JUDITH THOMPSON (1954 - )
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Judith Thompson
Crackwalker, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1980 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press | 1988 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama/black comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: About a retarded woman and her friends. Explores the psyche of those living outside of "normal" society | ||||
Enoch Arden In The Hope Shelter |
| 1st Produced: | Rosemary Branch, London | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Footpath Productions | |||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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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. | ||||
Habitat |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto | 2003 | ||
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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. | ||||
Hedda Gabler |
| 1st Produced: | Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario | 1991 | ||
| 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: | - | 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. | ||||
I Am Yours |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1987 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "The Other Side of the Dark", Coach House, Toronto | 1989 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Drama/black comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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. | ||||
Leaves Of Forever, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Lion In the Streets |
| 1st Produced: | the duMaurier World Stage Festival, Toronto | 1990 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Coach House Press, Toronto | 1991 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: the ghost of a murdered young girl flits through every scene, a poignant reflection of the loneliness and suffering of the other characters. . . | ||||
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: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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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. | ||||
Palace At The End |
| 1st Produced: | Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NY | 2008 | ||
| Company: | Epic Theatre Ensemble | |||
| 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: | triptych of monologues | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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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. - press release | ||||
Perfect Pie |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 2000 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press | 2000 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| 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 | ||||
Pink |
| 1st Produced: | Arts Against Apartheid Benefit, Toronto | 1986 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "The Other Side of the Dark", Coach House, Toronto | 1989 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Monologue | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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Synopsis: A ten-year-old white girl speaks to her dead black nurse | ||||
Sled |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1997 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press | 1998 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| 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. | ||||
Tornado |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in "The Other Side of the Dark", Coach House, Toronto | 1989 | ||
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White Biting Dog |
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto | 1984 | ||
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| Genre: | Drama/black comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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. | ||||
White Sand |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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Yellow Canaries |
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| 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 | |||
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