JOANNA MCCLELLAND GLASS (1936 - )
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Joanna McClelland Glass
American Modern |
| 1st Produced: | Manhatttan Theatre Club, NY | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | inCanadian Gothic and American Modern: Two Plays, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York | 1977 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: accompanies Canadian Gothic | ||||
Synopsis: Pat and Mike, an urban couple, find themselves ever more out of touch with the world in which they must live, and with ever less to hold onto and believe in. He toys with the prospect of suicide, and she with the notion of madness, as they reminisce about the events, large and small, which have brought them to where they are. Their conversation grows ever more bizarreand revealingas they seek to "fill the empty spaces," and to fight back, to survive, against the meaningless which threatens to devour them | ||||
Artichoke |
| 1st Produced: | Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | 1974 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: The scene is the Morley farm, in the prairie country of Saskatchewan, Canada. Margaret and Walter Morley have been estranged for fourteen years, ever since his encounter with a "water witch" resulted in the arrival of his illegitimate daughter, Lily Agnes, and led to Walter's banishment to the smokehouse. Margaret has remained in the main house, with'Lily Agnes (whom she has raised as her own), and her father, Gramps. They are joined for the summer by Gibson McFarland, Gramps adopted son, now a college professor, who is recovering from a mild nervous breakdown. Gibson's return reopens old wounds and desires, and it is soon apparent (and so reported by two gossipy bachelor neighbours) that Margaret's needs for culture and affection are now being satisfied at last. As summer wanes so must the idyll of Gibson and Margaret, but her transgression, in Walter's eyes, evens the score between them - and as the play ends it is dear that the Morley household, so long divided, will once again know the harmony and love wh | ||||
Canadian Gothic |
| 1st Produced: | Manhatttan Theatre Club, NY | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York | 1972 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: accompanies Anerican Modern | ||||
Synopsis: Presented on a virtually bare stage, with the characters speaking sometimes to the audience and sometimes to each other, the play uses language of poetic eloquence and incision to illuminate its tale of an ill-fated love affair and the family it destroys. It begins with the evocative memories of the mother and fathera Saskatchewan dentist and his mildly rebellious wifeand then goes on, after the mother's death, to explore the love which blossoms between their daughter and a young Indian. Sadly the romance results in tragedy rather than happiness, leading to the conception of a child out of wedlock, the accidental blinding of the dentist, the jailing of the young Indian and, in the end, a bittersweet accommodation between father and daughter as they face the long, futile years still left to them. | ||||
If We Are Women |
| 1st Produced: | Canadian Stage Co., Toronto | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1994 | ||
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| Genre: | Comedy Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: Two grandmothers, a daughter, and a granddaughter gather on the deck of a beach house in Connecticut. One grandmother has flown, for the first time, from the Canadian prairie. She is an illiterate woman whose parents were homesteading pioneers. "If only I had gotten my eighth grade diploma." Her daughter is a novelist whose lover died recently. "If only I had a college degree." The second grandmother has driven up from Pennsylvania. She is an agnostic Jewish intellectual with a Master's degree. "If only I had gone to Oxford." The granddaughter is eighteen and is slated to go to Yale in the autumn. After staying out all night with a young man, she arrives on the scene to announce a reversal of plans. The three older women discuss their pasts and presents poetically, poignantly and humorously as they attempt to pass down the wisdom of their years. When the granddaughter disregards all that she hears, the prairie grandmother observes that "every time a kid is born, we start from zero." | ||||
Jewish Strawberries |
| 1st Produced: | Wayne State Iniversity Workshop, Detroit, Michigan | 1971 | ||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Last Chalice |
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||
| 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: | Full Length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Play Memory |
| 1st Produced: | McCarter Theatre, Princeton | 1984 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London | 1984 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: a Canadian salesman and father determined to drink himself to death following his black market activities during world War II | ||||
Santacqua |
| 1st Produced: | Herbert Berghof Playwrights Unit, NY | 1969 | ||
| 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: | Three Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: first stage play | ||||
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To Grandmother's House We Go |
| 1st Produced: | Alley Theatre, Houston, TX; Broadway | 1980 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1980 | ||
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| Genre: | Serious comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: grandmother lives in a large Connecticut Victorian house with various relatives, with more staying for Thanksgiving, all have requests to make of the matriarch but inflation has taken its toll on their wealth | ||||
Trying |
| 1st Produced: | Wayne State Iniversity Workshop, Detroit, Michigan | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press | 2005 | ||
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| Genre: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: Plucky Canadian prairie girl goes to Washington D.C. and lands a job with a crusty old judge. Their mercurial relationship, wrought with paper, tears and iron-will, blossoms into an undying friendship | ||||
Yesteryear |
| 1st Produced: | 1989 | |||
| Company: | Canadian Stage Co., Toronto | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press | 1998 | ||
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