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Written by: Sarena Parmar
Genre: Adaptation, Drama
Length: 120 min.
Sarena Parmar’s The Orchard (After Chekhov) is an adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, told through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh family in the Okanagan Valley. With The Okanagan Valley, Canada, 1967. A Punjabi-Sikh family in a rural farming community. Still grieving the loss of her youngest son, the matriarch...
Written by: Christine Foster
Genre: Adaptation, Adventure, TYA
Length: 25 min.
The famous short story of the brave mongoose, Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling, brought to life in this fun and vibrant adaptation by Christine Foster. Suitable to be performed by children and adults alike and a spectacle for all ages.
Written by: Marion Johnson
Genre: Adaptation, Classical, Drama
Length: 80 min.
In the final year of his life, Heathcliff is desperate for reunion with the one creature in the universe that he loves, Cathy Earnshaw (Linton), who died in childbirth 18 years earlier. Heathcliff now lives only to take revenge against those who wronged him, the Lintons and the Earshaws, by...
Written by: Marion Johnson
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Period Piece, Romantic Comedy, Suitable for Secondary School
Length: 110 min.
Emma Woodhouse doesn’t need to get married–she already has money and social standing–but she enjoys finding marriage partners for other people, especially her little friend Harriet Smith, the ‘natural daughter of nobody knows who.’ Emma sabotages a proposal from the farmer Robert Martin in hopes of matching Harriet with the...
Written by: Tracy Krauss
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Fantasy, TYA
Length: 90 min.
So… you think you know Captain Hook? Well, think again! Hook is actually a neurotic female. Her personal psychiatrist, Dr. Anna Lize, is on board and ready to take on Hook’s tantrums, not to mention mediate between Hook and her manipulative cougar of a mother. Add to the cast a...
Written by: Christine Foster
Genre: Adaptation, Adventure, Myth/Legend/Folktale, TYA
Length: 50 min.
“(In 1830’s Nova Scotia) Tamlyn, an adventurous young man, is captured by the Elfin Queen and forced to serve as her knight. Katherine must brave sprites and bogles, riddles and a changeling child in an effort to set him free. Her quest culminates in a swordfight which pits the innocent...
Written by: Beverley Cooper, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Length: 90 min.
“Clue in the Fast Lane is a spoof on the Nancy Drew mystery genre. Capable Nancy Prew finds herself drawn into mysterious circumstances as she is jettisoned into the future.” (From the CPO Website)