DOUGLAS BOWIE
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Douglas Bowie
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| 1st Produced: | Thousand Islands Playhouse | 1997 | ||
| 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: | Comedy/Farce | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Tim "Timbit" Simkins' little theatre is on the verge of bankruptcy when he gets the idea of luring back his old university pal Jacko Germaine, now a famous, albeit B-List TV actor, to lure in the crowds and save the day. Tim gets much more than he bargained for as a bumbling stagehand, a frustrated wife, an ambitious ingenue, and a trap door with a mind of its own contribute to the twists, turns and laughs in this rapid-fire spoof of the backbiting, back-scratching, backstabbing world of theatre. | ||||
Goodbye, Piccadilly |
| 1st Produced: | Thousand Islands Playhouse | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Blyth Festival | |||
| 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: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: Bess Brickley is struggling with the shocking news that her husband, Brick, has been found dead in Leicester Square, London. This is a tragedy cloaked in a mystery because she thought he was on a canoe trip in Algonquin Park. As layers are peeled away, secrets stretching back to World War II are uncovered. Full of heart, humour and surprises, Goodbye, Piccadilly is a universal story about the families we have and the families we make. | ||||
Love and Larceny |
| 1st Produced: | Thousand Islands Playhouse | 2004 | ||
| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | some flexibility with doubling | |||
Notes: Book and Lyrics by Douglas Bowie, Music and Lyrics by David Archibald | ||||
Synopsis: An "almost true" musical, this is the larger-than-life saga of Betsy Bigley, a simple Ontario farm girl, born in 1857, who became one of the most successful con artists of her age. The "seductive swindler", she used brains, beauty and sheer nerve to separate rich men from their money all the way from small-town Ontario to Wall Street. This ingenious and lively caper shines a musical spotlight on one of our most notorious characters. | ||||
Noble Pursuit, The |
| 1st Produced: | Thousand Islands Playhouse | 1991 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Union of Canada | - | ||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Newly revised and updated, 2005 | ||||
Synopsis: Rumours are rife that Canada's pre-eminent man of letters, the august Noble Harmsworth, is on the verge of becoming the first Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. But if the Nobel poo bahs want to immortalize him, why does his former friend and admirer Lyle Lemmerman want to kill him? A sophisticated, suspenseful comedy about literary fame, fortune and fakery. | ||||
Rope's End |
| 1st Produced: | Thousand Islands Playhouse | 2006 | ||
| 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: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A man, Toby Boone, sits alone in a drab room. He's reached the end of his rope - figuratively - and perhaps literally, because he's trying to tie an ominous-looking loop in a rope. The possibility of suicide looms in the air. But he comes across a photo -- the love of his life. She can rescue him if he can just get up his nerve to contact her. There's only one small problem. He last saw her at summer camp when they were 13, 31 years ago. What if she doesn't remember him? Even worse, what if she does? | ||||