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Kit Brennan

KIT BRENNAN  

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Kit Brennan's award-winning plays have been produced across Canada. Her play, Spring Planting, won the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Literary award. Kit lives in Montreal, where she is a faculty member and coordinates the playwriting program at Concordia University's Department of Theatre.

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

 Baggage         Differents, The         Having         Hunger Striking         Lola Shuffles The Cards         Magpie         Spring Planting         Tiger's Heart         World's Biggest

Baggage

Synopsis:
an island parable for the disenchanted. Somewhere in the Pacific, two plane-wrecked urbanites and an exiled island woman discover they must learn to survive together. Mayhem ensues as they disentangle their verbal, cultural, and literal baggage.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
University of alberta, Edmonton.    1993

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

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Differents, The

Synopsis:
When Grant moves to a new town, reality seems to slip a notch. a fantastical tale which shows that different can be a good thing - after all, they could be your next door neighbours.

Notes:
Roles Are doubled, may be played with more than 7 Actors

1st Produced:
Lakeland College, Lloydminster    1993

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

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Having

Kit Brennan
Having dramatizes our progressive society and its materialistically-driven values and cyber-navigated spaces within a romantic arch of 18th-century poetry and the motif of the "highwayman." Contemporary lives raging with ambition, self-destructive tendencies and the fight for freedom and control are played out in a high-tech world set in the mystical ambience conjured by the "moors."

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1st Produced:
Centaur Theatre, Montreal, Quebec.    1999

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Magpie, Having, Hunger Striking, Signature Editions
Nuage Editions, 1999   978-0921833-64-2

Music:
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Genre:
Full-length one-act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Hunger Striking

Kit Brennan
In Hunger Striking Sarah's student, Katie, has just died of anorexia. Her death propels Sarah into her own memories, taking her from her present day reality as a high school English teacher into multiple pasts: her own past as an anorexic girl twenty years earlier, her Celtic heritage with its vivid creatures and mythology passed on to her by her father, and the world of the hunger-striking suffragettes at the beginning of the last century.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Magpie, Having, Hunger Striking, Signature Editions   978-0921833-64-2

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lola Shuffles The Cards

Kit Brennan
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Two Hands Clapping, Signature Editions   978-1897109-15-1

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 actors

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Magpie

Kit Brennan
In Magpie, winner of the Grain Drama award, we meet Bernice, large, middle-aged, and prone to fantasies. Her small-town life is disrupted by the arrival of a gifted dance instructor. He is everything she aspires to be and that her background rejects as frivolous. The men in her life, husband, doctor and evangelist preacher, cannot keep her in the confines of her reality, and her fantasy world escalates into a place that is much larger and more exciting than life.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Twenty-Fifth Street Theatre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan    1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Magpie, Having, Hunger Striking, Signature Editions
Nuage Editions, 1999   978-0921833-64-2

Music:
-

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Genre:
Full-length one-act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Spring Planting

Synopsis:
although her husband has been dead for three years, Jill cannot let go. When Jill's daughter Caroline runs away from her mother and their new home, and returns to the protection of the old neighbour who loves her, Jill is forced to let in the future. ". . .utterly convincing in its portrayal of the ever-changing family dynamic. . ." - The Halifax Chronicle-Herald

Notes:
won the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Literary Award

1st Produced:
Ship's Company Theatre, Nova Scotia.    1997

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Nuage Editions, 1998   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tiger's Heart

Synopsis:
England, 1815. a young woman disguises herself as a man so that she may be allowed to study medecine. Ten years later "Dr. James Barry", a military doctor and physician to the British Governor of South Africa, faces the contradictions of living behind her mask, and must ultimately confront her own "tiger's heart". "Kit Brennan's true tale about Dr. James Barry. . .is masterfully written." - The Halifax Chronicle-Herald

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1st Produced:
Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa.    1995

Organisations:
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1st Published:
G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama),    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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World's Biggest

Synopsis:
In a wild attempt to attract tourist dollars, the small but enterprising town of Gurkin decides to erect a gigantic pickle to raise community pride and save the town's economy. Unfortunately, there's something rotten about the whole deal

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Lloydminster alberta    1995

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

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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