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Writing With Our Feet
Writing With Our Feet
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Author: Dave Carley Publisher: Scirocco Drama Format: Softcover # of Pages: 64 Pub. Date: 1992 ISBN-10: 0921368208 ISBN-13: 9780921368205 Cast Size: 1 woman, 1 man
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About
the Play:
Finalist for the 1991 Governor General's Award for Drama (Canadian
equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize).
Writing With Our Feet is a full-length comedy by Dave
Carley. This beautifully written piece tells the story of a man
wants the world to just leave him alone. Sound familiar?
Jean-Francois is an agoraphobic who finds sanctuary in his garage.
Haunted by the memory of his dead sister, he learns to overcome his
fears and takes a leap of faith as he struggles to re-enter the world
of the living.
Writing With Our Feet tells the story of Jean-Francois who
is an agoraphobic living out his life in a garage underneath an
access ramp in Montréal. His beloved sister Sophie, his last link
with the outside world, has just died. She had been his contact with
the outside world and, now that she is gone, the future looks grim
for Jean-Francois. Somehow, he must summon the courage to leave his
garage – the place where he and Sophie learned to write with their
feet, in preparation for that terrible day when they might lose the
use of their hands. But suddenly a series of visitations begin
happening – some miraculous, some upsetting. Jean-Francois'
sanctuary is invaded by his Cousin Alphonsinette and her miraculous
invention; his battle-axe Aunt Zenaide, the famous industrial
designer Raymond Loewy, his onetime girlfriend Lucy Cormier and the
parish priest, Father Rocky. Hovering above them all is
Jean-Francois' guardian angel, his sister Sophie. She must furiously
orchestrate her brother's emergence into the wider world, before she
disappears forever into the ether. Writing With Our Feet is a
black comedy about about agoraphobics, the creative impulse, and the
need to fling open one's garage door and join the world.
Writing With Our Feet premiered in 1990 at Theatre Terra
Nova in Hamilton and was a finalist for the 1991 Governor General's
Award for Drama. Since then
the play has been successfully staged at several professional and
community theatres
across Canada, and in college theatre productions as a showcase of
student talent.
Cast: 1 woman, 1 man
What people say:
"Literate, thoughtful,
bizarrely hilarious — it is a play that urges and celebrates any
leap of faith." — Hamilton Spectator
"Wonderful fun! Fanciful and
hyperactively witty!" — Globe and Mail
"Clever, elegant humour.
Imaginative flights of fancy…" — Toronto Star
About the Playwright:
Dave Carley is a Canadian playwright. He has written for
stage, radio and television. His plays have had close to 500
productions, and have been produced across Canada and the United
States, and in many countries around the world. His plays have won,
or been nominated for, a number of awards, including the Governor
General's Award, The Chalmers Award, The Dora Award, The Arthur
Miller Award (University of Michigan) and the New York International
Radio Festival Award.
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