Realistic
Singkil
Family story focused on young woman whose mother has just died. The secrets of her past intrude into her present disrupting her relationship with her boyfriend , her father and her dead mother.
My Place Is Right Here: Hugh Burnett and the Fight for a Better Canada
"This play is a research-based, dramatic exploration and celebration of little known African-Canadian hero Hugh Burnett's personhood and human rights legacy. The setting of the play is the world of Hugh Burnett's memory and our memory. Like our dreams, it is not confined by space or conventional rules. Through the interplay of text, theatre and movement, it is hoped that Hugh Burnett may speak his memory and our memory even as memory shifts and changes like the countless grains of a sand dune." - from the publisher
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1) Playwrights notes that: The Sand Chorus can be as small as 2 actors, or as large as the director deems fit. 2) In its inaugural run Hugh Burnett was played by 1 male actor. The Sand Chorus consisted of 4 actors, 1 male actor and 3 female actors. The Sand Chorus can be as small as 2 actors, or as large as the director deems fit. The model of the inaugural run need not be copied. 4) This work is best played without an intermission.
Production and Publication
First produced
2019, Our World Festival, Flex We Talent, and The Registry Theatre, Kitchener, Ontario
Publication year
2019
Published by
Playwrights Guild of Canada
ISBN
9781999296902
Content note: There are a number of references to class-, ethnic- and race-informed discriminatory behaviour portrayed through characters' words and embodied actions. There are references to interpersonal violence, inclu
Content note: There are a number of references to class-, ethnic- and race-informed discriminatory behaviour portrayed through characters' words and embodied actions. There are references to interpersonal violence, inclu
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