news | Monday June 17, 2024

Cottage Radio & Other Plays Has Landed!

Big news! Cottage Radio & Other Plays by Taylor Marie Graham is here! The three plays in this collection transport us to Southwestern Ontario and introduce us to the tough and hilarious women of Huron County. 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 of Alice Munro’s protagonists) wonder what really happened to Mistie Murray, a teenager who disappeared in the mid-nineties.

An excerpt from Post Alice:

“EDIE: No? So there’s no wood except for the wood sitting beside
you, and we can’t use it.

BELLE: That’s right.

EDIE: Is it special?

BELLE: Please don’t.

EDIE picks up the wooden leg.

EDIE: Oh my, this is special. It looks like a little art project
going on here.

ONORA: Whoa.

WENLOCK: Edie, that’s um. That’s a …

…BELLE: It’s a leg.

EDIE: (pointing at BELLE’s leg) For your?

BELLE: Obviously not. How could that be for my …

…EDIE: If you want it back, you gotta tell us. What’s the deal? What
did the doctor say?

BELLE: I don’t know. I’m fine. It’s fine.

WENLOCK: Fine?

BELLE: It’s just a leg. It’s a leg, and they say when it’s gone,
all is gone.

WENLOCK: What?

ONORA: Oh my god.

BELLE: No. I mean, once the leg is gone the cancer is
gone, they think.

EDIE: Well fuck, that’s good. Right?

ONORA: Really good.

WENLOCK: You have a cure.

BELLE: Just a little hack job to this little lady here and wham!
Gone. Bye-bye cancer.

EDIE: (giving the leg back to BELLE) Here.”

This trio of plays is not to be missed. Order your copy here