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Toronto Fringe Playwriting Contest

2000

Pencil-Neck Productions

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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

political drama

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Notes: came out of workshop environments under the tutelage of Judith Thompson

Synopsis: relies on sexual ambiguity as the trope that pushes its narrative forward. Anil, a South Asian man attacked in a park famous for its gay cruising, and detective Veil a white police officer investigating the incident, It is a tightly woven, suspenseful drama that falls somewhere between Alfred Hitchcock and David Mamet territory. Not only is the sexuality of the two characters deliberately left as an open question, but the balance of power between the two is just as unpredictable.There's always someone who tries to take the upper hand. Beat for beat for beat throughout the play one of them is in a position of power and the other isn't. The suspense is carefully built, audiences are confronted with the ideas that inform the play -- from urgent social issues like racism, homophobia and police brutality to a more philosophical investigation into the very nature of the democratic rights of citizens.

Summerworks Festival, Toronto

2003

Pencil-Neck and Interzone Productions

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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

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Summerworks Festival, Toronto

2002

Pencil-Neck Productions

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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

political drama

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Synopsis: At the top of his game, the therapist comes to a crossroads, perplexed. As a physician whose clients are survivors of political torture, he has worked the worst. Yet now, a case so daunting, he must ask his peers to use the most radical therapy.

Summerworks Festival, Toronto

2004

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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

political drama

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Synopsis: Two political prisoners contemplate the limits of their own existance through a set of carefully determined rules and games

Toronto Fringe Playwriting Contest

2002

Pencil-Neck Productions

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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

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis: Gypsies captures the plight of those in the social classes who are too often disregarded by the majority, especially within a college town. Linda, a woman who's been pushed around and moved around one too many times arrives aagain in a new town and has to make the choice of babysitting her young daughter in their new flop, or babysitting her man as takes to the student bar in the neighborhood

workshopped at York's New Playwright's Festival

2003

University of Lethbridge

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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

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Notes: This play also was performed in a workshop production at University of Lethbridge in 2004

Synopsis: Three biologists are stationed in Canada's high Arctic, in a field camp for a government funded ornithological study. The play discusses and questions many issues, foremost being how humans behave as biological animals, akin to the birds the characters themselves are studying. The primary behaviour among these is creatures' tendencies not only identify with, but to actively form bonds with those they consider like them. In the play the character of Carl, by failing to tell of his sexual preference, finds himself being mistaken by Delia, whom, because of their overt similarities, is drawn to him amourously/sexually. Similarly, Delia and Carl are distanced from Kenneth by age and personal and social politics. When the relationship between Carl and Delia becomes thwarted, Carl decides to remain misrepresented, and to allow the biological imperatives of survival to guide his behaviour rather than the social imperatives of honesty. This decision has unexpected behavioural results from Delia, who spurned, forms an alliance with Kenneth socially and, at least in appearance, sexually. Because the requirements of living so isolated, the confusion in each character's motives and behaviours, and the 'otherness' and peril of their situation, Carl becomes confused over his place in the reality of the moment and in his behavioural drives. When the peril of their setting is finally expressed, the world they inhabit becomes too ungraspable and their reactions to it are inadequate and ultimately regrettable.

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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

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George Luscombe Theatre

2001

Pencil-Neck Productions

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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

political drama

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Notes: came out of workshop environments under the tutelage of Judith Thompson. The play deals with two topics, one rather delicate. My country has recently been plagued by a number of allegations and convictions concerning pedophile hockey coaches preying upon

Synopsis: Gianni, a jack-of-all trades, and Carl, a biologist meet and begin feeling each other out as potential partners. As their relationship progresses they discover that they are both childhood victims of sexual abuse committed by the same hockey coach - while in different towns at different times. While one of them is rather well- adjusted, the other is quite affected. This leads to friction and an eventual failure, yet discovery, in their relationship

workshop, York University

2002

Theatre @York

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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

political drama

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An ensemble piece. Needs at very least five women and five men

Notes: A bit about how the play came into being. Early in the nineties I worked teaching ESL with new Canadians, mostly refugees. After most of my students reach a level of proficiency they began to share their experiences of coming through various conflicts, wa

Synopsis: A group of people are torn by ethnic conflict and watch as their norms are degraded to savagery