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Cat Delaney

CAT DELANEY

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Catalyst TCM Inc  

Pamela Cat Delaney was born and raised in northern england. She was educated at the University of Toronto and Ryerson, and continues her studies on an on-going basis. Published widely in periodicals, her work has appeared in Where Toronto Magazine, the Globe and Mail

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         Man Of Letters, A         Welfarewell

Man Of Letters, A

Synopsis:
This story is about Samuel Johnson's involvement with Reverend William Dodd, sentenced to hang for forging a banknote, and forgiven by the victim. Johnson is enlisted by Dodd's supporters to use his gift with the written word to save Dodd's skin, an odd request given that Johnson was known to have said the gallows was a necessary thing. In his own final hours in 1784, Johnson relives his greatest failure, his inability to save Dodd's life. Johnson's wise old ghost is our host.

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1st Published:
the Playwrights Guild of Canada,    -

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Genre:
2 acts Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Welfarewell

Welfarewell
esmerelda Quipp is 80, still of sound mind, but her body is beginning to 'come unglued', as she puts it. Having spent her working life as an actress, age pushing her gradually out of the business, she now faces the fact that her meagre government pension is insufficient to support her, even with her minimal needs. When she is arrested for attempting to bury her dead cat in her landlord's yard, she finds that there is some sense of community, not to mention free room and board, within the prison system. She devises a plan to get herself sent back to jail; she robs a bank. But a well-meaning public defender gets the charges against her dropped. esmerelda Quipp is undeterred! Using money she gets from returning stolen wine bottles to a recycling depot, she buys a toy gun at the local dollar store, and commits armed robbery. Knowing that she will be convicted because she will plead guilty, she assumes that she can spend the rest of her days living free, hanging out with other women, and being fed decently in a women's prison. But the system that has failed her also wants to forgive her because of her age and general health, and the public defender wants to use an insanity plea to get her off. How will esmerelda convince the legal system she should be incarcerated, literally, for life?

Notes:
Winner of the 2009 Samuel French Canadian Playwriting Competition

1st Produced:
staged reading at Women Playwrights Int Conference, Mumbai, India    01 Nov 2009

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Genre:
Dramatic comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  7            Other:  Larger Cast Possibilities

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