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Therac 25
Therac 25
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Author: Adam Pettle Publisher: Scirocco Drama (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 48 Pub. Date: 2000 ISBN-10: 1896239706 ISBN-13: 9781896239705 Cast Size: 2 female, 1 male
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About the Play:
Therac
25 has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female/Male Scenes.
Therac
25 is a full-length drama by
Adam Pettle. The story of two young people who meet and embark
on a prickly romance in the hospital ward where they are both
undergoing cancer treatment. Humourous and moving, Therac 25
is a love story unlike any other – a play you won't easily forget.
Therac 25 centres around two young adults who are battling
two very different cancers. Alan and Moira meet in the corridors of a
hospital ward where both undergoing a daily regimen of chemotherapy.
Supporters who find an escape from the monotony and exhausting cycle
of cancer treatments in each other. The title is both the name of a
ward at Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital and a computerized
radiation-therapy machine. Their friendship deepens even as they
endure painful treatments and, against the odds, friendship turns to
love. Therac 25 is a simple and beautiful play that tackles
themes of fear, trust and courage with wry humour. An intensely
personal piece, a first play written by Adam Pettle at the age
of 22 while undergoing radiation treatment for thyroid cancer.
Therac 25 was first produced in 1995 at the Halifax Fringe
Festival, while he was studying acting at Dalhousie University. It
was first seen in Toronto in 1997 at Tarragon Extra Space where it
played to sold-out audiences during the SummerWorks Festival and was
nominated for Best New Play at the Dora Awards.
Cast: 2 female, 1 male
What people say:
"A considerable achievement
... yields a bounty of laughs, but gives voice to a full range of
emotional expression. This one has hit written all over it."
— Toronto Star
"Edgy and moving ... filled
with humour and tenderness." — NOW Magazine
"Pettle's sense of humour and
his unflinching honesty puts us on the edge where comedy and tragedy
fuse in a dance like fire. One of the most powerful, most liberating
experiences of live theatre I've ever lived through." —
Halifax Chronicle-Herald
About the Playwright:
Adam Pettle is an award-winning Canadian playwright, radio
producer, and television writer. He has been the showrunner and
executive producer on several Canadian and American television
series. He originally intended to be an actor. That career was
derailed when he was struck by cancer; he survived, but the treatment
left him with a depleted vocal cord, making full-time acting
impractical. A graduate of the National Theatre School's playwriting
programme, he began his writing life in the theatre, where he penned
numerous critically acclaimed plays, including Therac 25, Zadie's
Shoes, and Sunday Father (all Dora-nominated for Best New Play). He
also co-created and wrote over 100 episodes on the hit radio series
Afghanada, which ran on CBC radio from 2005 through 2008.
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