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DAVID JAMES BROCK
Nationality: Canadian
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David James Brock is a playwright, poet, and librettist whose plays and operas have been performed in cities across Canada and the UK. He is the winner of the 2011 Herman Voaden Canadian National Playwriting Award. Brock penned the libretto for The Sloans Project (composer: Gareth Williams), which was most recently performed at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (previous: Glasgows 2011 Merchant City Festival, Tapestry New Operas 2011/2012 season). Other highlights include libretto for Sewing the Earthworm for the Canadian Art Song Project (Toronto, 2011. Composer: Brian Harman) and Pretty Boy for the Paul Dresher Ensemble (San Francisco, 2012. Composer: Jack Perla). Brocks debut poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, was released by publisher Wolsak & Wynn in spring 2014. He is currently working with Scottish Opera on Breath Cycle, a multimedia operatic song cycle developed with cystic fibrosis patients. He lives in Toronto and can be found on
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Ambassador Bridge Centre of the Universe Lycanthrope and the Leprechaun, The Perfect Hands of the Irresistible Ed, The Pretty Boy Sewing the Earthworm Sloans Project, The Snow Bride WetAmbassador Bridge
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A woman sits in a run-down Detroit graveyard and contemplates moving her late husbands bones across the border to Windsor, where it all seems a little bit safer.
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Victoria Fringe Festival (BumbleBee Theatre Collective), Toronto 2006
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Top of PageCentre of the Universe
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The CN Tower has collapsed after an organized attack on Toronto. Four people who were in a bar when the attack happened have been cut off from the rest of the world. The last communication they received: stay indoors. Wondering who would attack the cityand whyfour people contemplate survival, sex, death, and the lives they no longer have.
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Labyrinth Lounge, 298 Brunswick Ave, Toronto Fringe Festival 02 Jul 2014
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60 min drama
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Top of PageLycanthrope and the Leprechaun, The
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In order for a Doctor to gain access to a patient who believes that he is a werewolf, a Doctor must appear as a leprechaun.
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Vancouver Island One Act Play Festival. Qualicum Beach BC 2005
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Top of PagePerfect Hands of the Irresistible Ed, The
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Based on the first baseball players strike in 1912, this play tells the story of the replacement players who filled in for the striking Detroit Tigers, who protested Ty Cobbs suspension.
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1st Produced:
Theatre Ones Emerging Voices Festival, Nanaimo BC 2006
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Top of PagePretty Boy
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composer Jack Perla, libretto David James Brock
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San francisco 2012
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Paul Dresher Ensemble
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musical
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Top of PageSewing the Earthworm
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composer Brian Harman, libretto David James Brock
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Canadian Art Song Project, Toronto 2011
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musical
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Top of PageSloans Project, The
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composer Gareth Williams, libretto David James Brock
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Glasgows Merchant City Festival, 2011
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Top of PageSnow Bride
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No one shows up for Helenas bachelorette party, so she invites the only friend she has left: cocaine. Alone on the night before her wedding, she reflects on her past and toasts to a new life. She wants to be different after tomorrow. Helena hopes for an intervention, but maybe its too late.
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1st Produced:
Uno Festival of Solo Performance (Victoria BC) 2005
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Top of PageWet
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She goes to war, and he stays home. When she returns with an injury, she cant be touched. She wont be touched. If he could just touch her. But she is dry, and he is wet. Unannounced, Captain Tom Fitzgerald arrives. Tom once saved her life but now disrupts it. Tom has PTSD. Tom loves porn. And Tom loves war.
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1st Produced:
Toronto Fringe Festival (WORKhouse Theatre) 2010
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