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Carol Bolt

CAROL BOLT

  (1941 - 2000)
Nationality:    Canadian
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nee Johnson

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         Bethune (Norman Bethune: On Board the Ss Empress Of Asia)         Bluebird, The         Buffalo Jump         Companeras         Cyclone Jack         Daganawida         Deadline         Desperadoes         Drama In the Classroom         Escape Entertainment         Famous         Fatso         Finding Bumble         Gabe         I Wish         Icetime         Love Or Money         Maurice         My Best Friend Is Twelve Feet High         Next Year Country         Okey Doke         One Night Stand         Pauline         Red Emma, Queen Of the Anarchists         Rosie Learns French         Shelter         Star Quality         Tangleflags         Tv Lounge         Waiting For Sandy

Bethune (Norman Bethune: On Board the Ss Empress Of Asia)

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1st Produced:
Muskoka Summer Theatre, Gravenhurst, Ontario     1976

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Bluebird, The

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story by Marie d'aulnoy

1st Produced:
St Lawrence Centre, Toronto     1973

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Black Box Theatre Company, Avoca, Ireland

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adaptation

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Buffalo Jump

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focuses on the estevan Riots, the Onto Ottawa trek and the Regina Riots.. .Canada, 1930-1936, with the Depression, dust storms, drought, the Dionne Quintuplets, relief camps, politicians and police. Free-wheeling, irreverent and funny

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aka Next Year Country

1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina     1971

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Playwrights, Toronto, 1972   

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Genre:
Historical

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Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Companeras

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    

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Play/Drama

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Cyclone Jack

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Tom Longboat the Native Canadian Indian who represented his country at the 1908 Olympics

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1st Produced:
Young People's Theatre, Toronto     1972

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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press 1972   

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Childrens Youth audience

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Daganawida

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Toronto Workshop Productions     1970

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Deadline

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1st Produced:
Toronto     1979

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Desperadoes

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Toronto Free Theatre     1977

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Drama In the Classroom

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    

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Escape Entertainment

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1st Produced:
Toronto     1981

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Playwrights, Toronto, 1981   

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Genre:
Comedy

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Famous

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    

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Fatso

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    

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Finding Bumble

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1st Produced:
Young People's Theatre, Toronto     1975

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Childrens Youth audience

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Gabe

Synopsis:
two half-breeds released from Prince albert penitentiary return to a small town near Batoche to rediscover the spirit of Louis Riel and his General, Gabriel Dumont

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Toronto Free theatre, 1973

1st Produced:
Algoma, Ontario     1972

Organisations:
algoma Youth Theatre

1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1973   

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Biographical

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I Wish

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as Carol Johnson

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Toronto     1966

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in "Upstage and Down", Macmillan, Toronto, 1968   

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Icetime

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    

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Love Or Money

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Maurice

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written 1973

1st Produced:
Young People's Theatre, Toronto     1974

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1st Published:
in Performing Arts Magazine, Winter, 1974   

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Childrens One act

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My Best Friend Is Twelve Feet High

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music by Jane Vasey

1st Produced:
Young People's Theatre, Toronto     1972

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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1972   

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Childrens One act

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Next Year Country

Synopsis:
focuses on the estevan Riots, the Onto Ottawa trek and the Regina Riots.. .Canada, 1930-1936, with the Depression, dust storms, drought, the Dionne Quintuplets, relief camps, politicians and police. Free-wheeling, irreverent and funny

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aka Buffalo jump

1st Produced:
Globe Theatre, Regina     1971

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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1972   

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Genre:
Historical

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Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Okey Doke

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1st Produced:
Queen's University Drama Department, Kingston, Ontario     1976

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One Night Stand

Synopsis:
a lonely woman celebrates her birthday with a charming stranger with murderous consequences

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1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto     1977

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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1977   

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Genre:
Thriller

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Pauline

Synopsis:
based on the poems of Pauline Johnson

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Red Emma, Queen Of the Anarchists

Synopsis:
the story of the young, romantic and fiery Emma Goldman, feminist and anarchist, whom J. Edgar Hoover called "the most dangerous woman in the world." a musical which centres on her youth in New York in the 1890's with events leading up to the assassination attempt on Henry Clay Frick

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1st Produced:
Toronto Free Theatre     1974

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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1974   

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Genre:
Musical Play Musical

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rosie Learns French

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Published,    

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Shelter

Synopsis:
Life and politics in Saskatchewan, and the role of women in public life. a finely written comedy about a widow who runs for Parliament in order to retain her late husband's seat and make a new life for herself. Throughout the farcical complications, a feminist view of life.

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1st Produced:
Firehall Theatre, Toronto     1974

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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1975   

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Genre:
Comedy

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Star Quality

Synopsis:
Backstage moments at the Miss Teenage Manitoba Contest

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part of the American Project: A compendium of short plays

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excerpt in "acta Victoriana", 102,2, 1978   

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Genre:
Short Play One act

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Tangleflags

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1st Produced:
Young People's Theatre, Toronto     1973

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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1972   

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Genre:
Childrens One act

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Tv Lounge

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1st Produced:
Redlight Theatre, Toronto     1977

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Waiting For Sandy

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