Bøger af Bryden MacDonald

A play in which everything, and therefore nothing, is sacred. Cast of 3 women, 5 men and 1 transgendered person.

On a Friday morning in a frighteningly well-groomed living room in Scarborough, Lindalou, 31, is packing up to return to Cape Breton after visiting her mother for the first time in five years. When Lindalou's 16-year-old son, Curtis, steps out for a pack of cigarettes and does not return, Lindalou fears the worst, and Curtis' disappearance is the catalyst for a harrowing weekend. The writing of The Weekend Healer, Bryden MacDonald says, began with a desire to explore the ideas of babies raising babies, the definitions of family, the beauty in what is perceived as obscenity, the pagan soul, and the nature of lies. But ultimately The Weekend Healer is about the birth of reluctant heroes in a confused and congested world.

A faded queen finds his life slipping away when his young lover meets a new man. Cast of 3 men.

Welcome to the small town of Tartan Cross, Nova Scotia, where skeletons rattle in closets and past histories are so intertwined that the lives of four fortysomething, eccentric characters have become so complicated that something needs to change. In the comedy, Odd Ducks, award-winning playwright Bryden MacDonald positions his four characters at the brink of existential angst and the action unfolds from there.At the centre of the drama is Ambrose Archibald, an irredeemable reprobate and the type of guy who rants philosophically at the bar while mooching beer from his friends. Hes a narcissist who thinks hes Gods gift to women. And hes having an affair with the charming and beautiful Mandy Menzies, who was the high school beauty queen but is now stuck in a marriage of convenience and a life of boredom. Her housekeeper, Estelle Carmichael, has seen it all, but her prickly exterior belies a loving heart. The dryly funny Freddy Durdle is the perfect counter-balance to over-the-top Ambrose.All four oddballs seem stuck in their lives, but searing sarcasm relieves the boredom and crazy, everyday dramas aid their struggle to move on and keep things lightCast of 2 women and 2 men.