Mary's Wedding
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2016
- Subjects
- Canadian, Historical
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- ISBN
- 9781770915442
- Publish Date
- Apr 2016
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Description
With innocence and humour, Mary and Charlie discover a charming first love. But the year is 1914, and the world is collapsing into a brutal war. Together, they attempt to hide their love, galloping through the fields for a place and time where the tumultuous uncertainties of battle can’t find them. A play with a heart as big as the skies that serve as its stage, Mary’s Wedding is an epic, unforgettable story of love, hope, and survival.
About the author
Stephenâ??s award-winning plays Looking After Eden, Pervert, and The Boyâ??s Own Jedi Handbook series originated at Calgaryâ??s Ground Zero Theatre. In 2002, his play Maryâ??s Wedding premiered at Alberta Theatre Projectsâ?? playRites Festival and won the 2000 Alberta Playwriting Competition, the 2002 Betty Mitchell Award for Best New Play, and the 2003 Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama at the Alberta Literary Awards. Maryâ??s Wedding continues to be produced throughout the US, Canada, and the UK. In 2006, The Oxford Roof Climberâ??s Rebellion was produced as a co-production between the Tarragon Theatre and the Great Canadian Theatre Company, and was a hit off-Broadway in 2007. The play won the 2007 Canadian Authors Association Carol Bolt Award and the 2007 Gwen Paris Ringwood Award for Drama at the Alberta Literary Awards. Stephenâ??s filmwriting credits include Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning and The Dark. He has a BFA in drama from the University of Calgary.
Awards
- Winner, Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama (Alberta Literary Awards)
- Winner, Alberta Literary Award for Drama
- Winner, Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play
- Winner, Alberta Playwriting Competition
Editorial Reviews
Massicotte doesn't push his anti-war message. He doesn't have to. The charm of his romance juxtaposed against prosaic descriptions from the trenches… do it for him.
San Francisco Chronicle
If this production had been a videotape I would have rewound it and watched the whole thing all over again the minute it ended.
New York Theatre Review
Puts you in mind of the grand passion of Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, the vastness of their love mirroring the wild tangle of nature.
Washington Times
Mary's Wedding could only have been written by a young playwright because only the young would dare skirt so close to the edge of pulp fiction sentimentality. And only a playwright with mature promise could pull it off.
Calgary Sun
As dreams do, Massicotte's script collages things prosaic with things fantastical, things recalled with things imagined—heightened, skewed memories, letters, news from the war.
CityBeat, Cincinnati
NAFTA commerce should all be this good.
New York Theatre Wire
With an impressive economy of means—only one set, two actors and no intermission—Massicotte has combined a fictional romance with the true story of a heroic World War I exploit.
New York Times