Grade 12 Drama Showcase Schedule
The Grade 12 Plays – A Collection of Eight Modern Canadian Works from our Graduating Students in the Drama Department
Showtimes: 4pm & 7pm on the dates listed. Both plays listed play at 4pm and 7pm. A short intermission will occur between each play.
Location: The Mini-Theatre
Admission is free.
Wednesday, May 8th
Kreskinned
by Michael Healey
Kreskinned is a one-act comedy asking the important question, what if you could hypnotize your partner into forgetting every time you’ve done something wrong?
Insomnia
by Daniel Brooks and Guillermo Verdecchia
John is a man skeptical to the point of tyranny. So rigorously demanding of the world and himself that he has lost the power to sleep, he is driving himself and his wife to distraction. “Insomnia” asks, do healthy skepticism and reasonable doubt turn into paranoia and paralysis?
Thursday, May 9th
Drowning Girls
by Beth Graham
Bessie, Alice and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith, and they are dead. Surfacing from the bathtubs they were drowned in, the three breathless brides gather evidence against their womanizing, murderous husband by reliving the shocking events leading up to their deaths. Reflecting on the misconceptions of love, married life, and the not-so-happily ever after, The Drowning Girls is both a breathtaking fantasia and a social critique, full of rich images, a myriad of characters, and lyrical language.
Therac 25
by Adam Pettle
The Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited in the mid 1980’s. The play Therac 25 stages a developing romance in the halls of a cancer treatment unit. The autobiographical scenario (Pettle received extensive treatment for thyroid cancer in the early 1990s) is handled with directness, honesty and gentle but relentless gallows humour.
Monday, May 13th
Never Swim Alone
by Daniel McIvor
Never Swim Alone is a swift, funny satire about two Alpha-males and their ruthless competition for the title of Top Dog. The play is structured as a surreal egotistic boxing match: Frank and Bill, two guys in dark suits and bad ties, square off in a 13 round Battle Royale of vicious undermining and one-upmanship.
Risk Everything
by George F. Walker
Carol’s face is covered with cuts, she has a black eye, and her ankle is bandaged. That is how she arrives at the motel room. Her predilection for gambling and money brings her and the people around her into serious trouble. She borrowed thirty five thousand dollars from a guy, Steamboat Jeffries, in order to double the money. He finds out what has happened and threatens her life.
Wednesday May 15th
The Pessimist
by Morwyn Brebner
Brebner places us in a farmhouse somewhere in Ontario where a dying theatre director Marcus has decided to stage a play at a nearby garbage dump. His wife Suzanne is happily having an affair with the live-in playwright until Marcus brings home a buxom local teenager to be the star. Meanwhile, an inexperienced political candidate keeps dropping by and the insomniac Suzanne keeps seeing mysterious things in the dark.
The Dream of the Burning Boy
by David West Read
Since the sudden death of his favorite student, high-school teacher Larry Morrow has been falling asleep at his desk and dreaming. The school’s guidance counselor is hanging inspirational posters designed to help everyone “process their emotions.” The student’s sister and friends—more agitated and hormonal than usual—find little solace in Dante’s Inferno.