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CATHERINE SCOTT
Nationality: USA
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Catherine Scott has been best known for her work as a counselor for assault survivors, and as a writer and lecturer on issues of domestic abuse and rape. She served as Executive Director of a social services agency for more than ten years, and trained advocates and police officers working with rape victims and battered women. She is the author of LOVESTRUCK: REALISTIC HELP FOR BATTERED WIVES AND BRUISED homes, published by Accent in 1988. Her play TOYS IN BABELAND was presented in a staged reading in 2002 by the Actors' Guild at the Garden City Playhouse. FINDING FOREVER enjoyed audience and critical approval in production at a community Theatre in Boise. Agent: Edward Britt
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Finding Forever Toys in BabelandFinding Forever
Synopsis:
Emma and Jansen Foyle, are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary. Emma is a professor of English Literature, and Jansen a retired engineer. Flashbacks to their youth pull audiences along through moments in time as they play their ingenious word games, build their family and tease the neighbors. they write FIMMAH to one another as a secret code - leaving it on cookies, writing it on notes and in chalk throughout the yard - a private acronym that captures their devotion to one another, a declaration of love known only to the two of them. their granddaughter, theresa, has watched them grow old together. She and her suitor, Stephen, wonder if they will every have such an intensely focused relationship. they learn about true commitment and love as Jansen toasts his life with Emma "the woman who sustained me in sickness and health, in lean times and in plenty. . .from Niagara to Viagra."
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the Garden City Playhouse 2003
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the Actors' Guild
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Romantic Comedy Comedy
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Synopsis:
Amanda has a secret. She sees and speaks to toys. She lives with two roommates and is trying to find her way in the world. She is trying to keep her secret from her roommates but the toys always try to help her. She meets Chad and discovers his niece also speaks to toys. Amanda help Chad's niece discover that it is OK to be a little different.
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Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 6 Other: 1g
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