MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH   


Margaret Hollingsworth
   Nationality:
Canadian
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Plays by Margaret Hollingsworth

MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Alli Alli Oh
1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver.
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto
1979
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in a West Coast island farmhouse, this psychological drama offers a deep, disturbing look at the relationship between two women
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Alma Victoria
1st Produced:
Nanaimo Festival Theatre, Nanaimo, BC.
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto
-
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Set in the 1920's and 30's, the play revolves around Alma Victoria and her 18-year-old lover, who are accused of murdering Alma's husband, the architect Francis Rattenbury.
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Apple In The Eye
1st Produced:
Women and Word conference, Vancouver, BC.
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Wilful Acts, Coach House Press, Toronto. (Talon Books 1998)
1985
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
broadcast 1977
Synopsis:
Gemma's attempts to communicate with her husband are repeatedly rebuffed and she survives her unbearable reality by withdrawing into her own fantasy world.
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Blowing Up Toads
1st Produced:
Calgary
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Bushed
1st Produced:
Vancouver
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto
1981
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Two elderly loggers, one Finnish and the other Ukrainian, seek shelter in a laundromat. They reminisce about their past exploits and make futile plans for sexual conquest.
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Commonwealth Games
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
Talon Books, Vancouver, BC
1998
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
under the title Blowing up Toads
Synopsis:
A realistic fast-paced examination of the role of the Commonwealth and the patriarchy at the end of the 20th Century. Three people vie for control over the life of a brilliant 16 year-old girl who is being educated at an Ivy League college in the US. (Formerly Blowing up Toads)
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Dance For My Father
1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver.
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
New Play Centre, Vancouver
1976
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Diving
1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver.
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Wilful Acts, Coach House Press, Toronto. (Talon Books 1998)
1985
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
In her imaginative inner world, Viveca can safely impose her male/female and mother/daughter relationships surrealistically on her external life.
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Ever Loving
1st Produced:
Belfry Theatre, Victoria
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto
1981
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Three war brides from England, Scotland and Italy travel to Canada in 1945. The lives of the three women and their relationships with their husbands weave together the hopes, fantasies, disappointments and the grim reality of starting a new life in a new land.
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Green Line, The
1st Produced:
Stratford, Ontario
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
House That Jack Built, The
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Blizzard Publishing, Canada
1988
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Jack builds a house on the outskirts of Toronto for Jenny, who is reluctant to leave the city. As she adjusts to their new home, their marriage undergoes a frightening change
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
In Confidence
1st Produced:
Firehall Theatre, Vancouver
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama)
1995
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
In Confidence features two monologues by two women in two different kitchens in two different cities three thousand miles apart - this simple conceit is all Hollingsworth needs to create a complex portrait of a friendship hampered by dark secrets in each woman's marriage
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Islands
1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver.
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto
1983
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Six months after "Alli Alli Oh!" Now living alone, Muriel receives a visit from her widowed mother and her new fiance. Alli also arrives unexpectedly, and events climax when each woman discovers ways to relate to past events
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
It's Only Hot For Two Months In Kapuskasing
1st Produced:
Toronto
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Blizzard Publishing, Canada
1988
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A woman goes to help a friend who she thinks is being abused by her lover.
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Making Greenpeace
1st Produced:
Vancouver
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Mother Country
1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, ON
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto
1980
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Three Canadian women visit their British mother at her West Coast island home. The reunion crackles with tension as the deceit on which the women were raised is slowly exposed.
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Numbrains
1st Produced:
Vancouver
1993
Company:
-
1st Published:
Reference West, Victoria
1995
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Operators
1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver.
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto
1981
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Three women are working a northern nightshift. The probing of the youngest leads to disturbing revelations about the fears and dependencies of the older two.
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Poppycock
1st Produced:
Theatre Resource Centre, Toronto, ON.
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
Blizzard Publishing, Canada
1988
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Three of the most powerful men of the century, Pablo Picasso, Adolf Hitler and Ezra Pound, are examined in relationships with one woman who is featured in each of their lives.
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Prim And Duck, Mama And Frank
1st Produced:
Toronto
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
Blizzard Publishing, Canada
1988
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Genre:
Drama
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A mother, her two adult children and a mysterious uncle struggle with questions of self-identity, social acceptance and perceptions of reality
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
There's A Few Things I Want To Tell You
1st Produced:
Vancouver
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
War Babies
1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver, and the Belfry Theatre, Victoria.
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Wilful Acts, Coach House Press, Toronto. (Talon Books 1998)
1985
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
After twenty years of marriage, Esme, a playwright, and Colin, a war correspondent, are expecting a baby. Fears of middle-aged childbirth as well as the latent male-female antagonism of two decades of living together intensify as the date of the birth draws near.
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Willful Acts
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
Talon Books, Vancouver, BC
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH
Writers Show, The
1st Produced:
Vancouver
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with others
Synopsis:
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