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SARA GRAEFE (1969 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Lucas Talent Inc |
Amateur rights are negotiated by the Playwrights Guild of Canada
Plays by Sara Graefe
Dreamspyre | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kingston, Canada | 1990 | ||||
Company: | Queen's University | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14198 | |||
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Genre: | choral/image-based | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 8 | ||
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Notes: | Honourable Mention, Jane Chambers Playwriting Award for feminist plays and playwrights, 2002 | |||||
Synopsis: | A choral, image-based response to the 1989 massacre at l'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. Mary, a passionate young mathematician, struggles with sexism and hostility in a university engineering department. She is haunted by both events in Montreal and by Hypatia, the female philosopher who in 415 AD was killed by an angry mod in Alexandria. A dreamscape of the various realities that inform Mary's decision whether or not to quite school. | |||||
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Sadly As I Tie My Shoes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ottawa, Canada | 1988 | ||||
Company: | National Arts Centre English Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14199 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the 1988 National Arts Centre's Young Playwrights Search | |||||
Synopsis: | Two teenage misfits fall in love. Simon, the insecure class clown, develops his first-ever crush. The object of his desire is none other than Jess, the withdrawn new girl who sits in class drawing on her shoes. The two must navigate the uncertainties of a new relationship amdist academic pressure, burgeoning sexuality, and parents who don't always understand. | |||||
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Scribbles | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ottawa, Canada | 1993 | ||||
Company: | National Arts Centre English Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14200 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Peggy, a college dropout and social misfit, mourns the loss of her friendship with Marnie, her educated and sophisticated former roomate. As Peggy scribbles impressions on little scraps of paper, present blurs with past and memory blurs with reality, exposing Peggy's longing for Marnie, and her attempt to come to terms with her regret that she was unable to tell Marnie that she loved her. | |||||
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Yellow on Thursdays | ||
| 1st Produced: | Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Nakai Theatre and Gwaandak Theatre Adventures | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39313 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | A play for youth and the young at heart. | |||||
Synopsis: | A play about sex, love and hormones -- and learning to be okay with who you are. Two teenage girls find their best friendship souring after a summer apart. Rebecca returns obsessed with boys and sex, while Katie's discovering she's attracted to girls -- maybe even to Rebecca. Meanwhile, Rebeccs hooks up with Mike, the hot new guy at school who's sectretly afarid she'll find out he's still a virgin. | |||||
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