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EVENTS| Date | Play | Author | Synopsis | Cast | Subsequently... |
| 12.12.99 | "The Life and Death of an English Teacher in Paris" | Eric Needham | An English school somewhere in Paris. Teachers are special, aren't they? They are always alone. Who are they, all these little lost islands? Alone and lost in the big blue sea of another country, another culture, another language. People come to Paris to die... | Amy Berkeley, Stephanie Campion,
Eduardo Cué, Justin Hillier, Paolo de Paola, Michael Stokes |
Second reading on 6th February 2000 |
| 14.11.99 bilingual evening | "Shoes" | Eric Needham | Jacques Le Duc | ||
| 31.10.99 | "Donald's Affair" | Paolo de Paola | Donald is blocked. In the solitude of his apartment, his Muse whispers words in his ear in vain: his novel has stagnated for two years. Then he meets a woman, seated alone at a café terrasse. She is beautiful, speaks a foreign language, and seems to have stepped straight out of his dreams. Could she help him finish his novel? And if so, how is he going to explain that to his Muse? | Stephanie Campion, Sally Ann Cojean, Eduardo Cué, Georgia Smith | Published in French as "Donald sa Muse" by the Canadian publisher Editions du Marais |
| 17.10.99 | "The Vase" | Georgia Smith | Bridget and Donald are divorcing with such sensible good humor that even they have trouble believing it - until, while sorting out their possessions, they find an antique vase that each of them would very much like to keep. Polite disagreement hardens quickly into a brittle impasse -- all in front of their teenage daughter, Caitlin. At this delicate moment, Bridget's brother Steve arrives with his lover Nathan, to take Caitlin away for the summer. As relations between Bridget and Donald move inexorably toward a violent rupture, the gay couple is obliged to become the family's base of stability and good sense. | Eric Connor, Eddie Crew, Bill Dunn, Linda Healey, Laure Millet, Paolo de Paola | Staged at the Theatre Les Dechargeurs in March 2001 |
| 03.10.99 | "Fruit of thy Womb" | Patricia Goulder | A study of the issues and prejudices surrounding the science of human artificial insemination | Bill Dunn, Fred Gutierrez, Clare MacCallum, Gay Marshall, Georgia Smith, Teresa Tancibok | Second reading on 7th January 2001 |
| 19.09.99 | "Three Paris Adventures" | Ken Mackenzie | . | Stephanie Campion, Eric Connor, Justin Hillier, Murray Simpson, Georgia Smith | Second reading on 9th October 2008 |
| 11.07.99 | "Love and Marriage" | Anne Pawle | . | Stephanie Campion, Joy Chaitin, Lesley Phillips, Perrine Simon, Murray Simpson | |
| 27.06.99 | "Sisters in the Dark" and "Hollywood Mariner" | by Vivienne Vermes and Murray Simpson | . | Sonia Backers, Stephanie Campion, Helen Later, Irene Palko, Murray Simpson, Vivienne Vermes | |
| 30.05.99 | "?" and "Wishing Well" | by Marnie Perrin and Eric Needham | Diane Bertrand, Stephanie Campion, Eduardo Cué | ||
| 16.05.99 | "?" and "?" | by Betty Moore and Jerry Prillaman | . | Stephanie Campion, Joy Chaitin, Eric Connor, Eddie Crew, JoAnne Marie, Murray Simpson, Teresa Tancibok | |
| 02.05.99 | "???" | Shelly de Vito and Patricia Brien | Stephanie Campion, Henri de Feraudy, Justin Hillier, Murray Simpson | ||
| 23.04.99 | "Legacy" | Joy Chaitin | Philadelphia, 1980. Three sisters-in-law : a leftover flower child, a medical school dropout and a prosecuting attorney - meet to divide the contents of their recently-deceased mother-in-law's household. But what starts out as a traditional "grab" develops into a confrontation between three generations of women and the heritage of patriarchy. | Diane Bertrand, Stephanie Campion, Sally Ann Cojean, Eddie Crew, Lesley Phillips, Georgia Smith | Translated into French and read at Bordeaux in April 2005 |
| 18.04.99 | "The Vase" | Georgia Smith | Bridget and Donald are divorcing with such sensible good humor that even they have trouble believing it - until, while sorting out their possessions, they find an antique vase that each of them would very much like to keep. Polite disagreement hardens quickly into a brittle impasse -- all in front of their teenage daughter, Caitlin. At this delicate moment, Bridget's brother Steve arrives with his lover Nathan, to take Caitlin away for the summer. As relations between Bridget and Donald move inexorably toward a violent rupture, the gay couple is obliged to become the family's base of stability and good sense. | Linda Healey, Laure Millet, Paolo de Paola, Erik Rutherford |
Second reading on 17th October 1999 |
| 21.03.99 | "One Man No Chop" | Ken Mackenzie | "You cannot shoot a man here, in the offices of the British Council. Here we fill out forms before we act. We have just installed new carpets, and it would be inappropriate to have a bloodstain." While Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is played out for real in the British Consulate of a West African country, the reporter must make sure to get the age of the dead man right. | Diane Bertrand, Stephanie Campion, Linda Healey, Justin Hillier, Marie Houzelle, Ken Mackenzie, JoAnne Marie, Eric Needham, Jerry Prillaman, Georgia Smith, Yuriko Tamaki | |
| 21.02.99 | "Legacy" | Joy Chaitin | Philadelphia, 1980. Three sisters-in-law : a leftover flower child, a medical school dropout and a prosecuting attorney - meet to divide the contents of their recently-deceased mother-in-law's household. But what starts out as a traditional "grab" develops into a confrontation between three generations of women and the heritage of patriarchy. | Diane Bertrand, Stephanie Campion, Sally Ann Cojean, Helen Later, JoAnne Marie, Gay Marshall, Betty Moore, Irene Palko | Second reading on 23rd April 1999 |
| 24.01.99 | "The House" | Laure Millet | Amanda Brown, Eric Connor, Linda Healey, Jerry Prillaman, Erik Rutherford, Georgia Smith | Second reading on 23rd January 2000 | |
| 10.01.99 | "Nellie Melba" | Grahame Elliott | A fantasy about the life of Australia's greatest star, by a compatriate author and musician. | Diane Bertrand, Stephanie Campion, Joy Chaitin, Eddie Crew, Henri de Feraudy, Pierre Fontenay, Ken Mackenzie, Betty Moore, Lesley Phillips, Murray Simpson |
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