The Grade 12 Plays – A Collection of Eight Modern Canadian Works from our Graduating Students in the Drama Department
Showtimes: Both plays listed play at 4pm and 7pm. A short intermission will occur between each play.
Location: The Mini-Theatre
Admission is free.
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.