![]() In Magpie ( 25th Street Theatre), a middle-aged woman fantasies an alternative life when a dance instructor arrives in her small town. Hunger Striking ( Theatre Passe Muraille) examines anorexia from a personal and historical perspective: When one of her students dies of anorexia, a high school English teacher recalls her own multiple pasts: her own past as an anorexic girl twenty years earlier, her Celtic heritage with its vivid creatures and mythology passed on to her by her father, and the world of the hunger-striking suffragettes at the beginning of the twentieth century. Spring Planting (Ship's Company, Western Canada Theatre Company) tells the story of two neighbours, an elderly man and a young woman, whose spouses have died, and who are experiencing anger and guilt, while their respective grandson and daughter have their own problems, which erupt into violence. ![]() It has been produced at Ship's Company Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company, and at the Women in View Festival and is the winner of the Canadian National Playwriting Competition, 1994. James Barry, a military doctor and physician to the British Governor of South Africa, who as a young woman had disguised herself as a man so that she could study medicine. Her eight published plays include Tiger's Heart, which portrays the conflicted life of Dr. She was playwright in residence at Centaur Theatre (1997-98). Since 1993, she coordinated the playwriting program for Concordia University in Montreal currently she is Professor Emeritus. ![]() She graduated from Queen's University with an Arts degree in English and drama in 1990, and from University of Alberta with an MFA. Playwright and novelist, Kathleen (Watters) Brennan was born in 1958 in Vancouver British Columbia, and grew in Kingston Ontario, where her father was an English professor at the Royal Military College.
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