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Sharon Pollock

SHARON POLLOCK

  (1936 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Sharon Pollock's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         "It's all make believe, isn't it?" - Marilyn Monroe         And Out Goes You?         Angel's Trumpet         Blood Relations         Chautauqua Spelt E-N-E-R-G-Y         Compulsory Option, A         Death In the Family         Doc         End Dream         Fair Liberty's Call         Generations         Getting it Straight         Great Drag Race or Smoked, Choked and Croak, The         Happy Prince, The         Hon/Harold         Kabloona Talk         Komagata Maru Incident, The         Lesson In Swizzlery, A         Mail Vs Female         Making of Warriors , The         Mother Love         My Name Is Lisbeth         New Canadians         No! No! No!         One Tiger To A Hill         Passage         Prairie Dragons         Rose And the Nightingale, The         Saucy Jack         Star-Child, The         Superstition Throu' the Ages         Tracings: the Fraser Story         Walsh         Whiskey Six         Wreck Of the National Line Car, The         Wudjesay?
"It's all make believe, isn't it?" - Marilyn Monroe

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1st Published:
Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1994   

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Drama One Act

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And Out Goes You?

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1st Produced:
Playhouse, Vancouver     1975

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Genre:
Comedy

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Angel's Trumpet

Synopsis:
The turbulent relationship of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Sharon Pollock Three Plays" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2001   

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Blood Relations

Blood Relations
Lizzie Borden is driven to desperation by family pressure and the ambiguous complexities unfold as Lizzie's actress friend helps act out the crucial scenes with Lizzie's directions

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aka My Name Is Lisbeth

1st Produced:
Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C     1976

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1st Published:
in "Blood Relations and Other Plays",NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1981   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Chautauqua Spelt E-N-E-R-G-Y

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Compulsory Option, A

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aka No! No! No!

1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver     1972

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1st Published:
Department of Culture, Youth and Recreation, Edmonton, 1970   

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Death In the Family

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Sharon Pollock Collected Works volume Three" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2008   

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Doc

Synopsis:
Catherine returns home to visit her aging father, a doctor revered and honoured by his community. She confronts, through a series of flashbacks, her thwarted need for his love and her late mother's decline into alcoholism, finally realizing that it is time for a reconciliation with her father

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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1986   

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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End Dream

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Sharon Pollock Three Plays" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2000   

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fair Liberty's Call

Fair Liberty's Call
1785. A loyalist family, trapped by Rebel forces, must decide which among their number should be offered for execution.

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1st Produced:
Ontario     1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, 1998   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Generations

Synopsis:
the attitudes of three generations towards the family homestead are examined in this naturalistic evocation of a prairie farm kitchen in the 1980's.

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1st Produced:
Calgary     1980

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Blood Relations and Other Plays",NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1981   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Getting it Straight

Getting it Straight
Speaking from a place where sanity and insanity are shuffled like a deck of cards, Eme is determined to play her hand. "Pollock negotiated an invisible, shuddering tightrope." - Winnipeg Free Press

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1st Published:
Red Deer College Press, 1992
Contained in: "A Voice Of Her Own" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2003   

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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Great Drag Race or Smoked, Choked and Croak, The

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1st Produced:
Christmas Seal Society Of British Columbia     1974

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Genre:
children's mellerdramer" Youth Audience

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Happy Prince, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from story by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre School, Vancouver     1974

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hon/Harold

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1st Produced:
Unproduced    

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Genre:
vignette for the stage

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Kabloona Talk

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1st Published:
Contained in: "the Alberta Advantage" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2008   

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Komagata Maru Incident, The

Synopsis:
about Canadian racism Indian immigrants are refused permission to land in Canada, true story from 1914

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1st Produced:
Vancouver Playhouse, New Company     1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1978   

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Genre:
Long 1 Act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lesson In Swizzlery, A

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Caravan Theatre, New Westminster, British Columbia     1974

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Mail Vs Female

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Genre:
comedy One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Making of Warriors , The

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    

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Mother Love

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Unproduced    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
vignette for the stage

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My Name Is Lisbeth

Synopsis:
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Notes:
aka Blood Relations

1st Produced:
Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C     1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Blood Relations and Other Plays",NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1981   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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New Canadians

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Playhouse Holiday, Vancouver     1973

Organisations:
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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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No! No! No!

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One Tiger To A Hill

One Tiger To A Hill
A compelling and compassionate examination of the complexities confronting both warden and inmate.

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1st Produced:
Citadel Theatre, Edmonton     1980

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Blood Relations and Other Plays",NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1981   

Music:
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Genre:
Full Length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Passage

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1st Produced:
Unproduced    

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Genre:
long 1 Act

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Prairie Dragons

Synopsis:
Two teenaged heroines face prejudice that denies them equal opportunities to succeed. their story is told by a dragon - a prairie dragon, brought by Chinese immigrants, that can bring good fortune to those who are true to themselves and their vision.

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1st Published:
Red Deer College Press, 1989   

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Genre:
Drama One Act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rose And the Nightingale, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from story by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre School, Vancouver     1974

Organisations:
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Music:
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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Saucy Jack

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1st Published:
Talon Books, Vancouver, BC,    

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Star-Child, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from story by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre School, Vancouver     1974

Organisations:
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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Superstition Throu' the Ages

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Playhouse Holiday, Vancouver     1973

Organisations:
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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Tracings: the Fraser Story

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with Others

1st Produced:
Theatre Network, Edmonton     1977

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Genre:
Collective Work

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Walsh

Walsh
the relationship between Superintendent Walsh of the North West Mounted Police and Sitting Bull. After the Little Big Horn Sitting Bull had fled to Canada

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1st Produced:
Theatre Calgary     1973

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Play Centre, Vancouver, 1972
Talon Books (revised edition) 1994   

Music:
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Genre:
Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Whiskey Six

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Calgary     1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "NeWest Plays By Women" published by NeWest Press 1987   

Music:
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Wreck Of the National Line Car, The

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Wudjesay?

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Playhouse Holiday, Vancouver     1974

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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