Chrissie and Jeremy have spent a great deal of time in shock, waiting—for news of their baby daughter’s post-operation recovery, for weekly scans to show that her tumour is gone, for robotic forty-five-second updates from their brilliant but arrogant neuro-oncologist. The hospital waiting room has become a second home where they struggle separately as parents and as a couple, where they laugh inappropriately, lose tempers, and find resilience as they confront a roller coaster of hope and despair and a crisis of decision-making. And just beyond the waiting room, the specialist faces his own dark and risky medical dilemma. Waiting Room examines medical ethics, compassion, gallows humour, and humanity in a life-threatening situation.
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2015, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto
2016
Playwrights Canada Press
9781770915640
Realistic
In 2008, fifteen year old Oxnard, California resident Lawrence King asked a boy in his class to be his valentine. The next day that boy shot and killed him during first period. My Funny Valentine explores the ripple effect hate has on a community by following fictional characters on the fringes of the murder who are forever changed because of it. -- Artist website.
Solo Show
Brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles try to cope with their father’s abusive whims and their mother’s recent suicide. They huff gas and pull destructive pranks. Preyed upon by Trickster and his own fragile psyche, Wind looks for a way out, one that might lead him into his mother’s shadow.
