Cottage Radio and Other Plays
Cottage Radio, White Wedding, Post Alice, and Corporate Finch
Cottage Radio & Other Plays animates a wild cast of Southwestern Ontario characters – particularly its strong, hilarious rural women – with complex histories and relationships to the land. The titlular Cottage Radio zeroes in on the sarcastic, charismatic Marley clan as they band together in the aftermath of a storm. White Wedding is a large-cast comedy set at a wedding reception in an old high school, where friends and lovers sneak off to reconnect and swim in nostalgia. Post Alice weaves a true Huron County mystery into an evening of stories, song, and secrets as four women (reminiscent of four Alice Munro protagonists) gather around a fire and begin to wonder what really happened to Mistie Murray, a teenager who disappeared in the mid-nineties.
Taylor Marie Graham is an award-winning playwright, librettist, director, Canadian theatre researcher, and educator. She lives and works in Cambridge, Ontario, on Treaty 3 Territory. Her Ph.D. research is focused on the Blyth Festival Theatre found in Huron County and on theatre’s relationship to questions of nationhood, identity, decolonization, community engagement, and legacy. Cottage Radio and Other Plays is her first published collection of plays.
