About this Play:

Quiller has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Male Monologues.

The volume Tiln & Other Plays features three short plays by Michael Cook: Tiln, Quiller, and Therese's Creed.

In Tiln, two old men are caught in a personal power struggle. Using a lighthouse setting, Cook explores the modern man's dilemma in an uncaring world. (Cast: 2 male)

In contrast, Quiller is a one-person play set in a Newfoundland outport. In this play, Michael Cook creates a portrait of an old man assessing his empty life. (Cast: 1 male)

Theresa's Creed is similar to Quiller in that Michael Cook again returns to the one-person format in an outport setting but here he explores the female role. (Cast: 1 female)

About the Playwright:

Michael Cook (1933-1994) was a Canadian dramatist, director, critic, actor, and professor of English at Memorial University. Born to an Anglo-Irish family in London, England, he emigrated to Canada in 1966 and rapidly built a reputation in the 1970s as a playwright of Newfoundland life, history and culture – the most notable of which are Jacob's Wake and the one-act dramas collected in Tiln & Other Plays. He was the outstanding Canadian radio dramatist of his generation writing over fifty plays for CBC Radio and Television, and a theatre reviewer writing columns for the St. John's Evening Telegram.