BETTY JANE WYLIE (1931 - )
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Betty Jane Wylie
Androgyne |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: commissioned by Ontario Arts Council in 1978 for Red Light Theatre, Toronto | ||||
Synopsis: about a girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to try out for the girl's parts in Shakespearean plays | ||||
Angel |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Beowulf |
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | rock opera | Opera | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: music by Victor Davies | ||||
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Blind Spot |
| 1st Produced: | workshopped by New Play Centre, Vancouver | 1979 | ||
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| 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: | drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: about four people in an eye doctor's waiting room | ||||
Boy in a Cage |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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Double Swap |
| 1st Produced: | workshopped by Gravenhurst Opera House, Gravenhurst | 1979 | ||
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| 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: | Two Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Double Vision |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 |
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Enemy of the People, An |
| 1st Produced: | 1962 | |||
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| 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: | three-act Canadian adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen | ||||
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George Dandin |
| 1st Produced: | 1964 | |||
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| 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: | musical adaptation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: Original Playwright - Moliere | ||||
Synopsis: with lyrics set to French Canadian folk songs | ||||
Grace Under Pressure |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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Horsburgh Scandal: The Play , The |
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | two-act musical-drama | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: in collaboration with Theatre Passe Muraille with music by John Gray | ||||
Synopsis: drama based on the life of Russell Horsburgh, the United Church minister | ||||
How to Speak Male |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 |
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I See You, I See You |
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||
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| 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: | - | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Jason |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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Kingsayer |
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | play for children | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
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Mark |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford Festival on the Third Stage | 1972 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 1979 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: about a man dying of cancer | ||||
Native of the James Family , A |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Old Woman and the Pedlar , The |
| 1st Produced: | by Young Peoples Theatre, Toronto | 1977 | ||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | 1978 | ||
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| Genre: | play for children | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Place on Earth , A |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | Drama | One Act | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: about an old woman living alone in a room, based on the experience recorded in a series of five articles which appeared in the Toronto Star, "Old and Alone", December 1979 | ||||
Second Shepherds' Play , The |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
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Notes: written by Doolittle, Quenten and Wylie, Betty. A musical adaptation of the Wakefield Mystery play | ||||
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Size Ten |
| 1st Produced: | by Waterloo Playhouse, Waterloo, Iowa | 1976 | ||
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| 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: | three-act comedy | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Soap Bubbles |
| 1st Produced: | Muskoka Theatre | 1979 | ||
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| 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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: written with composer Victor Davies | ||||
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Speculum |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Steps |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 |
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Time Bomb |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Veranda |
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Very Special Person, a |
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| 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: | Two Act play with music | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: in collaboration with Beth Palmer | ||||
Synopsis: based on the life of Emily Murphy | ||||