About the Play:

Cottage Radio & Other Plays is a collection of three full-length plays by Taylor Marie Graham. The titlular Cottage Radio zeroes in on the sarcastic, charismatic Marley clan as they band together in the aftermath of a storm. White Wedding explores all those inevitable, big life questions that surface after the anticipation of a wedding is over. Post Alice is full of ghost stories, songs and mysteries inspired by four haunting characters from iconic Alice Munro stories.

Cottage Radio & Other Plays animates a wild cast of Southwestern Ontario characters – particularly its strong, hilarious rural women – with complex histories and relationships to the land.

Cottage Radio explores the effect of the horrific storm on the fictional, yet very recognizable Marley clan. The family is forced to deal with the horrific events of the storm that are currently bringing them together, while confronting all the past events that kept them apart for so long. Cottage Radio is inspired by the true events of the Goderich, Ontario 2011 F3 class tornado. (Cast: 3 female, 2 male)

White Wedding is a large-cast comedy set at a wedding reception in an old high school, where friends and lovers sneak off to reconnect and swim in nostalgia. (Cast: 6 female, 3 male)

Post Alice weaves a true Huron County mystery into an evening of stories, song, and secrets as four women (reminiscent of four of Alice Munro's protagonists) gather around a fire and begin to wonder what really happened to Mistie Murray, a teenager who disappeared in the mid-nineties. (Cast: 4 female)

What people say:

"Cottage Radio is a dynamic, complex, and very funny play ... Taylor Graham has written such rich and delicious characters, people who are familiar and yet presented in an utterly unique way. I am thrilled to see such a powerful play set in small town Ontario – true Canadiana, and yet, universal." — Judith Thompson

"White Wedding was such an uncommonly cool theatrical experience ... The show explores unrequited love, the ways in which nostalgia can affect our choices and memories, and whether or not love actually conquers all...." — Mooney on Theatre

"Post Alice ... is one of the most exciting new Canadian plays I’ve seen for some time ... a lyric, Chekhovian meditation on the loss of the past and the loss of the people we once thought we were ... This is a profound, beautifully crafted play." — Stage Door

About the Playwright:

Taylor Marie Graham is an award-winning playwright, librettist, director, Canadian theatre researcher, and educator. She lives and works in Cambridge, Ontario, on Treaty 3 Territory. Her Ph.D. research is focused on the Blyth Festival Theatre found in Huron County and on theatre's relationship to questions of nationhood, identity, decolonization, community engagement, and legacy. Cottage Radio and Other Plays is her first published collection of plays.