Mistatim / Instant

By (author): Erin Shields

From an idea by: Sandra Laronde

Foreword by: Stephen Colella

In these two plays for young audiences, award-winning playwright Erin Shields presents the challenges of friendship and communication.

In Mistatim, which is based on a concept from Sandra Laronde of Red Sky Performance, two eleven-year-olds strike up an unlikely friendship at the fence between one’s reserve and the other’s ranch. On Speck’s side, she’s carved names of family members into the wooden posts as she tries to piece together her identity. On Calvin’s side, he’s trying to train a horse in order to prove himself to his father. When Speck realizes she can communicate with Calvin’s horse Mistatim, the pair work to liberate the animal, and in the process learn about one another’s cultures.

In Instant, three teens find out how far they’ll go in their quest to be seen and heard. Meredith is a singer-songwriter who makes YouTube videos of covers in an attempt to gain Internet fame. But her friend Jay, a rising hockey star, can’t understand why she won’t post her original songs. When their classmate Rosie suddenly goes viral after a video is posted of her singing to raise money for her father’s medical bills, Meredith’s jealousy takes over and she pushes Rosie too far, triggering a near-deadly response.

AUTHOR

Erin Shields

Erin Shields is a Canadian playwright based in Toronto. Much of her work highlights the negation or misrepresentation of women in classical texts by adapting these stories through a feminist lens for a contemporary audience. Erin has won numerous awards for her work including the Governor General’s Literary Award for If We Were Birds and the Quebec Writers Federation Prize for Paradise Lost and The Millennial Malcontent. Other plays include Jane Eyre (Citadel Theatre), Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish Productions/Segal Centre), Beautiful Man (Factory Theatre), The Lady from the Sea (Shaw Festival), and Instant (Geordie Theatre/YPT).


Reviews

“[Mistatim] vibrates with energetic freedom and thrilling eye-opening discovery.”


“[Instant is] an important, perceptive play for our times.”


Awards

  • Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding TYA Production 2018, Winner
  • Shenzen Youth Drama Month Award for Best Script 2017, Winner
  • Montreal English Theatre Award for Outstanding New Text 2017, Winner
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    Dimensions:

    128 Pages
    8.30in * 5.30in * .40in
    160.00gr

    Published:

    November 28, 2018

    ISBN:

    9781770919297

    Book Subjects:

    DRAMA / Canadian

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    Language:

    eng

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