Prairie Nurse

Prairie Nurse, which premiered at the Blyth Festival, is a comedy about two Filipino nurses who come to work at a small-town Saskatchewan hospital in the late 1960s. Cultural clashes, personality differences, homesickness, and the amorous but dim-witted goalie from the local hockey team complicate the women’s lives. Based on the true story of her mother’s immigration to Canada, Badian’s play is part romantic comedy, part farce, and part cultural history.

AUTHOR

Marie Beath Badian

Marie Beath Badian is an award-winning Filipinx Canadian playwright based in T’Karonto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).

Her plays include Prairie Nurse (The Blyth Festival), The Waltz (Factory Theatre), The Best Friend Blanket Fort Show (Young People’s Theatre), The Making of St. Jerome (Next Stage Theatre Festival), Mind Over Matter (Convergence Theatre), and Novena (UnoFestival Victoria). She is the recipient of the 2022 Playwrights Guild of Canada Drama Award for her play Common: A Trilogy.

Marie Beath is a two-time alumnus of the Banff Playwrights Lab. She has developed work in the playwright units of Cahoots Theatre Company, Tarragon Theatre, Soulpepper Playwrights Circle, and Factory Theatre. She was the playwright-in-residence at fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company, Project:Humanity, and the Blyth Festival.

www.mariebeath.com

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Details

Dimensions:

96 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 0.25in
3lb

Published:

April 01, 2017

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing

ISBN:

9781927922316

Book Subjects:

DRAMA / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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