Category: Plays

  • Tales from the Road: Bikes and Bombers

    Tales from the Road: Bikes and Bombers

    After two weeks of rumbling up and down sun-baked asphalt, we donned our jackets as a cool wind wafted us home. Still, fourteen days without raingear is divine, and all those opportunities to connect with family and friends—priceless. Here’s an account. After visiting my dad’s sister and cousin in Medicine Hat, our first stop was…

  • Farewell to North Van and Diamond Girls

    Farewell to North Van and Diamond Girls

    June 6-10, 2023 is in the rearview mirror now, but what a week! I’m deeply sad that I had to turn down being in Ogema for the filming of the Mary Baker/ Heritage Canada vignette, which coincided with my trip to Vancouver. But I wouldn’t have missed Deep Cove Stage Society’s production of #diamondgirls or…

  • Diamond Girls Opens in North Van

    Diamond Girls Opens in North Van

    Today I’m in Vancouver, on the cusp of opening night at Deep Cove Stage Society’s production of Diamond Girls. For those of you who are not familiar with this play, I wrote it nearly eight years ago. Diamond Girls tells the story of the AAGPBL, as experienced by three Saskatchewan women: Mary “Bonnie” Baker, Arleene…