Most of Joan’s plays seem to be about feisty women battling it out against enormous odds to final victory. Recently she prefers the theatre verbatim style—Two Years in Nicola (two sisters in the early western Canada), Rebel Women (militant UK suffragettes) and most recently Changed Utterly (Constance Markievicz, an Irish rebel in the Easter Rising). This last will play in Vancouver in February 2019. She has her own company, Vital Spark theatre, and is Vice President of United Players of Vancouver.