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Leanna Brodie

LEANNA BRODIE

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Kensington Literary Representation  represented by Michael Petrasek

Leanna Brodie is an actor, playwright, librettist, and translator who is known for creating complex, funny, and occasionally terrifying women. In forms that range from multimedia opera to rural pageant plays, she explores universal themes of love, courage, community. . . and cruelty. Her work includes For Home and Country, the Vic, and Schoolhouse, as well as the CBC radio Dramas Invisible City and Seeds of Our Destruction, and has been performed across Canada and the United States. Her numerous residencies have included the aCT/Hedgebrook Women Playwrights' Festival in Seattle as well as the Banff Playwrights Colony and the BLyth Festival, where she is Playwright-in-Residence.

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         Book Of Esther, The         For Home And Country         Schoolhouse         Vic, The

Book Of Esther, The

Synopsis:
the year is 1981, and everything is changing. In the rural community of Baker's Creek, stoic Seth Dalzell is struggling to hold onto his Century Farm. His devoutly evangelical Christian wife, anthea, is struggling to keep her family and their faith intact. Meanwhile in the big city, Todd Wishart provides a haven for troubled teens - including the bright and mischievous young hustler known as a.D. What on earth could these people have in common? Her name is esther Dalzell; she is fifteen years old; and she has just run away from home.

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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For Home And Country

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For Home and Country is a story of the sustaining power of women's friendships; and of the history of the Women's Institutes, which began as "the rural women's university" and became a powerful force for social and personal change. It's a celebration of an amazing piece of women's history, told with all the songs and pageantry of popular theatre: it's also an intimate tale of Judy, a jaded urban feminist, and Lorna, a strong-minded country woman, as they struggle to understand each other. above all, it's tremendous fun.

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history: pageant play: comedy with music (mostly a cappella), 135 min

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Male:  1            Female:  7            Other:  3-5 children. Total : 11 or as many as desired

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Schoolhouse

Synopsis:
the time: 1938. the place: S.S. 1 JEricho School, a one-room schoolhouse in a farming area just outside the fictional village of Baker's Creek. the story: a delightful but unmanageable group of children finally meets its match -- Melita Linton, an 18-year-old teacher fresh out of Normal School. But Miss Linton soon faces an even bigger challenge, in the form of ewart, a menacing and mysterious juvenile delinquent sent to "straighten out" on a farm after doing time in Battenville Training School. the play chronicles Miss Linton's struggle to connect with a boy who has shut down from everyone, including himself -- and to persuade their cautious, conservative, and close-knit community to open its arms to the troubled young man in their midst. With a clear-eyed and unsentimental gaze, Schoolhouse explores timeless themes of rejection, of compassion, of damage, of hope. at the same time, with genuine warmth and irrepressible humour, it brilliantly evokes a way of life shared by generations of rural people. the result is a rich and winning tale that has enchanted sold-out audiences in numerous productions. the play culminates in an unforgettable version of that most beloved of one-room school institutions: the annual Christmas concert.

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Perfect for either A small troupe of versatile character Actors or A large group of Adults And children, it can be done with various kinds of casting And various Amounts of doubling. For example, 9 Adult Actors of whom 8 double As children, or 7 children who play the students Alongside 3-6 Adult Actors. 22 speaking roles in All.

1st Produced:
Blyth Festival     2006

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Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  May include 7 children

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Vic, The

Synopsis:
eight women. Sex. Fate. race. Power. and the nature of cruelty. Multiple stories are united by a search party for a missing woman, as victims and victimisers collide in unexpected ways. Warning: black humour abounds

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Male:  -            Female:  8            Other:  -

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