The Unplugging
| Title | The Unplugging |
| Year for Search | 2014 |
| Authors | Nolan, Yvette(b. 1961) |
| Pagination | 69 pp. |
| Date Published | 2014 |
| Publisher | Playwrights Canada Press |
| Place Published | Toronto, ON, Canada |
| ISBN Number | 9781770911321 |
| Keywords | Canadian author, Female author, First Nations author |
| Annotation | The play is set after an unexplained “unplugging” in which all electricity stops everywhere. It focuses on two old women who are expelled from a community because old women were considered worthless. But the women have knowledge and survival skills that the community has lost. |
| Additional Publishers | Originally entitled Two Old Women, was first read at Native Earth Performing Art’s Weesageechak Begins to Dance XXII in January 2010, was workshopped at the Playwrights Theatre Centre in Vancouver, and read at the Banff Playwrights Colony, and the Arts Club Theatre ReACT festival, all in 2010. In 2011, it was read at the University of Toronto’s Festival of Original Theatre, the Matariki Festival in Wellington, New Zealand, and at the Reverie Productions in New York City. As The Unplugging, it opened at Factory Theatre in a Native Earth Performing Arts Production in March 2015 directed by Nina Lee Aquino. It won the 2013 Jessie Richardson Award for outstanding original script. |
| Title Note | Originally entitled Two Old Women |
| Holding Institutions | PPT |
| Author Note | Canadian, First Nations (Algonquin) female author (b. 1961) |
| Full Text | 2014 Nolan, Yvette (b. 1961). The Unplugging. Toronto, ON, Canada: Playwrights Canada Press. 69 pp. Originally entitled Two Old Women, was first read at Native Earth Performing Art’s Weesageechak Begins to Dance XXII in January 2010, was workshopped at the Playwrights Theatre Centre in Vancouver, and read at the Banff Playwrights Colony, and the Arts Club Theatre ReACT festival, all in 2010. In 2011, it was read at the University of Toronto’s Festival of Original Theatre, the Matariki Festival in Wellington, New Zealand, and at the Reverie Productions in New York City. As The Unplugging, it opened at Factory Theatre in a Native Earth Performing Arts Production in March 2015 directed by Nina Lee Aquino. It won the 2013 Jessie Richardson Award for outstanding original script. PPT The play is set after an unexplained “unplugging” in which all electricity stops everywhere. It focuses on two old women who are expelled from a community because old women were considered worthless. But the women have knowledge and survival skills that the community has lost. Canadian, First Nations (Algonquin) female author. |
