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Bottoms Up!, my new interactive play about voting and freedom of choice, was workshopped with high school drama students in Deep River and Peterborough in 2006, thanks to Ontario Arts Council and Laidlaw Foundation funding. Musician/actor Dianne Latchford < www.diannelatchford.com > wrote the music. The play is now available for production.
Dead And Living, published by Mercury Press, is a novel based on the true story of a man who did not know, for 25 years, whether he was a murderer. Finally he went to court to find out. A psychological 'whodunit,' the novel explores the difference between truth and justice in Canada, and the timeless power of the human spirit.
Shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award in 1994, Dead And Living has just been selected for a Carleton University literature and law course.
"Should please crime fans." Quill & Quire
"The real strength of Dead And Living is its refusal to yield the simple solution, to equate a mere trial with something so elusive as the truth." Halifax Daily News
ISBN 1-55128-007-8 Order from Mercury Press
Through The Fire brings Canadian pioneer Martha Hutchison, wife of Dr. John Hutchison of Peterborough, back to Hutchison House 160 years after she was forced to leave it in 1847. Produced in 1993 and published in 1994, the play has three characters:
Lettie, an elderly woman in a wheelchair who has come to Hutchison House after hours to research her family;
Hecate, the all-knowing mythological crone; and
Martha, whom they conjure between them.
Through The Fire's themes of female freedoms and societal repression are universal. According to a literature professor at India's University of Rajasthan in 2000:
"This play speaks for me. I am Martha."
At The Foot Of The Rapids is the story of the place where the Otonabee River runs through what is now the City of Peterborough. Published by the City as a Millennium Project, this brief history starts 10,000 years ago, moving through all the different people and landscapes to arrive at Peterborough today. The book's great strength lies in the marriage of Jane's text with historic photographs taken from the Balsillie Collection Of Roy Studio Images, and its design by Jerrard Smith of Tricksters Design.
A second edition was released in 2005.
ISBN 0-9688375-0-6
Wild Harmony is a collection of three short stories.Originally published in small literary journals, the stories have been illustrated in this collection by some of my photography. The first story, called " A Screw Is Loosened," speaks to the lack of humanity in government unemployment bureaucracies. "Wild Harmony's" main character discovers the freedom that comes from losing a job in the city. "A Tombstone Or A Monument?" is set during a brutal, tragic and little-known labour conflict in the Northern Ontario bush.
Soul Skin is a narrated movement and dance play that recreates the ancient northern myth about the Hunter who comes upon the Sealwomen dancing on a rocky outcropping in the freezing northern sea. Produced at Peterborough's Market Hall Theatre in 1996, Soul Skin retells the myth from a modern perspective that includes two pivotal changes.
