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Therac 25

Therac 25
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
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

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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