics by C. Sinclair | |||||
Synopsis: | Compilation of facts, songs, lore and legends around the M.V. Kipawo ferry, on which Ship's Company Theatre's plays are staged. The longest running ferry on the unique Bay of Fundy, the "Kip" represents an era between the Ages of Sail and Steam, when a coal-burning steel-hulled ferry was the key link between the towns and train stations around the bay. Written to celebrate 25 years as a professional theatre and 50 years in the life of a captain and his craft. | |||||
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Firefly | ||
| 1st Produced: | Blyth, Ontario | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Blyth Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32363 | |||
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Genre: | Large cast period musical, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | 2 musicians | |||||
Notes: | 1910's style music composed and arranged by John Alcorn with lyrics by Carol Sinclair | |||||
Synopsis: | A young woman and her town weather the terrific changes wrought by the advent of technology, the emergence of the New Woman, and the devastation of the Great War. This is a love story between woman and man, but also between woman and mother, as they struggle to find room for growth of their gender, room enough for marriage and vocation. | |||||
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Hansel & Gretel and Handsome & Grateful | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bauer Theatre, Nova Scotia | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Festival Antigonish | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78785 | |||
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Genre: | Two comedies with music, one acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 musician | |||||
Notes: | Music composed, arranged and played by Adam Theriault with lyrics by C. Sinclair | |||||
Synopsis: | Two modern adaptations of the Grimms fairy tale, one for children and a parallel satire for adults are played by the same cast. Set in the poverty of rural Nova Scotia, two adolescents battling low self-esteem leave their home, where alcohol cripples their step-mother and dope distances their father, only to find a burned-out rock star named Belladonna with a house of 'candy' she hopes will addict. | |||||
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Idyll Gossip | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mulgrave Tour, Nova Scotia | 1985 | ||||
Company: | Mulgrave Road Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32364 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy with music, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original score composed, arranged and played by Emmy Alcorn and Beth McCormick with lyrics by C. Sinclair, J. Sinclair, and B. McCormick | |||||
Synopsis: | Mad dash comedy about five rural poor women of all ages with nothing in common except nothing left to lose, who form a band and hit the road. Husbands, children, egos and occupations are tossed into chaos as they discover what 'fun' is. Not able to garner any money for their efforts as merely a 'local' act, they pull off a fraud as Torontonian imports by a change of instrumentation from acoustic to electric, in dress, from frump to tramp, and a major change in image of self-worth. | |||||
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Old Boots | ||
| 1st Produced: | Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia | 1984 | ||||
Company: | King's Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32365 | |||
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Genre: | Two hander, comedy, one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Male plays some fiddle | |||||
Synopsis: | A meticulous census-taker tears her stockings and breaks her heel finding an elderly man living in a tree house four miles from the nearest human. His life style fits none of the neat categories on her form. She can find little common ground with him until she realizes that she is also living alone, surrounded in animals, in her case, cats, in a forest of strangers. This set is lively. | |||||
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Presents | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mulgrave Tour, Nova Scotia | 1983 | ||||
Company: | Mulgrave Road Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32366 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy for kids with music, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | males should be musically inclined | |||||
Notes: | Original score composed, arranged and played by Lucky Campbell with lyrics based on found poetry and original lyrics by C. Sinclair | |||||
Synopsis: | A Christmas play for family audiences about brat and her unemployed father, both of whom discover the importance of love over loot when they spend Christmas without Mum, while she gives birth to a baby brother. Elves visit, and wise guys, too. | |||||
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Put Witch in Bottle | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alderney Landing, Halifax, NS | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Sinc Ink with Eastern Front | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32367 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy with music, one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | male part must be musician | |||||
Notes: | Traditional and composed music by Clary Croft on guitar | |||||
Synopsis: | Tribute to Nova Scotian folklorist, Helen Creighton, focusing on the spells, cures, songs and divinations she discovered and meticulously recorded on her giant reel-to-reel, as she tirelessly roamed the back woods of Nova Scotia for decades. Simplest cure: "Put witch in bottle." If not for Dr. Creighton, a culture lost. This stage play was also adapted for and aired by CBC Radio. | |||||
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Riverine | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32368 | |||
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Ruby | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax, NS | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Sink Ink | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78786 | |||
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Genre: | Drama with music, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | musician | |||||
Notes: | 1930's style original score composed and arranged by Paul Simons, played by John Boudreau on piano with lyrics by C. Sinclair | |||||
Synopsis: | Halifax-born dancer Ruby Keeler is honoured as she braves the 'speaks' of New York in the Depression, an abusive 11 yr marriage to Al Jolson, and the vacuousness of Busby Berkeley's Hollywood, before meeting second husband John Lowe and retiring to a peaceful private life raising her children, only to make a Broadway comeback after a stroke, at age 66. Narrated by mentor, Texas Guinan. | |||||
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Sabina's Splendid Brain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Alderney Landing, Halifax, NS | 1997 | ||||
Company: | Sinc Ink with Eastern Front | |||||
| 1st Published: | Signature Press, Winnipeg, MA, Canada., | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32369 | |||
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Genre: | Solo comedy, one act, with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | Musician, must be female | |||||
Notes: | Classic and composed cues by Hilary Brown on cello | |||||
Synopsis: | Hilarious one woman portrayal of analysts Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein in Vienna in the glory days of psychiatric study, where the bywords were, "Publish or perish." The outrageous plagiarisms by both men of this brilliant woman's theories are revealed, based on diaries and love letters between the three now in the public domain. | |||||
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Share | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ship's, Nova Scotia | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Ship's Company Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78787 | |||
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Genre: | Contemporary comedy, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Sound & music cues by Krista Wells and Greg Simm | |||||
Synopsis: | Two couples, unbeknownst to each other, arrive at the same coastal cabin at the same time and weather a weekend hurricane together. Ostensibly very polarized, they all agree that survival is key, and discover that, as humans, we are more closely related than we think. One very lively set. This stage play has also been adapted as a screen play. | |||||
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Square Omelette | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32370 | |||
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Summer of the Handley-Page , The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ship's, Nova Scotia | 1987 | ||||
Company: | Ship's Company Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32371 | |||
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Genre: | Large cast period comedy, full length, some singing | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | musician | |||||
Notes: | Live choral theme and recorded music cues composed and orchestrated by Marsha Coffey, with lyrics by C. Sinclair | |||||
Synopsis: | This charming and funny romance is based on the true story of the world's largest bomber crashing down in one of the world's smallest towns. Dejected Brit war heroes suffering no serious injury except to pride spend the summer of 1919 in Parrsboro, home of Ship's Company Theatre, making repairs and romance, and setting several world records when they leave. This stage play was also adapted and recorded for CBC Radio and adapted as a screenplay. | |||||
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Young Hate | ||
| 1st Produced: | Noise House, London, UK | 1995 | ||||
Company: | Sinc Ink and Noise House | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwright's Guild of Canada, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78788 | |||
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Genre: | Drama with humour and music, full length, some language | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music is played by the cast on found street junk, composition and lyrics by C. Sinclair | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on true events, a fourteen year old recent Rumanian immigrant to Canada runs away from her adoptive activist mother, and on the street is approached, and raped in a hostel by a Black man. This propels her to seek the solace and protection of a White Supremacist group with branches in 45 countries. For four years she sings at neo-Nazi concerts and does online recruiting for The Front, falling in love by net and phone with a young man she never meets. When she tries to break free of the organization with the help of her mother and the young man, she realizes that the boy she has come to love is Black. This stage play is also a screen play. | |||||
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