Cottage Radio & Other Plays
Cottage Radio, White Wedding & Post Alice
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2024
- Category
- Canadian, General, Women Authors, Ontario (ON)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781772016185
- Publish Date
- Jul 2024
- List Price
- $24.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 16 to 18
- Grade: 11 to 12
- Reading age: 14 to 18
Description
Cottage Radio & Other Plays is a collection of three plays by award-winning playwright and director Taylor Marie Graham. While each work is unique, they all feature the strong and hilarious rural women of Southwestern Ontario. The title play, Cottage Radio, is a three-act drama that zeroes in on the often sarcastic and always charismatic Marley clan as they band together in the aftermath of a storm. White Wedding is a large-cast comedy set at an old high school, in a hallway above a wedding reception, where friends and lovers sneak off to reconnect, recalibrate, and swim in the nostalgia of past lives. And in Post Alice, four Huron County women (reminiscent of four of Alice Munro’s protagonists) gather around a fire for an evening of stories, song, laughter, and releasing secrets into the air. A true Huron County mystery weaves its way in as the women wonder what really happened to Mistie Murray, a teenager who disappeared from the region in the mid-nineties.
Altogether, Cottage Radio & Other Plays animates a wild cast of Southwestern Ontario characters with complex histories and relationships to the land they call home.
About the author
Amy Lee Lavoie is an award-winning playwright and a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Playwriting Program. Her first play, Rabbit Rabbit, received its premiere production with Infinitheatre, earning Amy Lee two MECCA’s for Best Text and the Revelation Award. Rabbit Rabbit has since been produced across Canada and in the US. Other plays include Me Happy (Summerworks Festival), Stopheart (Factory Theatre), Genetic Drift (Pi Theatre / Boca del Lupo), My Tom (Railtown Lab Series), Scout’s Honour (Radio Play / Imago Theatre) and C’mon, Angie! (Touchstone Theatre / Leroy Street Theatre) which was hailed as “visceral, important, life-changing theatre.” Amy Lee was also the Head Digital Writer for the CBC drama Strange Empire, which won a Gracie Award (Women’s Alliance Media) for Best Website in recognition of its interactive Storytelling.