"We all want to meet that special someone, but it's so hard to let yourself be vulnerable. Dave really wants to meet a special lady but his awkwardness always seems to get in the way. Elaine has been too shy to ever come out of her shell. When they meet, sparks fly in the wrong direction and their friends Mark and Sabina try against all odds to keep it from falling apart. Luckily Eva they waitress is smarter than all of them and fits all the broken pieces together. Set in a backdrop of classic Casablanca movie quotes, Elaine makes a heartfelt admission of her greatest fear. "What's worse, dying of a lonely heart or a broken one?" The only way to find out is by visiting Paris." - from the publisher
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2021, Belleville Theatre Guild, Belleville Ontario
2023
Canadian Play Outlet
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Casting note: Any of the characters can be any age as long as we assume they are Casablanca move buffs. The play works best if the cast is over 40 and the character Dave is slightly overweight.
Casting note: Any of the characters can be any age as long as we assume they are Casablanca move buffs. The play works best if the cast is over 40 and the character Dave is slightly overweight.
Stylized
The surprise visit of 30-something writer to her birthplace, Sydney Nova Scotia with her black biker-dyke lover. Terry's trip home after a 6 year absence ends with her official coming-out scene with her mother and aunt/grandmother. One of the first lesbian coming-out plays in Canada
Plays with music
"Fifteen years to the day after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out to the place where it happened: an old fishing spot on the river down Dangerous Passes Road. Each sibling is facing a crucial rite of passage: Carl, the youngest, is to be married later in the day and it is this occasion that has brought the three of them together. Ambrose is losing his lover to AIDS. Victor, the eldest, has just left his second failed marriage. They have never really spoken with each other because they all have their own individual secrets to hide and because they share an ambivalence about the death of their father. Could they have prevented it? Would they have wanted to save the town drunk, dreamer, poet, fisherman, the man who embarrassed them in front of their friends and locked them in the sentimental prison of his poems? Are they ready, finally, to reveal themselves to each other and move on with their lives? Can they survive this unsparing encounter with their own manhood? In voices that interweave, alternate and play off one another with the exquisite lyricism of chamber music, the brothers reveal themselves as trapped by their father’s inability to let his boys grow up and their own inability to accept him as an adult." - from the publisher
