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Margaret Hollingsworth

MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH  

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Playwrights Guild of Canada  


don't forget to buy her first novel - it's called "Be Quiet". 

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

 Alli Alli Oh         Alma Victoria         Apple In The Eye         Blowing Up Toads         Bushed         Commonwealth Games         Dance For My Father         Diving         Ever Loving         Green Line, The         House That Jack Built, The         In Confidence         Islands         It's Only Hot For Two Months In Kapuskasing         Making Greenpeace         Mother Country         Numbrains         Operators         Poppycock         Prim And Duck, Mama And Frank         There's A Few Things I Want To Tell You         War Babies         Willful Acts         Writers Show, The

Alli Alli Oh

Synopsis:
Set in a West Coast island farmhouse, this psychological drama offers a deep, disturbing look at the relationship between two women

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver.    1975

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1979   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act. - - Lesbian, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Alma Victoria

Synopsis:
Set in the 1920's and 30's, the play revolves around alma Victoria and her 18-year-old lover, who are accused of murdering alma's husband, the architect Francis Rattenbury.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Nanaimo Festival Theatre, Nanaimo, BC.    1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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Apple In The Eye

Synopsis:
Gemma's attempts to communicate with her husband are repeatedly rebuffed and she survives her unbearable reality by withdrawing into her own fantasy world.

Notes:
broadcast 1977

1st Produced:
Women and Word conference, Vancouver, BC.    1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Wilful acts, Coach House Press, Toronto. (Talon Books 1998), 1985   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Blowing Up Toads

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Calgary    1996

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Bushed

Synopsis:
Two elderly loggers, one Finnish and the other Ukrainian, seek shelter in a laundromat. They reminisce about their past exploits and make futile plans for sexual conquest.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Vancouver    1974

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1981   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Commonwealth Games

Synopsis:
a realistic fast-paced examination of the role of the Commonwealth and the patriarchy at the end of the 20th Century. Three people vie for control over the life of a brilliant 16 year-old girl who is being educated at an Ivy League college in the US. (Formerly Blowing up Toads)

Notes:
under the title Blowing up Toads

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1998   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dance For My Father

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver.    1976

Organisations:
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1st Published:
New Play Centre, Vancouver, 1976   -

Music:
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Diving

Synopsis:
In her imaginative inner world, Viveca can safely impose her male/female and mother/daughter relationships surrealistically on her external life.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver.    1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Wilful acts, Coach House Press, Toronto. (Talon Books 1998), 1985   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ever Loving

Synopsis:
Three war brides from England, Scotland and Italy travel to Canada in 1945. The lives of the three women and their relationships with their husbands weave together the hopes, fantasies, disappointments and the grim reality of starting a new life in a new land.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Belfry Theatre, Victoria    1980

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1981   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Green Line, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stratford, Ontario    1986

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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House That Jack Built, The

Synopsis:
Jack builds a house on the outskirts of Toronto for Jenny, who is reluctant to leave the city. as she adjusts to their new home, their marriage undergoes a frightening change

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1988   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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In Confidence

Synopsis:
In Confidence features two monologues by two women in two different kitchens in two different cities three thousand miles apart - this simple conceit is all Hollingsworth needs to create a complex portrait of a friendship hampered by dark secrets in each woman's marriage

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Firehall Theatre, Vancouver    1994

Organisations:
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1st Published:
G. Gordon Shillingford Publishing (Scirocco Drama), 1995   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Islands

Synopsis:
Six months after "alli alli Oh!" Now living alone, Muriel receives a visit from her widowed mother and her new fiance. alli also arrives unexpectedly, and events climax when each woman discovers ways to relate to past events

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver.    1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1983   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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It's Only Hot For Two Months In Kapuskasing

Synopsis:
a woman goes to help a friend who she thinks is being abused by her lover.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Toronto    1985

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Making Greenpeace

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Vancouver    1992

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Mother Country

Synopsis:
Three Canadian women visit their British mother at her West Coast island home. The reunion crackles with tension as the deceit on which the women were raised is slowly exposed.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, ON    1980

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1980   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Numbrains

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Vancouver    1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Reference West, Victoria, 1995   -

Music:
-

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Operators

Synopsis:
Three women are working a northern nightshift. The probing of the youngest leads to disturbing revelations about the fears and dependencies of the older two.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver.    1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwrights, Toronto, 1981   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Poppycock

Synopsis:
Three of the most powerful men of the century, Pablo Picasso, adolf Hitler and Ezra Pound, are examined in relationships with one woman who is featured in each of their lives.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre Resource Centre, Toronto, ON.    1987

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Prim And Duck, Mama And Frank

Synopsis:
a mother, her two adult children and a mysterious uncle struggle with questions of self-identity, social acceptance and perceptions of reality

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Toronto    1989

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1988   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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There's A Few Things I Want To Tell You

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Vancouver    1992

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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War Babies

Synopsis:
after twenty years of marriage, Esme, a playwright, and Colin, a war correspondent, are expecting a baby. Fears of middle-aged childbirth as well as the latent male-female antagonism of two decades of living together intensify as the date of the birth draws near.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Play Centre, Vancouver, and the Belfry Theatre, Victoria.    1984

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Wilful acts, Coach House Press, Toronto. (Talon Books 1998), 1985   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Willful Acts

Margaret Hollingsworth
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Talon Books, Vancouver, BC,    978-0889223851

Music:
-

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Writers Show, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written with others

1st Produced:
Vancouver    1978

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Revue Show

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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