n/a

n/a

Universite du Quebec

1973

La Troupe Brin'si

Simon & Pierre

1978

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Play/Drama

3

3

-

Notes: -

Synopsis: The play portrays three couples and the myriad games they invent to pretend they are having a marvellous time

University of Alberta

1963

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto

1985

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Adaptation

One Act

3

-

-

Notes: Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst

Synopsis: Two brothers worry about a dangerous highway. They petition for action, and the very man they petition becomes a victim of the road's lethal curve. The play deals with ethics and moral responsibility

Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal.

1981

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Samuel French, NY

-

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Adaptation

2

-

-

Notes: Original Playwright - Slawomir Mrozek

Synopsis: two immigrants in discussion on New Year's Eve. Politics and philosophy between intellectual a and ditch digger

-

-

-

Les editions Leméac, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1976

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translation

Farce

4

-

-

Notes: Original Playwright - Andre Simard. Translated by Henry Beissel & Arlette Francière

Synopsis: -

Char-Lan Theatre Workshop, Williamstown, Ontario.

1975

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Canadian Drama

1975

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play for young adults

One Act

3

2

-

Notes: -

Synopsis: A play for young adults. Ricky, a teen-ager, wakes up to find there has been a revolution and he is now Ruler of the World, with his father Field Marshal and his English teacher Secretary of State. After a series of mind-boggling adventures,, he is mercifully returned to his own bed and-his own life when his alarm clock rings

University of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

1990

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PAJ

1989

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Translation

4

4

-

Notes: Original Playwright - Tor Age Bringsvaed. Written with Per Brask

Synopsis: A parable about the dehumanization of the modern world

Montreal Theatre Lab

1976

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto

-

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Play/Drama

4

3

-

Notes: -

Synopsis: The aged Spanish artist attempts a self-portrait and is forced, through a series of flashbacks, to take stock of his own life

-

-

-

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto

1985

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Adaptation

One Act

3

1

-

Notes: Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst

Synopsis: A woman begs an oriental Emperor to return her husband, one of his soldiers. With strong Brechtian overtones, an argument ensues between the wife, her supposed husband, and two office

Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal.

1982

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto

-

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Translation

3

4

-

Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

Synopsis: A lucid and strongly Canadian translation of the Ibsen classic

Unproduced

-

-

Improvisations for Mr. X & The Noose, Cormorant Books

1989

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Tragi Comedy

Tragedy

4

2

-

Notes: -

Synopsis: A modern Everyman is forced to confront the moral abyss into which his life has fallen when a theatre troupe picks him from the audience to improvise a play about himself.

The Stratford Festival, Canada

1973

-

Playwrights Co-op, Toronto

2001

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Play/Drama

5

5

puppets

Notes: -

Synopsis: lnook, an Eskimo boy, sets off with his father in search of the sun to save his family from starvation. They meet a bear and the father is killed, nook, after killing the bear, meets various spirits which aid, scold, menace and admire him. A chorus of giggling seals provides comic relief as nook journeys under the sea. After solving 3 riddles, nook finds and marries the sun. A play for children and adults, combining poetry, fantasy and reality

University of Winnipeg

1985

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Improvisations for Mr. X & The Noose, Cormorant Books

1989

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Drama

One Act

1

-

-

Notes: -

Synopsis: Mike has a confrontation with his twin brother who has hanged himself and has left a tape explaining the suicide

-

-

-

Mosaic

1987

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-

-

-

-

-

Notes: -

Synopsis: Eugeniou piles on the agony. His central figure, Tina, has been wrenched from her immigrant Cypriot parents by the social services on grounds of emotional abuse". Reared by foster parents, an underage, psychologically wrecked Tina gives birth to a daughter, Rosie, and chooses to kill herself rather than yield her child to intrusive social workers. And when Rosie grows up and finds her groom has been accidentally killed on the eve of her wedding, she takes her own life and that of the twins she is carrying in her womb. It's a grisly family saga, but that doesn't make it a classical drama. In Greek tragedy the gods are essentially just in that they represent the laws of the universe; in Eugeniou's version, suicide and infanticide stem from remediable flaws in the social system. And although he accurately conveys the cultural gap between the immigrant Cypriot community and case workers ("We're not English, we're very emotional people," says one of the former), he takes it as a given that intervention is always

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-

-

Mosaic

1984

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-

-

-

-

-

Notes: -

Synopsis: No reader will fail to be touched by the disturbing juxtaposition of images of senseless political violence in Latin America and images of growth and fecundity of spring in eastern Canada. - Gary Geddes

-

-

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MOO

1993

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-

-

-

-

-

Notes: -

Synopsis: An affirmation of faith in the ultimate goodness of mankind, the importance of deep and honest relationships, and the inherent potential in every individual for personal happiness and fulfilment

-

-

-

Cormorant Books

1987

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-

-

-

-

-

Notes: Poems by Peter Huchel

Synopsis: everybody's caught up in a fractured world that they can't even see, what's happening is unfathomable but they have a suspicion, Shepard

Little Angel Theatre, London, England.

1970

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto

1985

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Adaptation

-

-

20 puppets, 1 narrator

Notes: Original Playwright - Tankred Dorst

Synopsis: a marionette play. Napoleon, a lowly dishwasher, possesses a magic trumpet, which brings joy to the world. But it lands him in a series of both pleasant and unpleasant events

Other Theatre, Chicago

1978

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto

-

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Play/Drama

8

2

doubling

Notes: -

Synopsis: The true story of Ishi, the last Stone Age Indian. When Ishi is found outside an Oroville, California slaughterhouse in 1911, an expert deciphers his language and communicates with him

-

-

-

Simon & Pierre

-

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Drama

One Act

4

-

-

Notes: -

Synopsis: The play deals with a group of house painters who are renovating the facade of an Unemployment Insurance Office. A discussion ensues among them about the weariness of their lives and working conditions