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Mark Brownell

Mark is a Toronto–based playwright and co–artistic director of the Pea Green Theatre Group with his wife and partner Sue Miner. Mark’s stage plays include: The Martha Stewart Projects, Playballs, The Blue Wall, Medici Slot Machine, and High Sticking. In 2001, Mark was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for his play Monsieur d’Eon. He also received a Dora Mavor Moore Award with Chan Ka Nin for the opera Iron Road. In 2006, Mark received a Dora Mavor Moore nomination for his play Medici Slot Machine. Other works include The Weaving Maiden (Soundstreams/Tafelmusik Choir), Ice Time (Tapestry Music/Opera to Go), The Chevalier St. George (Tafelmusik Baroque Ensemble), and The Storyteller’s Bag (Mississauga Chamber Ensemble/Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People).

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BREAK A LEG!

BREAK A LEG!

An Actor’s Guide to Theatrical Practices, Phrases, and Superstitions
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Do you hear booing from the blue fairies when you tread the boards? Did your clap trap work on the claque? Did that flash pot set off “Mr. Sands” in the first electric? Do you even know what those last three sentences mean? If not, then you need to read this book! Authors Mark Brownell and Sue Miner have compiled this one-of-a-kind glossary of …

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High Sticking

High Sticking

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High Sticking,a collection of four short plays about hockey, explores the Canadian passion for the sport … as well as some of our other national obsessions! In Coach Kingston Tells It Like It Is, the coach educates a minor hockey dad on the importance of anger, hatred, loathing, giving 115 percent, and the immortal soul. Eleanor, St. Etheldrum's …

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Medici Slot Machine

Medici Slot Machine

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Medici Slot Machine is a highly theatrical and surrealistic look at the life of American artist Joseph Cornell. Cornell, who is famous for his collage boxes of dime-store objects, excelled at turning the ordinary into the sacred. In real life, Joseph Cornell was a recluse who used his art to escape his family, his sterile suburban life, and his own …

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Monsieur d'Eon

Monsieur d'Eon

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