SHIRLEY BARRIE
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Shirley Barrie
Audience |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre Spring Arts Fair, Toronto. | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 1999 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A short comic play ideal for a festival. John persuades a reluctant Jenny to "try" the upcoming show. As they wait for the performance to start, they bicker about his passion for theatre but their fight reveals cracks in their relationship | ||||
Beautiful Lady, Tell Me. . . |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | musicians | |||
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Synopsis: Florence Kinrade writes to her family in Canada from Richmond, Virginia that she is a soloist in the church choir. She is actually a vaudeville performer. Soon after she returns home her sister is murdered. Florence says that a tramp broke into the house and did it. A prosecutor from Toronto is brought in to investigate. | ||||
Brigit Bondfast: Space Scientist |
| 1st Produced: | Straight Stitching Productions, Ottawa tour. | 1998 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 1998 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Comedic Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Brigit Bondfast is a space scientist with passion, pizzaz and a problem. She takes the audience on a wild ride of science and imagination, during which ladders and space ships, vinegar and chocolate cake, hula hoops and hockey sticks all come together in a physical extravaganza as she works out one step in the solution to growing plants in space. | ||||
Bully For You |
| 1st Produced: | Wakefield Tricycle Co | 1979 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Busker uses puppet show to get back at a world which has always bullied and defeated him | ||||
Carrying The Calf |
| 1st Produced: | Straight Stitching Productions, Toronto. | 1992 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 2001 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Four women of different ages and cultural backgrounds meet in a self-defence class for women. Each of the students is experiencing a form of violence in her life. After initial mistrust and misunderstandings, they help each other move towards spiritual as well as physical strength | ||||
Choices |
| 1st Produced: | CBC Radio | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 13 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A teenager uses her diary to help her deal with the myriad of difficult choices she faces in her attempt to survive life at home and at school | ||||
I Am Marguerite |
| 1st Produced: | Summer Theatre by the Bay, Cornerbrook, Newfoundland. | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 1998 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1 musician | |||
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Synopsis: In 1542, 19-year-old Marguerite de Roberval was abandoned by her brother on an island in the straight of Belle Isle for daring to choose love over duty. Having survived 2 and 1/2 years, she hovers between insight and madness, struggling to decide whether to accept rescue and return to France. | ||||
In the Midst of Death |
| 1st Produced: | CBC Radio "Morningside". | 1995 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Radio | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Marion instructs her younger sister in the fine art of growing up as an undertaker's daughter | ||||
Jack Sheppard's Back |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Historical musical | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | May BF performed with up to 17 actors | |||
Notes: Music by I Barnett | ||||
Synopsis: A musical adventure with escapology and sword play, adapted from Harrison Ainsworth's novel, Jack Sheppard, and historical records. A young carpenter's apprentice turned thief in 18th century London, Jack becomes a popular hero because of the way he constantly outwits the corrupt thief taker, Jonathan Wild, and escapes from every jail he is put into including Tyburn. Becoming a symbol of the desire of the people to escape oppression, Jack even cheats the hangman's noose | ||||
Love Serenade |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Currency Press | 1997 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | comedy/drama | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Motion picture plays. | ||||
Madhouse |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Teenage Stephanie hates the fact that she has to help out in the family business - undertakers. It frightens away potential boyfriends for one. Now she has to go to the madhouse to pick up a body in the middle of the night. | ||||
Marguerite de Roberval |
| 1st Produced: | CBC Radio | 1990 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Historical Drama | - | Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Marguerite de Roberval contrived to accompany her brother, the leader of the first French attempt to settle Canada in 1542. Displeasing him, he abandoned her on an uninhabited island in the Strait of Belle Isle where she gutsily survived for nearly three years. | ||||
Pear Is Ripe, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||
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Synopsis: 1830s Paris is rocked by a group called the Saint Simonians who believe in free love and universal education and technology | ||||
Possession |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 1 (percussionist) | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Jane is studying possessions when she hears strange noises. There is a ghost who can only communicate with sound | ||||
Recipe for Christmas, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Caitlin has moved away from her family. The only present she receives at Christmas from her mother is a recipe | ||||
Revelation |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Fringe Festival | 2002 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: It is Judgement Day, John who died at the age of 34, wakes up to find himself buried with an old woman. She claims she is his wife. | ||||
Riders of the Sea |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre of Thelema, London | 1982 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Musical fantasy | Musical | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Ian Barnet | ||||
Synopsis: Two kids stow away on a boat which is dumping a horrible blue goo into the sea. The boat gets mysteriously pulled down to the bottom of the sea by survivors of the lost continent of Atlantis, who have adapted to life under water after destroying their world with technology centuries ago. Billie and Wally have to convince the Atlantans that they're not the polluters and then they have to figure out how to use the resources of the sea to get back home. | ||||
Shusha And The Story Snatcher |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Encore | 1999 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Shusha's bored with her doll, but she gets more excitement than she bargained for when the Story Snatcher steals and eats her new story book | ||||
Straight Stitching |
| 1st Produced: | Straight Stitching Productions, Toronto. | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Borealis/Tecumseh Press | 1991 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Drama with music | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Music by Arlene Mantle | ||||
Synopsis: Immigrant women working in the garment industry juggle the demands of children, husband, relatives and a new and bewildering society as they work for a better future. | ||||
Tripping Through Time |
| 1st Produced: | Workman Theatre Project, Toronto. | 1993 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 9 characters | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A comic journey through the history of the Queen Street Mental Health Centre from 1850 to today, revealing how ". . .this province has stumbled from crisis to crisis never committing itself to a coherent mental health policy." | ||||
What If. . .? |
| 1st Produced: | Straight Stitching Productions (school tour) | 1995 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Adventure | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Shelley's overactive imagination embarrasses her older brother Tony, so he won't take her to play miniature golf unless she does a dare. In the spooky old house, Shelley makes friends with Brad, a boy with one leg, and wants him to come golfing too. Tony angrily refuses to take either of them, then gets trapped in the basement. When Shelley's clever thinking and Brad's skill rescue him, he is persuaded to change his mind | ||||