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Laurie Fyffe

LAURIE FYFFE

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Festival plays include: When She Was Mad (Buddies, Rhubarb!, 2004), the Serpent of the Nile (SummerWorks, 2003) and the Malaysia Hotel (SummerWorks, 2001), all produced by the Cleopatra Conspiracy. Other productions include: the Passion (Theatre Kingston, 2002), Ballad For a Rumrunner's Daughter (Blyth, 1995), aunt Hannah (Factory Theatre, 1994), Paradise express (Tarragon, 1993) and a Field of Flowers (Blyth, 1991). Other one-act plays have been published in Going It alone, edited by Kit Brennan (the Golden Horn), and escape acts: Seven Canadian One-acts, edited by Colleen Curran (the Sand). Monologues from Laurie's plays can be found in She Speaks, edited by Judith Thompson, and both the Perfect Piece and another Perfect Piece, edited by Tony Hamill. Works in progress include Mirage, three plays exploring Orientalism, and the Triumph of Judith Shakespeare. Laurie has worked as development director for the Tarragon Theatre, a position she held from 2004 to 2007, and as a professional belly dancer in various cities in Canada and Japan. Her work on the Malaysia Hotel was inspired by a trip to Thailand in 1982. In 2000, she revisited both Thailand and CambodiA. Laurie has spent the past ten years living in Toronto and Ottawa pursuing her career as a fundraiser, Arts administrator and freelance writer.

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         Aunt Hannah Meets Joe River         Ballad For A Rumrunner's Daughter         Bush Fire         Field Of Flowers, A         Malaysia Hotel, The         Paradise Express         Passion, The         Sand, The         Serpent Of the Nile, The         When She Was Mad

Aunt Hannah Meets Joe River

Synopsis:
a girl discovers that her aunt's marriage was a mistake

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    978-1551556833

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Ballad For A Rumrunner's Daughter

Synopsis:
Haunted by memories of the past a woman remembers her sister who was consumed by her love of the sea and her Father who smuggled rum

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    978-1551731827

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Bush Fire

Synopsis:
1828 a new settlement Perth, Ontario. the community is shocked by a terrible murder - but did they hang the wrong man?

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    978-1551550800

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Genre:
Historical play

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Field Of Flowers, A

Synopsis:
Discharged from a training school for girls, alice and her friend Gillian set about finding and stealing alice's baby.

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Malaysia Hotel, The

Malaysia Hotel, The
a Cambodian prostitute tries to force a Canadian school teacher to get her out of the country

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Contained in: "Ontario Playwrights: eight Short Plays" published by Playwrights Canada Press, 2009   978-0887548215

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Paradise Express

Synopsis:
a young woman escapes from Canada to the island of Ko Samui, Thailand. She finds life there was not what she had hoped for

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    978-1551556710

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Passion, The

Synopsis:
a medium believes that there are forces out to destroy her spiritualist cause and so has herself committed to an insane asylum to escape

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Drama

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Sand, The

Synopsis:
the joys of belly dancing

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

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Serpent Of the Nile, The

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Summer Works    2003

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When She Was Mad

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Buddies In Bad Times    2004

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