Murdoch is a charming, yarn-spinning, old-school, white Canadian cop. His wife is a doctor: young, beautiful, smart, a Muslim Uyghur–and a suspect. She has a lot to confess. So does he. Murder, betrayal, politics and the war on terror: a love story. Two Rooms was awarded the 2010 John V. Hicks Manuscript Award from the Saskatchewan Writers Guild and the 2010 Uprising National Playwriting Competition from the Downstage Performance Society and the Consortium for Peace Studies at the University of Calgary. The play is being translated into French by Governor General’s Award winner, Jean-Marc Dalpé, and will be produced by Sudbury’s Le Théatre du Novel-Ontario and in Ottawa by Théatre de la Vieille.

Mansel Robinson’s plays have been produced across the country and include Colonial Tongues, Collateral Damage, The Heart As It Lived, Downsizing Democracy, Spitting Slag, Ghost Trains, and Street Wheat. Scorched Ice, a cold–war drama, was recently produced by Last Exit Theatre in Saskatoon. He has been nominated twice for Saskatchewan Book of the Year and is winner of the John V. Hicks Award and Geist Magazine&3146;s Award for Distance Writing. Robinson has been writer–in–residence at the Pierre Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon; Northern Light Theatre in Edmonton; at the University of Windsor; and at the Regina Public Library in 2005/06. Current projects include Bite the Hand, which was presented as a staged reading at the Saskatchewan Playwrights’ Centre’s 2005 Spring Festival of New Plays. He is also working on a satire about gangsters and academia. Originally from Chapleau, Northern Ontario, Robinson is based in Saskatoon.

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