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Fringe Theatre

The Quest Plays

Co-author/collaborative writer
Produced by Brian Hayden and performed on The Fraser Common Farm, Aldergrove, BC
  • Persephone & Hades (2020)
  • The Green Turkish Knight (2019)
  • Robin Hood (2018)
  • King Midas and his Golden Touch (2017)
  • The Riddles of King Heithrek (2016)
  • Sigurd and the Golden Ring (2015)
  • Culhwch & Olwen (2014)
  • The Green Knight (2013)
  • The Raven Princes (2012)
  • The Sword in the Stone (2011)
  • Tamlin (2010)
  • The Trials of Perseus (2009)
  • The Odyssey of Odysseus (2008)
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Short works

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Malleus, incus, stapes
Amidst the dust and weathered bones, an archaeologist assembles the fragments of a life.
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Dramatic monologue, 15 min
Solo Collective, staged reading, Vancouver, 2008; Estrogenius Sola Voce Festival, Manhattan Theatre Source, New York, 2006; London One Act Festival, London, Ontario, 2006

Ex
Drama, Cast: 2, 10 minutes
Staged Reading, Playwrights, Cabaret, The Grand Theatre, London, Ontario, 2003

One & Other
Work pressure blinds One to the needs of Other.
Drama, Cast: 2, 20 minutes
Bailiwick Repertory Directors’ Festival, Chicago, 2003;
Purple Shorts One Act Festival 2002; London One Act Festival, 2002

L’Un et L’Autre translation by Lola Tostevin
Workshop reading, University of Western Ontario, 2004

Mettle
Drama, Cast: 2, 25 minutes
A man retired from an organization that viciously defends "the greater good" is drawn back into that dark world by a former protege.
University of Western Ontario, 2002;  The Arts Project Writer’s Workshop, Staged Reading, London, Ontario, 2002

Still
Drama, Cast: 3, 25 minutes
A couple’s inner crisis at a time of loss, set against a portrait of a home and landscape.  Stage adaptation of bp Nichol's prose novel STILL.
London One Act Festival, 2003; University of Western Ontario 2002

Random Wanton Acts of Shakespeare
Street theatre, ByWard Market, Ottawa, 1996

The Fishbowl
Vancouver Little Theatre, 1995

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One Man Romeo & Juliet
Love, dance, duels & death!  A fiery distillation of Shakespeare’s classic.  One performer.  Twelve roles.
Dramatic monologue, 50 minutes
Victoria Fringe Festival 2008

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Jericho in the Morning Light
"It's wasteful—bleeding everywhere like everywhere's got a place for your blood."
Jericho must find almost-sister Ecstasy by sunrise. 
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Drama, Cast: 10, 90 minutes
London Fringe Theatre Festival, 2005; Reading, London Public Library, 2004; Staged Reading (excerpt), Playwrights, Cabaret, The Grand Theatre, London, Ontario, 2004

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Tremor
“These lines on paper are not so simple.”  An artist's work with a new model opens old wounds.
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Drama, Cast: 2, 50 minutes
Most Daring Production, London Fringe Festival, 2006
Final Draught Reading Series, Vancouver, 2008; Edmonton, London and Toronto Fringe Theatre Festivals, 2006 (as "Petr's Boy); London Fringe Theatre Festival, 2004; Community Arts Investment Grant, London, Ontario, 2006

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Intersection

A student’s life is forever altered the split second after a stop light turns green.
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Dramatic monologue, 50 minutes
London and  Vancouver Fringe Theatre Festivals, 2003; London One Act Festival 2002; Purple Shorts Festival, London, Ontario, 2002

New works

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small bones
(three part version of malleus, incus, stapes)

The archaeologist, the student and the actor
Dramatic monologues

Redbird Bluesky
A flame-red bird falls from the sun and befriends young Button.
Drama, Cast: 4, 90 minutes
Final Draught Reading Series, Vancouver,  2008

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