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Elaine Avila

ELAINE AVILA  

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Playwrights Guild of Canada  


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below is a list of Elaine Avila's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 At Water's Edge         Burn Gloom: Rituals On Millennium Eve         E-Mail From Howard Dean         Good Fooling         Lt Nun         Shoe!         Strike!

At Water's Edge

Synopsis:
a young couple hire a visionary architect to design their dream home - little knowing the trouble this will lead to.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Of Invention, Edmonton    2009

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Burn Gloom: Rituals On Millennium Eve

Synopsis:
December 31, 1999. 14 writers go out to report on Millennium Eve; from Chile to Montreal to Tasmania to africa to Canton. Burn Gloom is inspired by their stories and focuses on four main characters: a business woman whose Landrover breaks down in africa; a choreographer at an underground lesbian party in Singapore; a French socialite, and a New York policewoman preparing for possible terrorist attacks.

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1st Produced:
Theatre anima, Vancouver, BC    2001

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2002   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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E-Mail From Howard Dean

Synopsis:
a couple in Los angeles decided to take in survivors of Hurricane Katrina

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Good Fooling

Synopsis:
a Shakesperian clown

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-    2004

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Lt Nun

Synopsis:
17th century Spain. a nun disguises herself as a soldier and is sent to fight in the New World. Based on a true story

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Shoe!

Synopsis:
a power struggle in the world of women's shoes

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Title changed to "Quality" for London performance

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Theatre Of Invention, Edmonton    Jun 2007

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Strike!

Synopsis:
The killing of union activist Ginger Goodwin in 1918 sparked a general strike in Canada and brought the war effort to a standstill.

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