Plays by Claire McCague
The Beltane Quest Play Series (co-author)
The Odyssey of Odysseus (2008), The Trials of Perseus (2009), Tamlin (2010), The Sword in the Stone (2011),
The Raven Princes (2012), The Green Knight (2013),
Culhwch & Olwen (2014), Sigurd and the Golden Ring (2015)
Produced by Brian Hayden, The Fraser Common Farm
One Man Romeo & Juliet
Love, dance, duels & death! A fiery distillation of Shakespeare’s classic. One performer. Twelve roles.
Dramatic monologue, 50 minutes
Methinks Productions, Victoria Fringe Festival 2008
Redbird Bluesky
A flame-red bird falls from the sun and befriends young Button.
Drama, Cast: 4, 90 minutes
Final Draught Reading Series, Vancouver, 2008
Jericho in the Morning Light
Jericho is in pain—pain that is not his own—and his almost-sister Ecstasy is missing. He has one night to find her and to figure out if his unique nature is a gift or a curse.
Drama, Cast: 10, 90 minutes
Produced by Methinks Productions, London Fringe Theatre Festival, 2005
Reading, London Public Library, 2004
Staged Reading, Playwrights, Cabaret, The Grand Theatre, London, Ontario, 2004
Tremor
“These lines on paper are not so simple.”
An artist finds that his work with a new model draws his past into the present.
Drama, Cast: 2, 50 minutes
Final Draught Reading Series, Vancouver, 2008
Produced as “Petr’s Boy” by Methinks Productions, Edmonton, London and Toronto Fringe Theatre Festivals, 2006
Most Daring Production, London Fringe Festival, 2006
Produced by Methinks Productions, London Fringe Theatre Festival, 2004
Most Daring Production, London Fringe Festival, 2006
Community Arts Investment Grant, London, Ontario, 2006
Malleus, incus, stapes
Dramatic monologue, 15 minutes
A woman delves into the recesses of the earth to uncover forgotten artifacts. Amidst the dust and weathered bones, she assembles fragments of herself.
Produced by Methinks Productions, Estrogenius Sola Voce Festival, Manhattan Theatre Source, New York and London One Act Festival, London, Ontario, 2006
Ex
Drama, Cast: 2, 10 minutes
Staged Reading, Playwrights, Cabaret, The Grand Theatre, London, Ontario, 2003
One & Other
The pressure to work and success blinds One to the needs of Other.
Drama, Cast: 2, 20 minutes
Bailiwick Repertory Directors’ Festival, Chicago, 2003
Purple Shorts One Act Festival and London One Act Festival, 2002
L’Un et L’Autre translation by Lola Tostevin
Workshop reading, University of Western Ontario, 2004
Intersection
Dramatic monologue, 50 minutes
A university student’s life is forever altered a split second after the stop light turns from red to green.
Produced by Methinks Productions, London and Vancouver Fringe Theatre Festivals, 2003
London One Act Festival and Purple Shorts Festival, London, Ontario, 2002
Mettle
Drama, Cast: 2, 25 minutes
A man retired from an organization that viciously defends "the greater good" finds himself drawn back into that darker world by a former protege.
Produced by the University of Western Ontario, 2002
Staged Reading, The Arts Project Writer’s Workshop, London, Ontario, 2002
Still
Drama, Cast: 2-3, 25 minutes
An exploration of a couple’s inner crisis at a time of loss, set against a portrait of a home and landscape. Stage adaptation of bp Nichol's prose novel STILL.
Produced by Simon, London One Act Festival, 2003
Produced by the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 2002
Director (selected credits)
One Man Romeo & Juliet by C. McCague
Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival, 2008
The Crystal Spider by Madame Rachilde, Studio Theatre, Simon Fraser University, 2006
malleus, incus, stapes by C. McCague
McManus Studio Theatre, London, Ontario, 2006, remounted for Estrogenius Festival, Manhattan Theatre Source, New York, 2006
The Queens by Normand Chaurette
Conron Hall, University of Western Ontario, 2006
Tremor by C. McCague
London Fringe Theatre Festival, 2006
Jericho in the Morning Light by C. McCague
Spriet Theatre, London, Ontario, 2005
Marcel Pursued by the Hounds by Michel Tremblay
Conron Hall, University of Western Ontario, 2005, remounted for the Canadian Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, 2005
Intersection by C. McCague
Vancouver and London Fringe Theatres Festival, 2004
