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CHRISTINE FOSTER |
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Nationality: Canadian/UK Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Core Literary Inc |
Christine Foster is the author of three plays commissioned for Solar Stage Theatre, Toronto, one for The Lighthouse Festival, Port Dover, Ontario, and six for Cliffhanger Productions, one of which won Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Production in 2004. She also won Best New Play at Storybook Theatre, Calgary for The Boy Who Wanted to Learn Fear. Other stage work includes book and lyrics for five original musicals, of which Everything But Anchovies was translated into Danish and produced in Copenhagen. Extensive radio and television credits both as script editor and writer range from CTV's The Littlest Hobo to CBS' "Friday the 13th" and "Top Cops," to the History Channel's "TimeChase" and Family Channel's "Mentors."
Plays by Christine Foster
Bluffer's Moon | ||
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Company: | Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada press, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-55173-824-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12221 | |||
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Genre: | Theatre for Young Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Requires a bear suit. | |||||
Synopsis: | An energetic romp based on a French Canadian folk tale - full of mistaken identity, Mardi Gras madness, and romance. | |||||
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Companion, The | ||
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Company: | Short and Sweet Festival, Sydney, Australia | |||||
| 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 | #86279 | |||
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Genre: | play Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Finalist 2007 | |||||
Synopsis: | The spirit of a passionate young woman clings desperately to the physical world by seeking a living lover. Unfortunately the man she chooses is using her as much as she is using him, propelling them both from momentary passion into the chill of the unknown. | |||||
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Death Of Me, The | ||
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Company: | The Lighthouse Festival, Port Dover, Ontario | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada press, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-55173-313-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12222 | |||
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Genre: | Comic Murder Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A thirty-something couple find themselves unexpectedly dead, then work out a way to go back and relive the night they died in an effort to find out who done it, and how. | |||||
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Elfin Knight , The | ||
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Company: | Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada press, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-555173-822-8 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12223 | |||
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Genre: | Theatre for Young Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | Extras as sprites | |||||
Notes: | Also published in "Prepare to Embark" Playwrights Canada Press 2002 | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on the Ballad of Tam Lyn, this Scottish folktale abounds with magic, swordfights, and high adventure. Katherine must save not only a changeling child, but her own true love, captured by the Fairy Queen and doomed to remain a prisoner for seven long years. | |||||
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Everything But Anchovies | ||
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Company: | Fata Morgana Inc., Toronto | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada press, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | 0-88754-394-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12224 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Music by Phyllis Cohen | |||||
Synopsis: | Four grade-twelve students are driving home after a disastrous appearance on a high school quiz show. Eric, the most popular kid in school, blames the others and tries to put off going home to face humiliation by pretending his car has broken down. The four - who have nothing in common except their mutual hostility - are forced to spend an evening together in the middle of nowhere. | |||||
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Firebird, The | ||
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Company: | Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada press, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-55173-828-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12225 | |||
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Genre: | Theatre for Young Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 with doubling | Female | 3 with doubling | ||
Parts other: | 5 men, 4 women without doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A clever girl dresses as a man to free her love, retrieve a feather from the legendary Firebird, and defeat a powerful Sorcerer. Thus heroic action adventure is set against the colourful backdrop of Medieval Russia. | |||||
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Fool's Whistle , The | ||
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Company: | Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada press, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-55173-826-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12226 | |||
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Genre: | Theatre for Young Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Violinist in costume as The Spirit | |||||
Notes: | Violinist may also be recorded. | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on Romany (Gypsy) folklore. A young man is divided into two - his wise and foolish selves, and under this clumsy enchantment cannot woo the girl he loves. The resulting mayhem is full of misunderstandings. chases, fights, charms and foolery. | |||||
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Odyssey , The | ||
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Company: | Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada press, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12227 | |||
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Genre: | Theatre for Young Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 with doubling | Female | 3 with doubling | ||
Parts other: | 2 Sirens/Nymphs. May be performed by as many as 20, without doubling | |||||
Notes: | A stage adaptation of Homer's classic poem | |||||
Synopsis: | This adaptation streamlines the complicated adventure tale into compelling and accessible language and action. Perfect for high schools or community groups. | |||||
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Pax | ||
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| 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 | #86280 | |||
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Raptures | ||
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Company: | Solar Stage Toronto | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada press, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | 1-55155-431-3 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #12228 | |||
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Genre: | A play in six parts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Six 40 minute installments of a comic-historical romance, originally produced as lunchtime theatre. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two sisters vie for the love of the same man in 1890's Toronto in this rollicking, scandalous comic melodrama. | |||||
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Sheherazade and the 1001 Nights | ||
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Company: | Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada press, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-55435-146-6 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #7411 | |||
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Genre: | Theatre for Young Audience | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 with doubling | Female | 3 with doubling | ||
Parts other: | May use 12 or more actors without doubling. | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A new stage adaptation of The Arabian Nights, using little known tales to highlight the central story of Sheherazade and her desperate bid to save her life by weaving magnificent nightly entertainments for her cruel husband. | |||||
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