Playwrights Canada Press, 2017

Playwrights Canada Press

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Roles: Total (3), Female (3), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...In Bluebirds, Thiessen brings to light the stories of three Canadian nurses who crossed oceans to take care of others in the war. Bonding over their duties and patients, the nurses keep up a positive atmosphere, even as the front line draws...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2015

Playwrights Canada Press

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (12), Female (2), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Einstein’s Gift follows the life and work of Nobel laureate Dr Fritz Haber, a man who risked everything for a country that never accepted him. Haber, a chemist who worked hard to enhance life, discovered too late that when his knowledge...

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...After Vladimir Lenin’s death, Stalin orders two Jewish scientists to preserve Lenin’s body for all time. If they succeed, the rewards will be considerable. If not, it’s the gulag – or worse. Based on real events, Vern Theissen’s nimble dark...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2011

Playwrights Canada Press

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (1), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...When Boris Zbarsky and Vladimir Vorobiev, two Jewish biochemists, are recruited by Josef Stalin to embalm Lenin after his death, both men are pushed to their limits in preserving the former Soviet leader so that he may physically live...

Playwrights Canada Press, 2017

Playwrights Canada Press

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (8), Female (1), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they’ll be sent next: back home or back to the front. Along with a young nurse from Nova Scotia...