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Roger Benezoscee is the worst boss you've ever had. What could possibly force this obnoxious, egotistical old megalomaniac to change his ways? Nothing short of a Damascene conversion. Angels in the Dark--a radio play set in total darkness--was inspired by "Dialogue in the Dark," the exhibition in which people are escorted around a series of darkened rooms by a blind guide.

Biddlecombe is an ordinary English seaside town--except everyone there has been turned to stone. Two police officers uncover the strange truth of what happened when hairdresser Marjorie Briggs finds an object on the beach with the power to muck up the lives of everyone she knows.

Mack Brown remembers all those old Tumbleweed Roundup movies he saw as a kid and wonders what happened to them; they don't show up on late-night television or in video stores anymore. Driven by nostalgia, he begins to search for the missing films.

Dans son quotidien régulé par les sonneries des radios-réveils et les bulletins météo animés par son ex, le gars tente tant bien que mal de ne pas s’affaisser. Seul, sans le sou, happé par un tourbillon dont il ne parvient pas à s’extirper, ce héros malgré lui se retrouve dans la boue jusqu’au cou. Mais avec le soutien de Super-Poulet BBQ, véritable ange gardien déplumé qui se métamorphose au gré des situations, il réapprendra peu à peu à vivre.

Sans se déculotter complètement, l'auteur se dévoile dans Mes shorts. Ce recueil de textes brefs pour enfants, pour jeunes et moins jeunes est un heureux mélange de styles et de genres, passant du monologue, à la courte pièce et même au vaudeville. Recueil rétrospectif qui valse entre le comique et le dramatique, en passant par l'absurde.

Les six textes de La Robe de mariée de Gisèle Schmidt sont des nouvelles en forme de théâtre inventées pour défier le temps et se laisser rêver. En guise de présentation, Julie Vincent écrit : « Il y a quelques années on jouait chez Duceppe Ivanov d’Anton Tchekhov. Gisèle Schmidt était de la distribution. Elle regardait une scène d’amour terrible entre Sacha et Ivanov. C’est dans cette coulisse qu’elle m’a dit : J’aurais donné toute ma carrière pour vivre une grande histoire d’amour.

Freeze is an allegorical comedy play that dramatizes the Great Ice Storm of '98 as a metaphor presaging “cooler” more inclusive times in Quebec compared to the separatist firestorms of earlier decades. Five quirky Montrealers, trapped in a power-outed duplex, butt heads in candlelight over love, language and politics, provoking us to ponder with laughter whether Montreal's “two solitudes” of the past has become a stereotype in this new century?

Marinetti Dines with the High Command is a work that dramatizes the turbulent life and times of F. T. Marinetti, founder of Futurism, the first global art movement. Marinetti's artistic career raises enduring questions about art and politics because of his association with Fascism, and the second part of my work is an essay which explores the implications of this association.

Camerado is a play presenting the very dramatic life and compelling thoughts of Walt Whitman, who remains the foremost American poet of the greatness possible in the human spirit, and in the spirit of a vital democracy. His inspiring views and tough criticisms, expressed in simple, but beautiful and powerful language remain as critically relevant to us today as they were in his lifetime.

Les Divines, produced in 1996, continues an exploration of feminism started in Les Fées ont soif in its portrait of seven daughters who reunite in a ritual wake for an idealized mother.