Cover: Jenny’s House of Joy by Norm Foster

Jenny’s House of Joy

by

Norm Foster

Second Scene Editions
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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