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Writing with Our Feet

by (author) Dave Carley

Publisher
J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Initial publish date
Jan 1992
Subjects
Canadian

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Description

Writing With Our Feet, a finalist for the Governor-General’s award, is a black comedy for agoraphobics about the creative impulse and the need to fling open one’s garage door and join the world.

About the author

Dave Carley is a Toronto-based playwright whose plays have had close to 500 productions across Canada, the United States and in many countries around the world. They include Midnight Madness, Writing with Our Feet (nominated for the Governor General's Award), After You, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel The Edible Woman, Taking Liberties, and Orchidelirium. Dave is the former editor at the Playwrights Union of Canada (now Playwrights Guild) and, for many years, was both script editor at CBC Radio Drama and play editor for Scirocco Drama. Dave's most recent full-length works have been Twelve Hours; an adaptation of Al Purdy's novel A Splinter in the Heart, and Canadian Rajah. He is currently completing a new work for stage: Hope is a Bird.

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