Dave Carley
Three Plays
- Publisher
- J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2003
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920486436
- Publish Date
- Oct 2003
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
This collection features three of Dave Carleys finest comedies, including: Midnight Madness, a gentle two-hander about the chance reunion of a pair of high school misfits; Writing With Our Feet, a black comedy for agoraphobics; and Into, where an urban nun, a mysterious beauty, a businessman, and a disaffected youth are stuck in a traffic jam outside a metropolis.
About the author
Dave Carley is a Toronto-based playwright whose plays have had close to 500 productions across Canada, the United States and in many countries around the world. They include Midnight Madness, Writing with Our Feet (nominated for the Governor General's Award), After You, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel The Edible Woman, Taking Liberties, and Orchidelirium. Dave is the former editor at the Playwrights Union of Canada (now Playwrights Guild) and, for many years, was both script editor at CBC Radio Drama and play editor for Scirocco Drama. Dave's most recent full-length works have been Twelve Hours; an adaptation of Al Purdy's novel A Splinter in the Heart, and Canadian Rajah. He is currently completing a new work for stage: Hope is a Bird.