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Judith Thompson

JUDITH THOMPSON  (1954 - )

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Great North Artists  

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below is a list of Judith Thompson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Crackwalker, The         Enoch Arden In the Hope Shelter         Habitat         Harrowdown Hill         Hedda Gabler         I Am Yours         Instruments Of Yearning         Kissing Way         Leaves Of Forever, The         Lion In the Streets         Motel Helene         My Pyramids; or, How I got Fired from the Dairy Queen, and Ended Up in Abu Ghraib, by Private Lynndie England         Palace Of the End         Perfect Pie         Pink         Sled         Such Creatures         Tornado         White Biting Dog         White Sand         Yellow Canaries

Crackwalker, The

Synopsis:
About a retarded woman and her friends. Explores the psyche of those living outside of "normal" society

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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, 1988   -

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Genre:
Drama/black comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Enoch Arden In the Hope Shelter

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.

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1st Produced:
Rosemary Branch, London    2007

Organisations:
Footpath Productions

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Habitat

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.

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Playwrights, Toronto, 2003   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Harrowdown Hill

Synopsis:
a British former UN Weapons Inspector exposed as a source for a BBC journalist

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Genre:
monologue

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hedda Gabler

Synopsis:
Appallingly comic spectacle of a claustrophobic and fragile world coming apart at the seams.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Henrik Ibsen

1st Produced:
Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario    1991

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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I Am Yours

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.

Notes:
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama, 1989.

1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto    1987

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "the Other Side of the Dark", Coach House, Toronto, 1989   -

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Genre:
Drama/black comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Instruments Of Yearning

Synopsis:
an Iraqi woman pursued by Saddam Hussein's secret police

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Genre:
monologue

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Kissing Way

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Snappy Shorts At the Tarragon" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2005   978-0887547508

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Genre:
Short play

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Leaves Of Forever, The

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Lion In the Streets

Synopsis:
the ghost of a murdered young girl flits through every scene, a poignant reflection of the loneliness and suffering of the other characters. . .

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1st Produced:
the duMaurier World Stage Festival, Toronto    1990

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1st Published:
Coach House Press, Toronto, 1991   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Motel Helene

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

Notes:
Original Playwright - Serge Boucher

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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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My Pyramids; or, How I got Fired from the Dairy Queen, and Ended Up in Abu Ghraib, by Private Lynndie England

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.

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

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Organisations:
Volcano (Toronto, Canada)

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Palace Of the End

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.
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Notes:
comprises the three three monologues: My Pyramids; Harrowndown Hill And Instruments Of Yearning

1st Produced:
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NY    2008

Organisations:
Epic Theatre Ensemble

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Genre:
triptych of monologues

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Perfect Pie

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

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1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto    2000

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, 2000   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Pink

Synopsis:
A ten-year-old white girl speaks to her dead black nurse

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1st Produced:
Arts Against Apartheid Benefit, Toronto    1986

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "the Other Side of the Dark", Coach House, Toronto, 1989   -

Music:
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Genre:
Monologue Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sled

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.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto    1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, 1998   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Such Creatures

Synopsis:
An inner city girl and an elderly Jewish Pole brought together through Shakespeare

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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press 2010   -

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tornado

Synopsis:
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1st Published:
in "the Other Side of the Dark", Coach House, Toronto, 1989   -

Music:
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White Biting Dog

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.

Notes:
Winner, Governor-General's Literary Award for Drama, 1984

1st Produced:
BAC, London >>>    1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1984   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama/black comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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White Sand

Synopsis:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Yellow Canaries

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