JAMES REANEY (1926 - 2008)
| Nationality: | Canadian |
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Plays by James Reaney
Aladdin and The Magic Lamp |
| 1st Produced: | Western Fall Fair, London, Ontario | 1965 | ||||
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| Genre: | marionette plays | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | Aladdin rubs the lamp of his dreams and wishes | |||||
Alice in Wonderland |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Disque Americ (CD101) | 1994 | ||||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | Music by Keith Thomas | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Alice Through the Looking Glass |
| 1st Produced: | Avon Theatre, Stratford Festival, Ontario. | 1994 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 11 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | also published in Reaney Days in the West Room, ed David Ferry, Playwrights Canada Press, 2009 | |||||
| Synopsis: | A stage adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic | |||||
All The Bees And All The Keys |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Press Porcspic, Erin, Ontario, 1976 In Scripts: Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2004) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Concert work for children | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | Narrator and Symphony Orchestra required | |||||
| Notes: | concert work for children, for narrator and symphony orchestra; written by James Reaney, music by John Beckwith | |||||
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Antler River |
| 1st Produced: | London, Ontario | 1980 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Apple Butter |
| 1st Produced: | Western Fall Fair, London, Ontario | 1965 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talonbooks in Apple Butter and Other Plays for Children, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | marionette play for children | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A play about an orphan, set in the 1890's on an Ontario farm | |||||
At the Big Carwash |
| 1st Produced: | toured with the Caravan Stage Company, Armstrong, B.C | 1979 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | puppet play | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Bacchae, The |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | 1963 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Euripides | |||||
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Baldoon |
| 1st Produced: | Bathurst Street Theatre, Toronto | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | NDWT Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ontario, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | 978-0889840164 | |||
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| Genre: | Full Length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | written by James Reaney and C.H. Gervais | |||||
![]() | McTavish sees the poltergeists who assail him in his house in the woods not as outside forces of evil but as emanations from his own disclaimed past | |||||
Canada Tree, The |
| 1st Produced: | Girl Guide Heritage Camp, Morrison Island, Ontario | 1967 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Canadian Brothers, The |
| 1st Produced: | Workshopped at University Of Western Ontario Drama Workshop, London, Ontario | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | NDWT Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984", Irwin, Toronto, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Colours In The Dark |
| 1st Produced: | Avon Theatre, Stratford Festival | 1967 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talonbooks-Macmillan, Vancouver and Toronto, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1b 1g | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Set in a magical tobacco, a series of images, poems and memories evoke the terrors and delights of childhood | |||||
Crazy To Kill |
| 1st Produced: | Guelph Spring Festival, Ontario | 1989 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | In Scripts: Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2004) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | A Detective Opera | Opera | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Puppets are required. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Based on the mystery novel of the same title by Ann Cardwell of Stratford, Ontario | |||||
Death And Execution Of Frank Halloway, The; Or, The First Act Of John Richardson's Wacousta |
| 1st Produced: | Timmins, Ontario | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Jubilee 4", Wingham, Ontario, 1978 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Notes: | aka Wacousta! | |||||
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Dismissal, The; Or, Twisted Beards And Tangled Whiskers |
| 1st Produced: | Hart House Theatre, Toronto | 1977 | ||||
| Company: | NDWT Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Press Porcspic, Erin, Ontario, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Full Length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Don't Sell Mr Aesop |
| 1st Produced: | Grand Theatre, London, Ontario | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Easter Egg, The |
| 1st Produced: | workshopped by University of Western Ontario | 1962 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Masks of Childhood", New Press, Toronto, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Three Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Genesis |
| 1st Produced: | Alpha Centre, London, Ontario | 1968 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Gentle Rain Food Co-op , The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Ergo Press, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A play about an eccentric food co-op and a fanatic on a university campus | |||||
Geography Match |
| 1st Produced: | Middlesex College Theatre, London, Ontario | 1967 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Apple Butter and Other Plays", Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Childrens 1 Act | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A geography contest between two groups of school children turns into a thirty-day trip across Canada | |||||
Gyroscope |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1981 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights, Toronto, 1983 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | also published in Reaney Days in the West Room, ed David Ferry, Playwrights Canada Press, 2009 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Spinning images; a model for the loose threads, empty caves, war memorials . . . dreams, confrontations that living with other people involve | |||||
Handcuffs |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1975 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Press Porcspic, Erin, Ontario, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Full Length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | part of The Donnellys : A Trilogy | |||||
| Synopsis: | People openly and secretly manacle the Donnelly family in order to murder them | |||||
I The Parade |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1982 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Ignoramus |
| 1st Produced: | Second Theatre, London, Ontario | 1966 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Apple Butter and Other Plays", Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy for Children | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A comic look at the theories of progressive child education | |||||
Killdeer, The |
| 1st Produced: | University College Alumnae, Toronto | 1960 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Killdeer and Other Plays", Macmillan, Toronto, 1962 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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King Whistle! |
| 1st Produced: | Stratford, Ontario | 1979 | ||||
| Company: | Drama Club of Central Secondary School | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Brick 8", Ilderton, Ontario, Winter, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Childrens | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Let's Make A Carol |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Waterloo Music, Waterloo, Ontario, 1965 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Childrens with music | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | music by Alfred Kunz | |||||
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Listen To The Wind |
| 1st Produced: | Summer Theatre, at Althouse College, London, | 1966 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Three Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 1b 1g | |||||
| Notes: | also published in Reaney Days in the West Room, ed David Ferry, Playwrights Canada Press, 2009 | |||||
| Synopsis: | In a Perth County farmhouse during the thirties a boy and his friends decide to spend the summer putting on plays, including an adaptation of a Victorian novel. Two stories unfold, intertwine and illuminate each other | |||||
Little Red Riding Hood |
| 1st Produced: | Western Fall Fair, London, Ontario | 1965 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | marionette play for children | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Masque |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto | 1972 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Simon and Pierre, Toronto, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Rod Cameron | |||||
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Names And Nicknames |
| 1st Produced: | 1963 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | New Plays For Children, Rowayton, Connecticut, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | children's play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | also published in Reaney Days in the West Room, ed David Ferry, Playwrights Canada Press, 2009 | |||||
| Synopsis: | An old grump's attempts to blight the lives of Farmer Dell's children, by giving them nasty names, is thwarted at the christening of their third child | |||||
Night-Blooming Cereus |
| 1st Produced: | Hart House Theatre, Toronto | 1960 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Killdeer and Other Plays", Macmillan, Toronto, 1962 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | libretto for a chamber opera in 1 Act | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written by James Reaney, music by John Beckwith, broadcast 1959 | |||||
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One-Man Masque |
| 1st Produced: | Hart House Theatre, Toronto | 1960 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Killdeer and Other Plays", Macmillan, Toronto, 1962 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Solo | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | National Library of Scotland ref: Traverse - Dep.256/Box 56/4 | |||||
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Rules of Joy, The |
| 1st Produced: | Unproduced | 1958 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
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Serinette |
| 1st Produced: | Sharon Temple, Sharon, Ontario | 1990 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | In Scripts: Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | libretto for an opera | Opera in two acts | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Shivaree, The |
| 1st Produced: | Town Hall, St Lawrence Centre, Toronto | 1982 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | In Scripts: Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comic Opera in Two Acts | Opera | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written by James Reaney, music by John Beckwith. Sharon Temple, Sharon, Ontario, 1990 | |||||
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Sleigh Without Bells: a ghost story about the Donnellys |
| 1st Produced: | London Regional Art & Historical Muserum, London, Ontario. | 1987 | ||||
| Company: | David Smiths Puppet Productions and Rag and Bone Puppet Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
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| Synopsis: | A young German from Hibbert twp Perth County is sent by his father to take some money to a farmer in Southwold twp; he is warned to avoid driving his sleigh through Biddulph twp and its Irish settlement. In a blizzard he ends up at the Donnelly house and becomes heavily involved in their tragedy, barely escaping with his life. He is pursued by their ghosts, but crossing a river leaves them behind and arrives safely home. With surprise, we learn that he was dreaming this while sleeping near the ruins of the Donnelly farmhouse a year or two after their massacre | |||||
St Nicholas Hotel, The |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1974 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Press Porcspic, Erin, Ontario, 1976 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Full Length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | part of The Donnellys : A Trilogy. also published in Reaney Days in the West Room, ed David Ferry, Playwrights Canada Press, 2009 | |||||
| Synopsis: | In the battle for mastery of the road, William and Mike Donnelly make powerful enemies with their Opposition Stage line. Winner, Chalmers Canadian Play Award, 1974. | |||||
Sticks And Stones |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1973 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Canadian Theatre Review, Spring (CTR 2), 1974 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Full Length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 9 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | doubling | |||||
| Notes: | part of The Donnellys : A Trilogy | |||||
| Synopsis: | A family moves to Canada to escape prejudice and violence only to find the new land itself divided | |||||
Sun And The Moon, The |
| 1st Produced: | Summer Theatre, London, Ontario | 1965 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "The Killdeer and Other Plays", Macmillan, Toronto, 1962 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Three Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Taptoo! |
| 1st Produced: | McGill Opera Dept, Crane School of Music, Potsdam NY | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | In Scripts: Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2004) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Opera in two acts | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | by James Reaney music by John Beckwith. also published in Reaney Days in the West Room, ed David Ferry, Playwrights Canada Press, 2009 | |||||
| Synopsis: | The opera is based on events surrounding the establishment of the town of York, Upper Canada (now Toronto). | |||||
Three Desks |
| 1st Produced: | London Little Theatre, London, Ontario | 1967 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Masks of Childhood", New Press, Toronto, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Two Acts | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Wacousta |
| 1st Produced: | workshopped at University Drama Workshop, University of Western Ontario | 1976 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Full Length | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
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Zamorna |
| 1st Produced: | Toronto: George Brown Theatre | 1998 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | In Reaney Days in the West Room, ed. David Ferry (Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 2009) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | the George Brown College drama program under David Ferry's direction. also published in Reaney Days in the West Room, ed David Ferry, Playwrights Canada Press, 2009 | |||||
| Synopsis: | Based on the juvenilia of the Brontes. | |||||
