The Dissociates takes a darkly comic look at life and death, memory and healing. It is the story of Alex, a 50ish lesbian who finds herself dealing with the aftermath of a recent crisis. While working in her garden, following the advice of her well-meaning psychiatrist, she tries to assess and reassess sometimes with heartbreaking clarity, often with broad strokes of gallows humour, how she got where she is. As she works to repair her garden, six dissociated aspects of her personality come and join her to comment, help, sometimes to hinder her progress. Together Alex’s “voices” weave a rich tapestry of a life that has been fragmented and compartmentalized, a life that Alex must "remember" to move forward. It’s a premise that injects considerable theatricality and humour into the story of a small essentially internal step. It is also a premise that allows the telling of a history specific to the lesbian community. While the story is specific it tells a universal story about all of us.
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2006, Sea Theatre, Vancouver
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Playwrights Guild of Canada
Digital Script
Unspecified role is a doubled role.
Unspecified role is a doubled role.
Stylized
Two actors, one male, one female illuminate the inner life of a trans woman from her Scottish childhood in the 1960s to the present day. Dragonfly is about how we construct and perceive gender, and how that can hide a person’s true identity not just from those around them, but even from themselves. Emerging from that; matching our inside to our outside is always hard, but for trans people it’s often a matter of life and death.
TYA
A new year of high school is full of excitement and potential—but three teens didn’t expect it to bring such a dark change to their lives. After spending a summer reinventing herself in Paris, Emma is ready for her new life to start, while her best friend Lily is eager for them to reconnect. Lily throws a last-minute party fuelled by alcohol and Instagram, which leads to a long-awaited encounter between Emma and Lily’s older brother Chris. But the next day Emma feels that something went terribly wrong. When a doctor’s appointment and a visit from police confirm that there was a sexual assault at the party, and the whole school turns against Emma, the three friends grapple with what actually happened between Emma and Chris.
