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Kayak

  • Jordan Hall
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary, The Future
  • 1M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573699474

Gripping, heartbreaking.

Lynn Slotkin CBC Radio

A trio of vivid, memorable characters.

Jon Kaplan NOW Magazine

Stellar, insightful writing.

Dave Deveau Plank Magazine

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary, The Future
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Senior
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Strong Language, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2010 Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest
Alone on a vast stretch of water, Annie Iversen recounts the strange chain of events that left her stranded in her son’s old kayak.

A doting suburban mother, Annie is blindsided when her son, Peter, falls in love with Julie, a passionate environmental activist. Unable to reconcile herself to Julie’s radical worldview, Annie struggles desperately to keep Peter from falling further into the young woman’s dangerous world. Climate change, S’mores, SUVs, and Noah’s Ark are all onstage as Annie sets out to save her son, and unwittingly throws herself into the path of events larger than she ever could have imagined.

Touching and provocative, Kayak invites us all to confront our choices in the landscape of the growing environmental crisis.
REVIEWS:

Gripping, heartbreaking.

Lynn Slotkin CBC Radio

A trio of vivid, memorable characters.

Jon Kaplan NOW Magazine

Stellar, insightful writing.

Dave Deveau Plank Magazine
Premiere Production: Kayak was initially developed as a monologue in a Playwrighting Masterclass at the Tarragon Theatre in December of 2008. Early drafts were presented in a reading at Women Playwrights International in Mumbai India in November of 2009, and as part of Tableau d’Hôte Theatre’s Series of New Canadian Works in Montreal in December of 2009. Kayak was first performed at The Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace as an official selection of the 2010 Summerworks Festival in Toronto, Ontario, on August 6th, 2010. This world premiere production was directed by Tommy Taylor.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Color blind casting

ANNIE IVERSEN - a suburban housewife; various ages, mostly fifty-six
PETER IVERSEN - a recent university graduate; various ages, mostly twenty-four
JULIE DANIELS - a Greenpeace activist; various ages, mostly twenty-three

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Alone on a vast stretch of water, Annie Iversen recounts the strange chain of events that left her stranded in her son’s old kayak. A doting suburban mother, Annie is blindsided when her son, Peter, falls in love with Julie, a passionate environmental activist. Unable to reconcile herself to Julie’s radical worldview, Annie struggles desperately to keep Peter from falling further into the young woman’s dangerous world. Climate change, S’mores, SUVs, and Noah’s Ark are all onstage as Annie sets out to save her son, and unwittingly throws herself into the path of events larger than she ever could have imagined. Touching and provocative, Kayak invites us all to confront our choices in the landscape of the growing environmental crisis.

$24.95

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