JACK WINTER (1936 - )
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Jack Winter
And They'll Make Peace |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1962 | ||
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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 | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 8 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Full-length adaptation of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata". | ||||
Synopsis: A sex-strike in ancient Greece | ||||
Before Compiegne |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1963 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full-length drama | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: The playwright's (and TWP's) first professional production. | ||||
Synopsis: Joan of Arc's final days. | ||||
Caboose To Moose Jaw |
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full-length drama | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written in 2001, the playwright's personal sequel to "Ten Lost Years" (see below) | ||||
Synopsis: Across middle Europe, the mid Atlantic, and mid-century Canada - the history of one Jewish family's various exiles and journeys into the present. | ||||
Centre, The |
| 1st Produced: | Ontario Housing Corporation in Sudbury, Ontario | 1971 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full-length drama | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Commissioned by The Ontario Housing Corporation for its 19th annual housing conference | ||||
Synopsis: A group struggle against conditions in Canada's oldest and worst public housing development | ||||
Death of Woyzeck, the |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1965 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Georg Buchner | ||||
Synopsis: An abused ordinary soldier murders his mistress | ||||
Family Matters |
| 1st Produced: | Concordia U | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Inadvertently commissioned by the Department of Drama. | ||||
Synopsis: Several students examine their personal histories and the nature of internal exile. | ||||
Golem of Venice, The |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1967 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full-length drama | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Medieval Jews and Christians in religious (superstitious) and economic (mercantile)combat | ||||
Synopsis: Two rabbis and two ecclesiasts battle to save Shylock and Antonio's widow . . . and to benefit and to entertain themselves | ||||
Golovlovo |
| 1st Produced: | BBC radio | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A full-length dramatisation of Saltykov-Shchedrin's novel, The Golovlovs | ||||
Synopsis: The decline and demise of a 19th century Russian family | ||||
Happy Birthday, Death! |
| 1st Produced: | CBC radio | 1967 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Based on correspondance between General Leslie Groves, Robert Oppenheimer and President Harry S. Truman. | ||||
Synopsis: The building and testing of the first atomic bomb | ||||
Hey Rube! |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1965 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full-length circus drama | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A new version of T.W.P.'s original 1961 production | ||||
Synopsis: The life and death . . . and life of a contemporary circus | ||||
Letters from the Earth |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1973 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A full-length dramatisation of satirical prose by Mark Twain with contemporary additions | ||||
Synopsis: Satan visits Earth and witnesses the history of mankind | ||||
Mask Of The Bear |
| 1st Produced: | CBC TV | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A dramatisation of linked stories in Margaret Lawrence's collection "A Bird In The House". | ||||
Synopsis: A young prairie girl experiences death in the family, and plots her escape from female servitude | ||||
Mechanic, The |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1964 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full-length drama | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A contemporary take on Moliere and the commedia del arte | ||||
Synopsis: An automobile mechanic pretends to be a medical doctor to help out two lovers . . . and himself | ||||
Mr. Pickwick |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A dramatisation of Charles Dickens' "Pickwick Papers". | ||||
Synopsis: Mr. Pickwick bumbles through life high and low and lower | ||||
Party Day |
| 1st Produced: | Studio TheatreNational Arts Centre | 1969 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 1972 | ||
| 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: | long one-act | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: commissioned and first produced by the National Arts Centre to celebrate its opening in 1969 | ||||
Synopsis: Joseph Goebbels, the Director of Ottawa's National Arts Centre, reviews his past nationalist artistic productions: Nazi party rallies, propeganda films, inflamatory broadcasts, etc. | ||||
Ravers |
| 1st Produced: | unproduced | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full-length drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: written in 2003 with the co-operation of "service users" at the Bath City branch of MIND. | ||||
Synopsis: Women whose lives are defined and entwined by schizophrenia pass a day in rest, recreation, and death. | ||||
Summer 76 |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full-length Olympics play | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Piece d'occasion to honour the Montreal Olympics | ||||
Synopsis: A satirical history of the modern Olympics | ||||
Ten Lost Years |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1974 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in CTR Anthology, University of Toronto Press | 1993 | ||
| 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: | full-length musical adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Written with Cedric Smith. A full-length dramtisation of Barry Broadfoot's book of interviews | ||||
Synopsis: The Great Canadian Depression as seen by victims of it. | ||||
Untimely Death |
| 1st Produced: | CBC radio | 1976 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Thirty minute one-act play for voices | ||||
Synopsis: The life and death of a Prince Edward Island farmer are accounted for by his wives, family and friends . . . and by himself | ||||
Waiting |
| 1st Produced: | Department of Manpower and Immigra-tion, Toronto | 1972 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full-length drama | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Comissioned by the Local Initiatives Program | ||||
Synopsis: Tales of unemployment as experienced by four applicants waiting for an interview at Canada Manpower | ||||
Who Am I?: |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Performing Arts in Canada, Vol. 7, No. 4 | 1970 | ||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A response to a request by Performing Arts In Canada for an article | ||||
Synopsis: A short circular dialogue about playwrighting. | ||||
Wrecked Blackship, The |
| 1st Produced: | CBC TV | 1970 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | in Performing Arts in Canada, Vol. 7, No. 2, | 1970 | ||
| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Radio, television and stage productions | ||||
Synopsis: A 19th century clipper ship founders. The rescue attempts reveal much about the coolie trade and U.S./Japan international relations then and now | ||||
You Cant Get Here from There |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto Workshop Productions | 1975 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com | |||
| Genre: | full-length drama | - | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: An examination of Canada's role in the murder of Allende's Chile. The eve of the premiere was the occasion for the fire-bombing of TWP. The theatre was re-built, and the play opened there 3 months later | ||||
Synopsis: Asylum seekers occupy the Canadian Embassy in Santiago, and struggle to enter Canada | ||||