It’s 1924. Rose disappears from a train wreck without a trace. Twenty-five years later her red suitcase arrives anonymously and mysteriously, triggering her daughter’s search for the truth and unlocking a bizarre chain of events. A haunted railway detective, gourmet gangster-chefs, a Puccini-singing ghost, and a host of Dicensian characters populate Vancouver’s underbelly. Wreckage is a stylish “gangster” play with a dark and wicked sense of humour and the theatrical punch of a speeding train.

Sally Stubbs is an award-winning Vancouver-based playwright and educator who also performs, directs and produces. She is currently co-writing a musical set in Vancouver; a TV pilot inspired by Vancouver's first women police officers and her play And Bella Sang With Us; and webisodes inspired by her script Centurions. Sally's published plays include: Wreckage; Herr Beckmann's People; and And Bella Sang With Us (Scirocco Drama). An excerpt of Centurions was published in Ryga: A Journal of Provocations Number 2, (March 2010); and a brief excerpt of Our Ghosts was published online in Understory Magazine Issue 16 (2019): Diverse Stories of Women on Stage.

Sally was born in Winnipeg, where she still has cousins. She was raised in Victoria on Vancouver Island and completed two undergraduate degrees as well as a Master's Degrees in Art History and Writing at UVic where she also taught writing. She, her partner and their cat live in Vancouver, but go back to Victoria a lot. They miss the climate - yes, it's drier than Vancouver - WP, the wild ocean, the slower pace, and old friends.

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“This intriguing play play holds our interest throughout: clever, humourous script.”
- reviewVancouver
”All is not what it appears to be in Wreckage. That makes for compelling drama, especially for mystery lovers, but it also reminds audiences of how tragedy unfolds.”
- Kamloops Daily News