Ontario Playwrights: Eight Short Plays Selected by Theatre Ontario
Eight one-act plays for readers,
students, actors and theatres selected by Theatre Ontario.
AS NIGHT TO THE DAY
• by Dan Ebbs
Forty-year-old Michael returns
home to help his mother who is struggling with memory loss. Over the
course of a morning, Michael sees her through the eyes of another and
learns that there’s a side to her he didn’t know.
BEDTIME STORIES
• by Diana Kolpak
Four women from fairy tales—Cinderella,
the Witch who held Rapunzel hostage, the Queen who outsmarts Rumpelstiltskin
and Bluebeard’s wife—each tell the story from their own point of
view. A unique look at the way women are treated in classic tales.
HEALTH CLASS
• by David S. Craig and Robert Morgan
Two teachers prepare a sex
ed presentation for male high school students. Through their discussions,
their own experiences, fears and doubts about sexuality, masculinity
and gender come to the fore, engaging the audience and asking us to
look at our own opinions and beliefs when it comes to sex.
HIDE AND SEEK
• by Drew Carnwath
The unresolved disappearance
of one of their childhood friends causes three women to continually
return to that day. Beautifully lyrical and hauntingly poetic, Hide
and Seek reminds us about those who are left behind.
THE MALAYSIA HOTEL
• by Laurie Fyffe
In the middle of Bangkok, the
rundown Malaysia is a traveller’s hotel with a long history. There,
on her last night in Thailand, Kris, a Canadian English teacher, is
confronted by Molyka, a young Cambodian refugee who makes a strange
and seemingly impossible request.
MY NARRATOR
• by Norm Foster
Imagine what would happen if
that little voice inside your head—the one that tells you how to behave
and what choices to make—suddenly took on a life of its own? For Lacy
and Miles, love is what happens, and with hilarious results.
STROKE STATIC
• by Lindsay Price
Suffering from dementia, Russ
is taken from the present to the past and back again in a split second.
A sobering look at the loss of control that accompanies this disease
from the inside.
THE WORK OF ART
• by Victoria Dawe
Neighbours Frank and Annie
assemble a foundobject sculpture in Frank’s backyard and in the meantime
discuss life, love and everything in between. At the end of the day,
could it be that what they’re looking for has been next door all along?
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