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Jenny’s House of Joy © Copyright 2006, Norm Foster
First edition: February 2007
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Foster, Norm, 1949-
Jenny’s house of joy / Norm Foster.
A play.
ISBN 978-0-88754-688-4
I. Title.
PS8561.O7745J46 2007 |
C812’.54 |
C2007-900413-X |
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NORM FOSTER was born in Newmarket, Ontario in 1949. He attended West Hill Collegiate High School in Toronto. He studied Radio and Television Arts at Centennial College in Toronto, and at Confederation College in Thunder Bay. Norm wrote two plays for Malcolm Black, then Artistic Director of Theatre New Brunswick. Those two plays, Sinners and The Melville Boys, were enormously successful for Theatre New Brunswick. The Melville Boys has made Foster one of Canada’s most produced playwrights. The Affections of May, Sinners and The Melville Boys have been translated into French.
Jenny’s House of Joy was first produced at the Lighthouse Festival Theatre in Port Dover, Ontario, from June 6-30, 2006, with the following company:
ANITA |
Mary Ashton |
JENNY |
Christy Bruce |
NATALIE |
Maria Dinn |
FRANCES |
Patricia Vanstone |
CLARA |
Bonnie McDougall |
Directed by Christopher McHarge
Set Design by William Chesney
Costume Design by Linda Varey and Judy Malpass
Stage Managed by Barbara McLean Wright
CHARACTERS
JENNY |
mid-thirties |
FRANCES |
forty-five |
ANITA |
twenties |
NATALIE |
twenties |
CLARA |
fifty |