doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Sandra Dempsey

SANDRA DEMPSEY  

 Nationality:    Canadian
email:    Click here to contact     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    n/a


With a keen sense of Drama and a formidable wit, Sandra Dempsey writes complex plays inhabited by articulate, richly drawn and emotional characters. Her work is as poignant and instictive as it is wide-ranging and authoratative in subject: FLYING TO GLORY, a moving, life-affirming, all in the moment action Drama about those who flew in WWII; ENIGMa with its four women entangled by assisted suicide; BaRBIE & KEN, an acerbic satire; aRMaGIDEON's septuagenarian women navigating a disturbing future; and her latest, WINGS TO VICTORY, a Drama following the exploits of allied women flyers in the air Transport auxiliary in WWII - these and many more award-winning pieces comprise her theatrical legacy. Uncompromising and vital; powerful, compassionate and impassion.

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

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

 Armagideon         Barbie And Ken         Blue Collar Blues         Casualties         Clap-Trap         Cuff 'N' Billy Show         D'Arcy         Eight To Four         Enigma         Fat Cans         Flying To Glory         Legacy         Officer Drag         Orders         Pee-Pipe         Pierre La         Rosa's Lament         That's No Lady, That's My Immigrant         Wing And A Prayer, A         Wings Of The Albatross

Armagideon

Synopsis:
Two spinster aunts try to look after their nine year old nephew who has radiation sickness in a post nuclear world.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1996

Organisations:
-

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

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Black comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Barbie And Ken

Synopsis:
Barbie is pregnant - but is that possible with two anatomically incorrect plastic people?

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Brooklyn Publishers   193-0961057

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
play Ten min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Blue Collar Blues

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1983

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
full length comedy with music

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Casualties

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Brooklyn Publishers   193-0961839

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
play Ten min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Clap-Trap

Synopsis:
a young man is visited by his mother at his training base during World War Two

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    2004

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Brooklyn Publishers   160003117X

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
play Ten min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Cuff 'N' Billy Show

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Formerly entitled "Police Release Me"

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

D'Arcy

Synopsis:
The story of Thomas D'arcy McGee, the Irish patriot and Canadian Statesman, assassinated by Fenians

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1980

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Simon and Pierre, Toronto, 1981   088-9241147

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
full length Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Eight To Four

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
Formerly entitled "Nine to Five"

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
comedy One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Enigma

Synopsis:
a hospital patient orchestrates her own suicide

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Touchwood Press, 2003   096-8786146

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Fat Cans

Synopsis:
an Australian learning to fly in World War Two Canada has trouble explaining himself.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
play Ten min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Flying To Glory

Synopsis:
a group of young friends emlist in the Royal Canadian air Force in 1942

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Touchwood Press, 2006   096-8786162

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Legacy

Synopsis:
a young woman's life is altered by her alcoholic father

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Brooklyn Publishers   193-1805504

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Officer Drag

Synopsis:
as muggings increase a police officer is sent undercover dressed as a lady.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   193-0961405

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
play Ten min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Orders

Synopsis:
a soldier is sent on an impossible peace keeping mission

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Brooklyn Publishers   160-0030513

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
play Ten min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Pee-Pipe

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    1998

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Brooklyn Publishers   193-0961812

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Pierre La

Synopsis:
The one thing guaranteed to drive women wild a sexy French accent

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   193-0961820

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
play Ten min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Rosa's Lament

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   193-0961790

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
play Ten min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

That's No Lady, That's My Immigrant

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Wing And A Prayer, A

Synopsis:
a young pilot is badly disfigured when his plane catches fire. When he is well enough to resume duties his superiors think the way he looks will be bad for morale

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    2004

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Brooklyn Publishers   160-0030521

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
play Ten min

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Wings Of The Albatross

Synopsis:
after years of legal wrangling to claim what is rightfully hers, in despair, Rosa commits suicide only to face a similar situation on the other side as they try to determine where she should go.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page