Convinced the world at large can’t be trusted to prioritize the well-being of adolescent girls in the event of a cataclysmic event, a determined troupe of preteen “doomers” commit to preparing for survival in the post-collapse society they anticipate inheriting. What they discover changes everything—eighth grade will never be the same. A darkly comic coming-of-age story for complicated times is for any young woman who has ever been told that she is “too much,” or that what she fears is illegitimate, or that what she has to say is less important than keeping the peace.
Robbie: page 15 & 74. Sarah: page 20 and 47. Maureen: page 37 & 81. Vic: page 64 & 75. Jo: page 68 & 79.
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2019, Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon
2021
Playwrights Canada Press
9780369102386
NOTE FROM READER: Diversity in casting is encouraged. Actors of any age could play these roles. The characters are 13 years old but the playwright describes this play as a piece about young people for adults. While the characters are young they discuss things with a maturity far beyond their years. The play was Playwrights Guild of Canada, 2022 SureFire Selection and a finalist for the Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Award from ATHE (the Association for Theatre in Higher Education).
NOTE FROM READER: Diversity in casting is encouraged. Actors of any age could play these roles. The characters are 13 years old but the playwright describes this play as a piece about young people for adults. While the characters are young they discuss things with a maturity far beyond their years. The play was Playwrights Guild of Canada, 2022 SureFire Selection and a finalist for the Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Award from ATHE (the Association for Theatre in Higher Education).
Realistic
Who you Callin Black Eh? is a coming of age play set in Canada’s largest, most multicultural, multilingual city, that is not about sexuality, but about colour. Wherever Our Heroine goes, she is not Black Enough or White Enough to find her people.
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.
