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Christine Foster

CHRISTINE FOSTER  

 Nationality:    Canadian/UK
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Literary Agent:    Core Literary Inc  


Christine Foster is the author of three plays commissioned for Solar Stage Theatre, Toronto, one for The Lighthouse Festival, Port Dover, Ontario, and six for Cliffhanger Productions, one of which won Toronto's Dora Mavor Moore award for Best Production in 2004. She also won Best New Play at Storybook Theatre, Calgary for The Boy Who Wanted to Learn Fear. Other stage work includes book and lyrics for five original musicals, of which Everything But anchovies was translated into Danish and produced in Copenhagen. Extensive radio and television credits both as script editor and writer range from CTV's The Littlest Hobo to CBS' "Friday the 13th" and "Top Cops," to the History Channel's "TimeChase" and Family Channel's "Mentors."

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

 Bluffer's Moon         Companion, The         Death Of Me, The         Elfin Knight , The         Everything But Anchovies         Firebird, The         Fool's Whistle , The         Odyssey , The         Pax         Raptures         Sheherazade And The 1001 Nights

Bluffer's Moon

Synopsis:
an energetic romp based on a French Canadian folk tale - full of mistaken identity, Mardi Gras madness, and romance.

Notes:
Requires A bear suit.

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada press, Toronto,    1-55173-824-4

Music:
-

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Genre:
Theatre for Young audience

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Companion, The

Synopsis:
The spirit of a passionate young woman clings desperately to the physical world by seeking a living lover. Unfortunately the man she chooses is using her as much as she is using him, propelling them both from momentary passion into the chill of the unknown.

Notes:
Finalist 2007

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Short and Sweet Festival, Sydney, Australia

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
play Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Death Of Me, The

Synopsis:
a thirty-something couple find themselves unexpectedly dead, then work out a way to go back and relive the night they died in an effort to find out who done it, and how.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
The Lighthouse Festival, Port Dover, Ontario

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada press, Toronto,    1-55173-313-7

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comic Murder Mystery

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Elfin Knight , The

Synopsis:
Based on the Ballad of Tam Lyn, this Scottish folktale abounds with magic, swordfights, and high adventure. Katherine must save not only a changeling child, but her own true love, captured by the Fairy Queen and doomed to remain a prisoner for seven long years.

Notes:
also published in "Prepare to Embark" Playwrights Canada Press 2002

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada press, Toronto,    1-555173-822-8

Music:
-

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Genre:
Theatre for Young audience

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  Extras as sprites

Further Reference:
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Everything But Anchovies

Synopsis:
Four grade-twelve students are driving home after a disastrous appearance on a high school quiz show. Eric, the most popular kid in school, blames the others and tries to put off going home to face humiliation by pretending his car has broken down. The four - who have nothing in common except their mutual hostility - are forced to spend an evening together in the middle of nowhere.

Notes:
Original Music by Phyllis Cohen

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Fata Morgana Inc., Toronto

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada press, Toronto,    0-88754-394-4

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Firebird, The

Synopsis:
a clever girl dresses as a man to free her love, retrieve a feather from the legendary Firebird, and defeat a powerful Sorcerer. Thus heroic action adventure is set against the colourful backdrop of Medieval Russia.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada press, Toronto,    1-55173-828-7

Music:
-

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Genre:
Theatre for Young audience

Parts:
Male:  4 with doubling            Female:  3 with doubling            Other:  5 men, 4 women without doubling

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Fool's Whistle , The

Synopsis:
Based on Romany (Gypsy) folklore. a young man is divided into two - his wise and foolish selves, and under this clumsy enchantment cannot woo the girl he loves. The resulting mayhem is full of misunderstandings. chases, fights, charms and foolery.

Notes:
Violinist may Also be recorded.

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada press, Toronto,    1-55173-826-0

Music:
-

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Genre:
Theatre for Young audience

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  Violinist in costume as The Spirit

Further Reference:
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Odyssey , The

Synopsis:
This adaptation streamlines the complicated adventure tale into compelling and accessible language and action. Perfect for high schools or community groups.

Notes:
a stage Adaptation of Homer's classic poem

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada press, Toronto,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Theatre for Young audience

Parts:
Male:  6 with doubling            Female:  3 with doubling            Other:  2 Sirens/Nymphs. May be performed by as many as 20, without doubling

Further Reference:
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Pax

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Raptures

Synopsis:
Two sisters vie for the love of the same man in 1890's Toronto in this rollicking, scandalous comic melodrama.

Notes:
Six 40 minute installments of A comic-historical romance, originally produced As lunchtime theatre.

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Solar Stage Toronto

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada press, Toronto,    1-55155-431-3

Music:
-

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Genre:
a play in six parts

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Sheherazade And The 1001 Nights

Synopsis:
a new stage adaptation of The arabian Nights, using little known tales to highlight the central story of Sheherazade and her desperate bid to save her life by weaving magnificent nightly entertainments for her cruel husband.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Cliffhanger Productions, Toronto, Canada

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada press, Toronto,    978-1-55435-146-6

Music:
-

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Genre:
Theatre for Young audience

Parts:
Male:  3 with doubling            Female:  3 with doubling            Other:  May use 12 or more actors without doubling.

Further Reference:
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