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Books by Catherine Banks:
Bone Cage
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Catherine Banks
Plays by Catherine Banks include
Bone Cage, Eula's Offer, The Summer of the Piping Plover
(UpStart Theatre); Three Storey Ocean View (Mulgrave Road Theatre,
Toronto Equity Showcase); and Bitter Rose (Women's Theatre
and Creativity Centre). Bitter Rose has aired on Bravo! Canada.
Her work has been performed in Manitoba, Toronto and St. John's at
the LSPU Hall. Three Storey Ocean View won the Silver Medal in
the 1995 du Maurier National Play Competition and was nominated for
a Merrit Award for best new play in 2000. Bone Cage was awarded
the Special Merit prize in the 2002 Theatre BC New Play Competition
and was showcased at the National Arts Centre's On the Verge 2005.
Her work is poetic, darkly humorous, courageous and beautifully theatrical.
Some of her characters, Lud in Three Storey Ocean View and Clarence
in Bone Cage, have been described as Atlantic Gothic. Always
a writer, Catherine started professional life as a Special Education
teacher. She began writing plays while raising her children, Rilla and
Simon. She currently lives and writes in Sambro, Nova Scotia.
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