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Sara Graefe

SARA GRAEFE

  (1969 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Lucas Talent Inc  

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

         Dreamspyre         Sadly As I Tie My Shoes         Scribbles         Yellow On Thursdays
Dreamspyre

Synopsis:
a choral, image-based response to the 1989 massacre at l'ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. Mary, a passionate young mathematician, struggles with sexism and hostility in a university engineering department. She is haunted by both events in Montreal and by Hypatia, the female philosopher who in 415 aD was killed by an angry mod in alexandria. a dreamscape of the various realities that inform Mary's decision whether or not to quite school.

Notes:
Honourable Mention, Jane Chambers Playwriting Award for feminist plays And playwrights, 2002

1st Produced:
Kingston, Canada     1990

Organisations:
Queen's University

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada, 1995   

Music:
-

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Genre:
choral/image-based

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  8            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Sadly As I Tie My Shoes

Synopsis:
Two teenage misfits fall in love. Simon, the insecure class clown, develops his first-ever crush. the object of his desire is none other than Jess, the withdrawn new girl who sits in class drawing on her shoes. the two must navigate the uncertainties of a new relationship amdist academic pressure, burgeoning sexuality, and parents who don't always understand.

Notes:
Winner of the 1988 National Arts Centre's Young Playwrights Search

1st Produced:
Ottawa, Canada     1988

Organisations:
National Arts Centre English Theatre

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada, 1995   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Scribbles

Synopsis:
Peggy, a college dropout and social misfit, mourns the loss of her friendship with Marnie, her educated and sophisticated former roomate. as Peggy scribbles impressions on little scraps of paper, present blurs with past and memory blurs with reality, exposing Peggy's longing for Marnie, and her attempt to come to terms with her regret that she was unable to tell Marnie that she loved her.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Ottawa, Canada     1993

Organisations:
National Arts Centre English Theatre

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Yellow On Thursdays

Synopsis:
a play about sex, love and hormones -- and learning to be okay with who you are. Two teenage girls find their best friendship souring after a summer apart. Rebecca returns obsessed with boys and sex, while Katie's discovering she's attracted to girls -- maybe even to Rebecca. Meanwhile, Rebeccs hooks up with Mike, the hot new guy at school who's sectretly afarid she'll find out he's still a virgin.

Notes:
a play for youth And the young At heart.

1st Produced:
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada     2002

Organisations:
Nakai Theatre and Gwaandak Theatre adventures

1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada, 2003   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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