Playwrights Canada Press, Spring 2012
Book Launch for The Romeo Initiative to be held May 7 at Revival Bar on College Street, Toronto Ontario.
The Romeo Initiative will be one of the books launched at Playwrights Canada Press’ Spring Launch to be held Monday May 7th at 6:30 p.m. at the Revival Bar, 783 College Street. The event will be include readings by several playwrights, including Catherine Banks, Robert Chafe, Ronnie Burkett and myself. If you’re in Toronto that night, stop by and say hello.
Romeo has been selected from hundreds of plays around the world to be featured at the Women Playwrights International Conference in Sweden this August. The play was also recently shortlisted for the HotInk Festival of International Plays in NYC.
Hello and Welcome to my New Website!
It has been a while in the making, but it is finally realized. Special thanks go out to Paul Bellows (yellowpencil.com), Jeff Sylvester (cut and paste design), Gunnar Blodgett and Clinton Carew (heightsresidential.com) who were very generous with their time and expertise in making this happen. I will be updating this site regularly.
So…let’s get caught up! So much has happened. 2011 has been a very busy year. The Romeo Initiative opened at Alberta Theatre Projects, Shatter was produced in Edmonton and St. Catherine’s Ontario, Waxworks was workshopped at Theatre Calgary, and The Apartment was just featured as part of Amnesty International’s event at the Vancouver Fringe. The Maggie Tree’s production of Shatter was nominated for three Edmonton Sterling Awards. Some great reviews came in, and they are excerpted below:
The Romeo Initiative
ATP 2011, Photo: Trudi Lee
“Play has a seductive hook, digging into one of the hotter chapters in Cold War Germany…August Strindberg wrote that ‘Love between a man and woman is war’, but Davies suggests it is actually a Cold War full of anxiety, paranoia and double agents…One of the play’s more provocative questions is: Can a man both love a woman and betray her? Goutsis’ humane performance suggests the answer is yes – but that doesn’t stop Davies from dishing him out his just desserts too.”
Globe and Mail
“Play delivers a swift kick in the heart.”
Calgary Herald
“I’m not sure the Enbridge PlayRites Festival could have chosen a better play for their 25th anniversary and their 100th premiere.”
Avenue Magazine
Shatter
“Shatter is a thoroughly engrossing, haunting performance, and one that you will be unable to forget or cast aside for some time to come.”
Vue Magazine
“Shatter unfolds close to the heart, splintering it into a million pieces as it follows the prejudiced upshot of the 1917 Halifax explosion…[the production is] a living, breathing gem.”
St Albert Gazette
