SALLY CLARK (1953 - )
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by Sally Clark
Jehanne Of The Witches |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Christianity vs. Paganism provides the backdrop for this play-within-a-play centering on the relationship between Joan of Arc and the reputed mass murderer, Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard). | |||||
Life Without Instruction |
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Plus Toronto | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Based on a true story and a real trial, this presents a woman's struggle for freedom, identity and dignity. Artemisia Fentileshi's father, the late-Renaissance painter Orazio Gentileschi, takes the unusual step of having his daughter trained in the art of painting under the instruction of his friend Agostino Tassi. Tassi rapes Artemisia, and is taken to trial by both Artemisia and Orazio, but - as usual - the person really on trial in this rape case is the women, who is politically humiliated and tortured. But this only strengths Artemisia's determination to become an independent woman, artist and painter | |||||
Lost Souls and Missing Persons |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Tragical-comical | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A housewife and mother goes missing while on holiday in New York City. As her husband searches for her, she becomes a gibberish-speaking street person. Flashbacks of her past alternate with scenes from her present | |||||
Moo |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, 1989 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Black Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | When the feisty and rebellious Moragh (Moo) meets the intriguing Harry, she decides nothing will ever separate them . . . and Harry has been running ever since. A black comedy about obsession | |||||
Saint Frances Of Holywood |
| 1st Produced: | The Canadian Stage Theatre, Toronto. | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
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| Synopsis: | Hollywood diva Frances Farmer chooses to join the socialist Group Theatre in New York. She becomes incarcerated in a Seattle psychiatric hospital, where she was lobotomized and released as "cured" in 1949. | |||||
Ten Ways To Abuse An Old Woman |
| 1st Produced: | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto. | 1983 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A black-hearted look at the relationship between a woman and her elderly mother. | |||||
Trial Of A Ladies Man |
| 1st Produced: | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, Ontario. | 1987 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Four women get revenge on the "Ladies Man". | |||||
Trial Of Judith K |
| 1st Produced: | Canadian Stage Company, Toronto. | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Black Comedy | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Roughly based on Kafka's "The Trial." Judith K. finds herself accused of an unknown crime. The harder she delves into the bureaucratic nightmare, the more firmly she is bound by it, and the more obscure the reasons for her conviction become. | |||||
WASPS |
| 1st Produced: | Factory Theatre Studio Cafe, Toronto, Ontario. | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedic Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Val McIntosh, a sane, sensible librarian, marries in haste and repents at leisure. A drawing-room farce for distempered times | |||||