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Carol Sinclair

CAROL SINCLAIR  

 Nationality:    Canadian
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Carol Sinclair lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and has been a professionally produced playwright since 1980. She began writing on her feet with Second City Revue, and graduated to writing solo for theatres that produce new Canadian work, such as Mulgrave Road and Ship's Company Theatres in N.S., and Blyth Festival, ON. Long time member of the Playwright's Guild of Canada, (formerly Playwright's Union), she's been a member of the Banff Playwright's Colony, and Tarragon Playwright's Unit, Toronto. For many years she's been a member of A.C.T.R.A, C.A.E.A., Theatre N.S., Writer's Federation of N.S., and the Playwright's Atlantic Resource Centre. She was a founding and five year member of the long awaited Nova Scotia Arts Council. Her play, "Sabina's Splendid Brain" is taught at the Universities of Toronto and Guelph. She's been Writer in Residence at St. F.X. University and, with Dalhousie U's Medical Humanities Program, she wrote "Defense de Fumer", which toured Ottawa, Vancouver, Charlottetown, St. John, and Nunavut. Carol has had productions in Toscana, Italy, Galway, Ireland, Perth, Australia, Cape Town, South Africa, London, England, Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, in Cincinnati, U.S.A, as well as in every province in Canada.

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 Brownie From Hell         Defense de Fumer         Doze Ease         Egats Rood         Ferry Tales         Firefly         Hansel & Gretel and Handsome & Grateful         Idyll Gossip         Old Boots         Presents         Put Witch in Bottle         Riverine         Ruby         Sabina's Splendid Brain         Share         Square Omelette         Summer of the Handley-Page , The         Young Hate

Brownie From Hell

Synopsis:
Gretchen is a Brownie. She is nine, bad, and dead. She machetes her way through the pop icons and story book characters of the 60's, 70's and 80's that gave her her screwy ideas about what it meant to grow up female. She pleads her case to the Devil, in her eternal attempts to escape Hell. She is finally redeemed by a stairway of feminist tomes that lead her to come back up to Earth. CBC Radio also produced this piece for national airing.

Notes:
Voice of the Devil, composition, Arrangement And Accompaniment on piano by Marsha Coffey with lyrics by C. Sinclair

1st Produced:
Crow's Theatre at Bathurst Street Theatre    1993

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy with music, one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Defense de Fumer

Synopsis:
One actor portrays all the characters - twenty-eight smokers, male and female, in turn try to justify their smoking habits in defense of the most insidious addiction of our time. Darkly funny and poignant, this play was a commission by Dr. Murray Scott in a medical studies department that believes art and laughter to be essential elements of healing. This stage play was also recorded in part for CBC Radio.

Notes:
1920's-50's smoking songs found And played by Aaron Padolsky on piano And CD's

1st Produced:
Theatre A, Medical Humanities Building, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia    2002

Organisations:
Sinc Ink with Dalhousie Med

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Solo comedy, one act, with music

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  Musician

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Doze Ease

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Instant Applause Volume Two" published by Blizzard Publications 1996   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Egats Rood

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1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Ferry Tales

Synopsis:
Compilation of facts, songs, lore and legends around the M.V. Kipawo ferry, on which Ship's Company Theatre's plays are staged. The longest running ferry on the unique Bay of Fundy, the "Kip" represents an era between the Ages of Sail and Steam, when a coal-burning steel-hulled ferry was the key link between the towns and train stations around the bay. Written to celebrate 25 years as a professional theatre and 50 years in the life of a captain and his craft.

Notes:
1940's And traditional music found And / or composed by Greg Simm with lyrics by C. Sinclair

1st Produced:
Ship's, Nova Scotia    2008

Organisations:
Ship's Company Theatre

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy with music, full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  1m

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Firefly

Synopsis:
A young woman and her town weather the terrific changes wrought by the advent of technology, the emergence of the New Woman, and the devastation of the Great War. This is a love story between woman and man, but also between woman and mother, as they struggle to find room for growth of their gender, room enough for marriage and vocation.

Notes:
1910's style music composed And Arranged by John Alcorn with lyrics by Carol Sinclair

1st Produced:
Blyth, Ontario    1990

Organisations:
Blyth Festival

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Large cast period musical, full length

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  10            Other:  2 musicians

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Hansel & Gretel and Handsome & Grateful

Synopsis:
Two modern adaptations of the Grimms fairy tale, one for children and a parallel satire for adults are played by the same cast. Set in the poverty of rural Nova Scotia, two adolescents battling low self-esteem leave their home, where alcohol cripples their step-mother and dope distances their father, only to find a burned-out rock star named Belladonna with a house of 'candy' she hopes will addict.

Notes:
Music composed, Arranged And played by Adam Theriault with lyrics by C. Sinclair

1st Produced:
Bauer Theatre, Nova Scotia    2002

Organisations:
Festival Antigonish

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Two comedies with music, one acts

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  1 musician

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Idyll Gossip

Synopsis:
Mad dash comedy about five rural poor women of all ages with nothing in common except nothing left to lose, who form a band and hit the road. Husbands, children, egos and occupations are tossed into chaos as they discover what 'fun' is. Not able to garner any money for their efforts as merely a 'local' act, they pull off a fraud as Torontonian imports by a change of instrumentation from acoustic to electric, in dress, from frump to tramp, and a major change in image of self-worth.

Notes:
Original score composed, Arranged And played by Emmy Alcorn And Beth McCormick with lyrics by C. Sinclair, J. Sinclair, And B. McCormick

1st Produced:
Mulgrave Tour, Nova Scotia    1985

Organisations:
Mulgrave Road Theatre

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy with music, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Old Boots

Synopsis:
A meticulous census-taker tears her stockings and breaks her heel finding an elderly man living in a tree house four miles from the nearest human. His life style fits none of the neat categories on her form. She can find little common ground with him until she realizes that she is also living alone, surrounded in animals, in her case, cats, in a forest of strangers. This set is lively.

Notes:
Male plays some fiddle

1st Produced:
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia    1984

Organisations:
King's Theatre

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Two hander, comedy, one act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Presents

Synopsis:
A Christmas play for family audiences about brat and her unemployed father, both of whom discover the importance of love over loot when they spend Christmas without Mum, while she gives birth to a baby brother. Elves visit, and wise guys, too.

Notes:
Original score composed, Arranged And played by Lucky Campbell with lyrics based on found poetry And original lyrics by C. Sinclair

1st Produced:
Mulgrave Tour, Nova Scotia    1983

Organisations:
Mulgrave Road Theatre

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy for kids with music, full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  males should be musically inclined

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Put Witch in Bottle

Synopsis:
Tribute to Nova Scotian folklorist, Helen Creighton, focusing on the spells, cures, songs and divinations she discovered and meticulously recorded on her giant reel-to-reel, as she tirelessly roamed the back woods of Nova Scotia for decades. Simplest cure: "Put witch in bottle." If not for Dr. Creighton, a culture lost. This stage play was also adapted for and aired by CBC Radio.

Notes:
Traditional And composed music by Clary Croft on guitar

1st Produced:
Alderney Landing, Halifax, NS    1996

Organisations:
Sinc Ink with Eastern Front

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy with music, one act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  male part must be musician

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Riverine

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
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Ruby

Synopsis:
Halifax-born dancer Ruby Keeler is honoured as she braves the 'speaks' of New York in the Depression, an abusive 11 yr marriage to Al Jolson, and the vacuousness of Busby Berkeley's Hollywood, before meeting second husband John Lowe and retiring to a peaceful private life raising her children, only to make a Broadway comeback after a stroke, at age 66. Narrated by mentor, Texas Guinan.

Notes:
1930's style original score composed And Arranged by Paul Simons, played by John Boudreau on piano with lyrics by C. Sinclair

1st Produced:
Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax, NS    2007

Organisations:
Sink Ink

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama with music, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  musician

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Sabina's Splendid Brain

Synopsis:
Hilarious one woman portrayal of analysts Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein in Vienna in the glory days of psychiatric study, where the bywords were, "Publish or perish." The outrageous plagiarisms by both men of this brilliant woman's theories are revealed, based on diaries and love letters between the three now in the public domain.

Notes:
Classic And composed cues by Hilary Brown on cello

1st Produced:
Alderney Landing, Halifax, NS    1997

Organisations:
Sinc Ink with Eastern Front

1st Published:
Signature Press, Winnipeg, MA, Canada.,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Solo comedy, one act, with music

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  Musician, must be female

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Share

Synopsis:
Two couples, unbeknownst to each other, arrive at the same coastal cabin at the same time and weather a weekend hurricane together. Ostensibly very polarized, they all agree that survival is key, and discover that, as humans, we are more closely related than we think. One very lively set. This stage play has also been adapted as a screen play.

Notes:
Sound & music cues by Krista Wells And Greg Simm

1st Produced:
Ship's, Nova Scotia    2007

Organisations:
Ship's Company Theatre

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Contemporary comedy, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Square Omelette

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Summer of the Handley-Page , The

Synopsis:
This charming and funny romance is based on the true story of the world's largest bomber crashing down in one of the world's smallest towns. Dejected Brit war heroes suffering no serious injury except to pride spend the summer of 1919 in Parrsboro, home of Ship's Company Theatre, making repairs and romance, and setting several world records when they leave. This stage play was also adapted and recorded for CBC Radio and adapted as a screenplay.

Notes:
Live choral theme And recorded music cues composed And orchestrated by Marsha Coffey, with lyrics by C. Sinclair

1st Produced:
Ship's, Nova Scotia    1987

Organisations:
Ship's Company Theatre

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Large cast period comedy, full length, some singing

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  musician

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Young Hate

Synopsis:
Based on true events, a fourteen year old recent Rumanian immigrant to Canada runs away from her adoptive activist mother, and on the street is approached, and raped in a hostel by a Black man. This propels her to seek the solace and protection of a White Supremacist group with branches in 45 countries. For four years she sings at neo-Nazi concerts and does online recruiting for The Front, falling in love by net and phone with a young man she never meets. When she tries to break free of the organization with the help of her mother and the young man, she realizes that the boy she has come to love is Black. This stage play is also a screen play.

Notes:
Music is played by the cast on found street junk, composition And lyrics by C. Sinclair

1st Produced:
Noise House, London, UK    1995

Organisations:
Sinc Ink and Noise House

1st Published:
Playwright's Guild of Canada,    -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama with humour and music, full length, some language

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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