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Catherine A Banks

CATHERINE A BANKS

  (1957 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Catalyst TCM Inc  

photo by Alex Macaulay photographic. Catherine Banks was born in Nova Scotia in 1957. Her interest in writing began early. Her love of Drama and her understanding of its power comes from time spent in her grandmother's kitchen, listening to her stories/r

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below is a list of Catherine A Banks's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bitter Rose         Bone Cage         Eula's Offer         Hockey Sisters         It Is Solved By Walking         Summer Of the Piping Plover, The         Three Storey, Ocean View

Bitter Rose

Synopsis:
Barricaded in the basement family room Rose (43) examines her life, slowly exploring a betrayal. Rose is an artist without a body of work. For 16 years Rose has made small life choices (she thought) but on the morning her professor husband leaves to meet a female graduate student Rose realizes she has betrayed the girl-artist within. Bitter Rose is a painfully funny, brutally honest play about women artists' burning desire to create and what happens to creative women who also take on being a mother and a wife.

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1st Produced:
Women's Theatre And Creativity Centre, Halifax     2000

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2001   

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
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Bone Cage

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1st Produced:
Script Lab, Toronto     2003

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Eula's Offer

Synopsis:
Teenage eula has had a baby. Her boyfriend does not want to know and she has trouble looking after it. Her childless brother wants to have the child

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Genre:
One act Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Hockey Sisters

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It Is Solved By Walking

Synopsis:
A woman when she hears that her first husband has died looks back at how they met

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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press 2002   

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Genre:
One act

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Summer Of the Piping Plover, The

Synopsis:
a "back to the land" Nova Scotian family tries to deal with the complexities and ambiguities of modern life

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1st Produced:
Upstart Theatre, Halifax     1991

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Three Storey, Ocean View

Synopsis:
Thinking that Ruth's frequent request to "go to the water" a longing to return to her happy youth, Peg has brought her ailing mother to Nova Scotia. Peg sees the old house by the sea as refuge, a place to begin again with 14-year-old Zoe. However, when Ruth enters the house the women who once inhabited it play out their stories. In the end, Ruth chooses grace over pain thereby offering Peg and Zoe a small beginning

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1st Produced:
Mulgrave Road Theatre, Ns.     2000

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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2003   

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  10            Other:  -

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