
Realistic
Smoked Glass Ceiling
A little Black girl from the US South lives through the civil rights era, becomes a broadcast executive in Canada and tells all.

"A wealthy businessman wakes up bound and gagged in a utility shed, kidnapped by his own employees—brothers and icemen Joe and Rennie. In the midst of the Great Depression, the brothers’ ice harvesting livelihood in Kempenfelt Bay is melting away due to the advent of refrigeration, only to further line the pockets of their employers. Desperate to claim what is rightfully theirs, these honest workers turned reluctant captors will stop at nothing to bring their greedy boss to a final reckoning. ICEMEN by Governor General’s Literary Award–winning playwright Vern Thiessen is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that exposes the human cost of capitalism and asks, when the wealthy exploit the working class, who are the real criminals?" - from the publisher
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2023, Fire Points Theatre,
2025
Playwrights Canada Press
9780369105424

Realistic
A little Black girl from the US South lives through the civil rights era, becomes a broadcast executive in Canada and tells all.

Realistic
Who Said I Don’t Want to Dance is a stage play which follows the life of GINA, a young widow mourning the death of her beloved husband, Sipho. It explores an aspect of some ancient Southern African cultures, whereby if a woman wants to keep resources acquired during her marriage, she must find a suitor among the late husband’s clan. Unknown to her people and to GINA: herself, Sipho’s death has sparked the rediscovering of her ambitions and politics, her identity and sexuality, and the yearning she has to explore the land beyond her rural home. This story explores the African woman’s subjugation and oppression in a patriarchal society.