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Dale Lakevold
Biography:Dale Lakevold lives in Minnedosa, Manitoba. His work has been produced primarily in Manitoba including the North. He was a finalist for the John Hirsch Award in 1999. His play Misty Lake, written with Darrell Racine, was published by Adler & Ringe in 2001 and by Kingfisher in the anthology Voice of the Drum in 2000. His play Track Records won the Du Maurier National Playwriting Competition for One-Act Play in 1996. He has been a member of the Manitoba Association of Playwrights since 1993 and is a new member of the Playwrights' Union of Canada.
Published Work:
Misty Lake, Adler & Ringe, 2001, and in Voice of the Drum,
Kingfisher, 2000.
Track Records, International Readers Theatre, 1996.
"Notes for a Future Talk on (Canadian) Flagmaking," in Under the
Prairie Sky, Canada Games Society, 1997.
Awards:
Du Maurier Playwriting Challenge. 2nd. Winnipeg, 2000.
John Hirsch Award. Finalist. Winnipeg, 1999.
Du Maurier National Playwriting Competition Award for One-Act
Play. Vancouver, 1996.
Stretching Hide written with Darrell Racine
A young woman from the city arrives at a Metis community in
Saskatchewan on a weekend when the game wardens show up to
find a poacher. A play about sacrifice.
Two Acts; Comedy/Drama w. music; 4 m, 3 f
Produced by ScriptLab in Toronto at Off the Page, April 14, 2002.
Roman Fever
Two women visit Rome and recall the events of a visit there twenty
years before. Adapted from the Edith Wharton short story "Roman
Fever."
One Act; Drama; 2 f
Produced in 2001for Brief New Works by Alberta Theatre Projects.
An American man proposes marriage to a young American woman living in Paris. He must first mediate her divorce. Adapted from Edith Wharton's novella "Madame de Treymes."
One act; Drama; 1 m, 2 f
Produced in 2001 by Root Sky in Brandon and by Theatre Undercurrents in Saskatoon.
Misty Lake written with Darrell Racine.
A Metis journalist interviews a Northern Manitoba Dene woman
about her life. A story about suffering and healing.
One Act; Drama/Comedy w. music; 2 f, l m
Produced in 1999 by Root Sky Productions in Winnipeg and in
2001 at the Crazy Horse Aboriginal Theatre Festival in Calgary.
Notes Toward a Speech Re: My Ex
After his marriage breaks down, a man rehearses the speech he will
deliver to his ex-wife. A study of parody and narrative form.
One act; Comedy; l m
Produced in 2001 in Winnipeg by Theatre Excavations.
L-Love's Body
A night of lurid adventure in Brandon, Manitoba. A play about the body.
One Act, Comic monologue; l m
Produced in 2000 by Theatre Projects Manitoba.
Cross Creek
The elite of early Brandon society gathers on a country estate in
1899 to celebrate a couple's first anniversary. In the style of Chekhov.
One Act; Comedy; 6 f, 5 m
Produced in 2000 by the University of Winnipeg.
Wild Geese
A young woman arrives at an isolated farm community to take her
first teaching position. An expressionist rendering of Martha
Ostenso's 1925 novel Wild Geese.
Two Acts; Romance/drama w. music; 6 f, 4 m
Produced in 1999 by the University of Winnipeg.
Making L-Love's Body
A Brandon bookshop owner and a Winnipeg actor who has been
cut loose from a production of the play L-Love's Body come to
blows in the bookshop owner's garage one night. A work in
metatheatre.
Two-One Acts; Comedy/drama; 2 m
Produced in a garage in 1999 by Brandon University.
Never Never Mind, Kurt Kurt Cobain
A punk version of Kurt Cobain's life in dream, memory, and music.
Two Acts, Drama w. music; l f, 2 m
Produced in 1998 by Theatre Projects Manitoba.
The portrayal of a Canadian Olympic sprinter's destructive relationship with his trainer. An expressionist play about fame, athletics, and the body. Winner of the 1996 Du Maurier National Playwriting Competition for One-Act Play.
One Act; Drama; 2 m
The Blue Egg It is the evening of Canada's first national general
strike, and four young political ideologues are meeting in a studio
that overlooks the strike scene. The strike intensifies into violence
as the four characters debate the merits of revolution and ultimately
expose their own private lives. Meanwhile, the Blue Egg - a New
Age sensory deprivation tank - bubbles in the background.
Full-length; Drama; 2 f, 2 m
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