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PlayME NOW – Vitals
PlayME NOW – Vitals
On the heels of the recent California fires, PlayME revisits a clip from past show, Vitals by Rosamund Small. Listen to get inside the mind of a paramedic in the heat of the action. PlayME NOW is a series of bonus episodes that explore the relevance of previous shows to today’s headline events.
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Prairie Nurse
By Marie Beath Badian
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Bonus Episode – Interview with Marie Beath Badian
A comedy about two Filipino nurses who come to work at a small-town Saskatchewan hospital in the late 1960s. Cultural clashes, personality differences, homesickness, and the amorous but dim-witted goalie from the local hockey team complicate the women’s lives.
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PlayME Season 2 Trailer
Coming soon….
PlayME has joined CBC Podcasts. Coming soon: Prairie Nurse, What a young wife ought to know, Huff, Between Breaths, and The Fish Eyes Trilogy. Welcome to your Digital Theatre.
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Bang Bang
By Kat Sandler
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Bang Bang – Bonus Episode – Interview with Kat Sandler
A Factory commissioned world premiere.
Featuring: Sébastien Heins, Jeff Lillico, Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah, Karen Robinson and Richard Zeppieri.
A white playwright uses the shooting of an unarmed young black man by a police officer as a “jumping-off point” for his hit play, soon to be adapted into a major movie. As Hollywood comes knocking, the writer visits the officer involved.
Buy tickets: https://www.factorytheatre.ca/
Plays at the Factory Theatre, Toronto, Canada
February 1-24, 2018
Use the discount code, “playmepod” for a 10% for PlayME listeners.
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Iceland
By Nicolas Billon
Set against the backdrop of the banking crisis, a confrontation between a real estate agent and a tenant takes an unexpected turn.
Featuring the original cast of Kawa Ada, Claire Calnan and Christine Horne.
PlayME – Iceland – Episode 1
PlayME – Iceland Episode 2
PlayME – Iceland Episode #3
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Bunny
By Hannah Moscovitch
Bunny Episode 1
Bunny Episode 2
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Aroused by inappropriate love, a young woman discovers the power of her own allure. Ever the outsider, she struggles with what’s social acceptable only to find herself increasingly alone in her desires.
A Tarragon Theatre production.
BUNNY was commissioned and received its world premiere in August 2016 at the Stratford Festival – Antoni Cimolino, Artistic Director.
Featuring: Gabriella Albino, Maev Beaty, Rachel Cairns, Matthew Edison, Cyrus Lane, Jesse LaVercombe & Tony Ofori. Directed by Sarah Garton Stanley.
Buy tickets: http://www.tarragontheatre.com/show/bunny/
Plays at the Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, Canada
Feb 21 – Apr 1, 2018
Use the discount code, “bunny20” for a 20% discount.
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Vitals
By Rosamund Small
PlayME – Vitals Episode 1
Vitals Episode 2
PlayME – Vitals Episode 3
PlayME – Vitals Episode 4
PlayME – Interview with Rosamund Small
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Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells)
By Rose Napoli
#12 Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) – Episode 1
PlayME – Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) – Episode 2
Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) – Eps. #3
Dear Mr. Wells – Bonus Interview with Rose Napoli
Laura, a 15-year-old school girl, is in an inappropriate relationship with her English teacher. She is in love, but he’s in a complicated marriage he can’t leave. Things ignite when his wife calls during the couple’s secret night of passion.
Featuring Vivien Endicott-Douglas and David Jansen. The original workshop production was directed by Andrea Donaldson.
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Quiver
By Anna Chatterton
#8 – Quiver – Episode 1
Quiver – Episode 2
Quiver – Episode 3
Quiver Bonus Interview with Anna Chatterton
Maddie’s sweet sixteen sister, Beatrice, is dating someone she shouldn’t. Their brassy single mom, Sheila, makes up with her ex-boyfriend again. So fourteen-year-old Maddie is left to fend for herself with nothing but her bow and arrow.
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Theory
By Norman Yeung
#19 – PlayME – Theory – Episode 1
PlayME – Theory – Episode 2
PlayME – Theory – Episode 3
PlayME – Bonus Interview with Norman Yeung
Isabelle, a young liberal professor of film theory, creates an Internet discussion board for her class. A mysterious student posts offensive comments and videos, testing Isabelle’s open-mindedness.
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Better Angels
By Andrea Scott
Better Angels – Episode 1
Better Angels – Episode 2
Better Angels – Bonus Interview with Andrea Scott
Akosua is a young woman from Ghana who has come to Canada to work as a nanny for a couple in Toronto. They insist she is a member of their family, but when they increasingly deny her pay she comes to a chilling realization: she has become their prisoner.
Written by Andrea Scott and featuring Akosua Amo-Adem, Sascha Cole, Peyson Rock and David Christo, the play premiered at Summerworks in 2015 and was originally directed by Nigel Shawn Williams.
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Grade 8
By Dwayne Morgan
#16 – PlayME – Grade 8 – Episode 1
PlayME – Grade 8 – Episode 2
PlayME – Bonus Episode – Interview with Dwayne Morgan
Grade 8 looks at what it means to be a black father today, and the role men play in young girls’ lives as they grow up and become women. Told through spoken word, this one-man show is part beat poetry and part urban lyricism.
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The Philosopher’s Wife
By Susanna Fournier
Featuring: Keith Barker, Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Chala Hunter, and Ishan Davé.
Directed by Leora Morris.
The Philosopher’s Wife, is a modern Gothic subverting notions of education, sex, power, and submission.
The Philosopher’s Wife – Episode 1
The Philosopher’s Wife – Episode 2
The Philosopher’s Wife – Episode 3
New Episode!
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PlayME Mono
Laura and Chris host conversations with some of Canada’s most celebrated playwrights in front of a live audience. Together, they dive deep into their favourite monologues. d’bi young anitafrika talks about her monologue Mami Wata.
Episode 1 – d’bi young anitafrika
Episode 2 – Judith Thompson
Laura and Chris host conversations with some of Canada’s most celebrated playwrights in front of a live audience. Together, they dive deep into their favourite monologues.Judith Thompson talks about her monologue from Palace of the End.
Episode 3 – Keith Barker
Laura and Chris host conversations with some of Canada’s most celebrated playwrights in front of a live audience. Together, they explore their favourite monologues. Keith Barker talks about his monologue from This is How We Got Here
Episode 4 – Daniel MacIvor
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Interview with Erica Kopyto
Thoughts on improving writing.
Chris talks with Erica about the role of dramaturgy in playwriting. Erica walks us through what makes for a great play.
PlayME – Interview with Dramaturg, Erica Kopyto