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KIT BRENNAN |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Kit Brennans award-winning plays have been produced across Canada. Her play, Spring Planting, won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Literary Award. Kit lives in Montreal, where she is a faculty member and coordinates the playwriting program at Concordia Universitys Department of Theatre.
Plays by Kit Brennan
Baggage | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Alberta, Edmonton. | 1993 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4497 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | An island parable for the disenchanted. Somewhere in the Pacific, two plane-wrecked urbanites and an exiled island woman discover they must learn to survive together. Mayhem ensues as they disentangle their verbal, cultural, and literal baggage. | |||||
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Differents, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lakeland College, Lloydminster | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4498 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Roles are doubled, may be played with more than 7 actors | |||||
Synopsis: | When Grant moves to a new town, reality seems to slip a notch. A fantastical tale which shows that different can be a good thing - after all, they could be your next door neighbours. | |||||
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Having | ||
| 1st Produced: | Centaur Theatre, Montreal, Quebec. | 1999 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | NuAge Editions, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4499 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length one-act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | David's career is on the make and he's bringing it all home. Is he happy? His mother wonders. Sixteen-year-old Erin feels entangled in her father's ambition, until a highwayman arrives in her bed and the world suddenly tilts. | |||||
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Hunger Striking | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4500 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length one-act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sarah's student, Katie, has just died of anorexia. Her death propels Sarah into her own memories, taking her from her present day reality as a high school English teacher into multiple pasts: her own past as an anorexic girl twenty years earlier, her Celtic heritage with its vivid creatures and mythology passed on to her by her father, and the world of the hunger-striking suffragettes at the beginning of the last century. | |||||
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Magpie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Twenty-Fifth Street Theatre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | NuAge Editions, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4501 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length one-act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Bernice is large, middle-aged, and prone to fantasies. Her small town life is disrupted by the arrival of a gifted dance instructor. He is everything she aspires to be, and everything that her background rejects as frivolous. The men in her life, husband, doctor, and evangelist preacher, cannot keep her in the confines of her reality, and her fantasy world escalates into a place that is much larger and more exciting than life. | |||||
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Spring Planting | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ship's Company Theatre, Nova Scotia. | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | NuAge Editions, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4502 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | won the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Literary Award | |||||
Synopsis: | Although her husband has been dead for three years, Jill cannot let go. When Jill's daughter Caroline runs away from her mother and their new home, and returns to the protection of the old neighbour who loves her, Jill is forced to let in the future. ". . .utterly convincing in its portrayal of the ever-changing family dynamic. . ." - The Halifax Chronicle-Herald | |||||
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Tiger's Heart | ||
| 1st Produced: | Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa. | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama), | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4503 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | England, 1815. A young woman disguises herself as a man so that she may be allowed to study medecine. Ten years later "Dr. James Barry", a military doctor and physician to the British Governor of South Africa, faces the contradictions of living behind her mask, and must ultimately confront her own "tiger's heart". "Kit Brennan's true tale about Dr. James Barry. . .is masterfully written." - The Halifax Chronicle-Herald | |||||
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World's Biggest | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lloydminster Alberta | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4504 | |||
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: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | In a wild attempt to attract tourist dollars, the small but enterprising town of Gurkin decides to erect a gigantic pickle to raise community pride and save the town's economy. Unfortunately, there's something rotten about the whole deal | |||||
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