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JUDITH THOMPSON (1954 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Great North Artists |
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Plays by Judith Thompson |
Crackwalker, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1980 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, 1988 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34602 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | About a retarded woman and her friends. Explores the psyche of those living outside of "normal" society | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Enoch Arden In The Hope Shelter | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rosemary Branch, London | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Footpath Productions | |||||
| 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 | #69813 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Tennyson's poem "Enoch Arden" is being rehearsed by a pair of lost souls struggling with their mental demons in a halfway house in Dalston. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Habitat | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34603 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Janet and her mother Margaret both live on Mapleview Lanes - the perfect neighbourhood with the perfect neighbours, until Lewis Chance buys a house on their street to open a group home for troubled adolescents. Raine, unable to respond emotionally when her mother dies, finds herself at this group home, in a community that has little tolerance for its newest residents. The ensuing battle - over whether the group home stays or not - allows Raine to re-awaken her emotions through rage, and a political will she didn't know that she possessed. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Harrowdown Hill | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #102278 | |||
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Genre: | monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | a British former UN Weapons Inspector exposed as a source for a BBC journalist | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Hedda Gabler | ||
| 1st Produced: | Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #34604 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | Appallingly comic spectacle of a claustrophobic and fragile world coming apart at the seams. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
I Am Yours | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Other Side of the Dark", Coach House, Toronto, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34605 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama, 1989. | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman incapable of loving, wreaks havoc on her own life and the lives of the two men with whom she is involved. She becomes pregnant by one of them and an obsessive struggle to determine the fate of the baby ensues. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Instruments Of Yearning | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #102279 | |||
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Genre: | monologue | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | an Iraqi woman pursued by Saddam Hussein's secret police | |||||
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Leaves Of Forever, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #34606 | |||
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Lion In the Streets | ||
| 1st Produced: | the duMaurier World Stage Festival, Toronto | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Coach House Press, Toronto, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34607 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | the ghost of a murdered young girl flits through every scene, a poignant reflection of the loneliness and suffering of the other characters. . . | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Motel Helene | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #93982 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Serge Boucher | |||||
Synopsis: | Johnanne is guilt ridden since her nine year old son disappeared. Her macho-boyfriend is no help. She is friendly with gay assistant at the convenience store | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
My Pyramids; or, How I got Fired from the Dairy Queen, and Ended Up in Abu Ghraib, by Private Lynndie England | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | Volcano (Toronto, Canada) | |||||
| 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 | #60203 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | A version of the first of these three monologues, presented as My Pyramids, premiered at the Traverse in 2005. The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, brings you the finished play, which first played in their Studio space in February 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | American forces have held more than 50,000 "detainees" in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past three years. The US Army itself has investigated over 300 cases of alleged "detainee mistreatment" (criminal homicides, assaults, sexual assaults). One case in particular captured the world's attention: photos of a young American woman giving the thumbs-up beside pyramids of naked Iraqi prisoners. Meet Lynndie England - the billboard image of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Palace Of The End | ||
| 1st Produced: | Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Epic Theatre Ensemble | |||||
| 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 | #83844 | |||
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Genre: | triptych of monologues | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | comprises the three three monologues: My Pyramids; Harrowndown Hill and Instruments Of Yearning | |||||
Synopsis: | Palace of the End is a triptych of monologues that intimately explores the experiences of three key figures of the Middle East crisis: Lynndie England, the U.S. soldier who was convicted of abusing detainees at Baghdad's Alu Gharib prison; David Kelly, the British weapons inspector who allegedly committed suicide after being involved in a government scandal; and Nehrjas Al Saffarh, a member of the Communist Party of Iraq who suffered under Saddham Hussein's regime and died when the Americans bombed her home during the initial Gulf War. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Perfect Pie | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34608 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | In the course of an afternoon's reunion between two long-estranged women, a buried memory and two teenagers' wild secret slam into the present | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Pink | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts Against Apartheid Benefit, Toronto | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Other Side of the Dark", Coach House, Toronto, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34609 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A ten-year-old white girl speaks to her dead black nurse | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Sled | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34610 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | A gripping look at the effects of a totally senseless string of violent murders on the inhabitants of a quiet neighbourhood, that could be anywhere in urban North America. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
Tornado | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Other Side of the Dark", Coach House, Toronto, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34611 | |||
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White Biting Dog | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34612 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/black comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Winner, Governor-General's Literary Award for Drama, 1984 | |||||
Synopsis: | A suicidal young man is rescued by a white dog who gives him a mission: to save his father from death. His mission flounders until the dog's owner helps him by bringing his reluctant mother back into the family. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
White Sand | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34613 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Yellow Canaries | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #34614 | |||
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