When fifteen-year-old Anna is told that her mother is dying of cancer, she responds in the only way she knows how—by ignoring the issue. Friends and family are unable to understand her reaction and Anna is increasingly frustrated by their attempts to help her, escalated of course by her persistent itching. Told by Anna with assistance from her best friend, father, aunt, and her dying mother, Scratch is a fresh, funny, and realistic play about the urgency of life and the need to live it to the fullest extent.

Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman is a Governor General’s Literary Award– and Dora Mavor Moore Award–nominated playwright, winner of the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition, and the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. She graduated from the playwriting program at the National Theatre School and writes for theatre, radio, film, and television. Her writing includes The End of Pretending with Emily Sugarman, Twisted with Joseph Jomo Pierre, Scratch, and Sudden Death. She directed and co-created Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show and wrote for CBC Radio’s Afganada and for the TV series KING. Currently she is developing two new musicals as well as three feature films. She lives in Toronto.

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• Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama

"This play present[s] a very honest depiction of a young woman's grief, and it is through this honesty that it succeeds." —MONDOmagazine