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Keith Roulston

KEITH ROULSTON  

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    Playwrights Guild of Canada  

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

         Another Season's Harvest         Another Season's Promise         His Own Boss         Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!         McGillicuddy         McGillicuddy's Lost Weekend         Powers and Gloria         Shortest Distance Between Two Points, The

Another Season's Harvest

Synopsis:
A divided farm family must comes together to battle the most recent farm crisis.

Notes:
written by Anne Chislett And Keith Roulston

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Another Season's Promise

Synopsis:
After a lifetime of working the rich Canadian farmland which he inherited from his father, Ken Purves, who expanded too quickly in the good years, now finds himself caught in a web of mounting debts and shrinking income. Several other local farmers have already gone bankrupt, or have sold out to an eastern land syndicate, but Ken is determined to survive, even if it means civil disobedience and "robbing Peter to pay Paul." He is also reluctant to reveal the depth of his plight to the others in the family - his aged mother, who first came to the farm as a young bride; his wife, Helen, who is prepared to go back to nursing to help the family finances; and his son, Robert, who left home to pursue a business career in Vancouver, but who now wants to return to his roots. Robert, who is undergoing a divorce, also wants to train his son, Sandy, to take over the farm in time - the fifth generation of the Purves family to do so. In a final effort to hold onto his way of life, Ken secretly sells the farm to a land comp

Notes:
written with Anne Chislett

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1988   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  4            Other:  1c

Further Reference:
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His Own Boss

Synopsis:
The Hopewell family by a cheese factory in a small town.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    978-1551557595

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

Synopsis:
A small town facing bankruptcy wine and dine two mysterious Texas millionaires in the hope of getting help

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Blyth Festival Ontario    1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    978-155290727

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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McGillicuddy

Synopsis:
A city policeman gets the job as chief of police in a small town. He is soon embroiled in town politics, a juvenile delinquent and an amorous neighbour

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Blyth Festival Ontario    2001

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwrights Guild of Canada   978-1552901472

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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McGillicuddy's Lost Weekend

Synopsis:
McGillicuddy has to cancel his weekend of fishing when one of the townsfolk is kidnapped

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Blyth Festival Ontario    1979

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

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Powers and Gloria

Powers and Gloria
James Powers takes over the running of the family furniture factory when his father Edward has a stroke. He hires Gloria to nurse him. Edward and Gloria slowly become friends

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Blyth Memorial Community Hall, Blyth, Ontario    2005

Organisations:
Blyth Theatre Festival

1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press 2010   978-0887547214

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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Shortest Distance Between Two Points, The

Synopsis:
A small community is threatened by a proposed new super highway

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Blyth Festival Ontario    1977

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

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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