Manitoba Association of Playwrights Index -- News -- Members -- Catalogue -- ellipsis... Links Deborah O'Neil Biography: Deborah O'Neil is an inner-city teacher in Winnipeg. Plays: Nobody Waltzes Carrying a 30 lb. Underwood Second-hand office equipment. Second-hand lives. Or second chances at finding first real love. 2 characters: Billie, 40's, owner of used office-equipment store Marg, 40's, a dissatisfied customer Running time: 15 minutes Comedy Instant Applause - 26 very short complete plays, Blizzard Publishing, Winnipeg, 1994 Fill in the Blanks The newlyweds are called in to explain their medical claim for micro-surgical vasectomy reversal. 3 characters: Larry, 50's, newlywed Wanda, 27, newlywed Mr. Jacobs, 40, medical claims adjuster Running time: 15 minutes Comedy Virgins Don't Eavesdrop Leon is called upon to do more than extinguish the candles on his belated birthday cake when he chances to meet Hughie in a public washroom late at night. Janis Joplin, Mama Cass Elliot and the Virgin Mother are invited guests. 2 characters: Hughie, 47, an aging hippie Leon, 44, a successful realtor Running time - 60 minutes Drama
	Worm Moon 3 female characters: Abacus, 20, the fisher Hannah, 30ish, headwasher/boxbuilder Boniface, 40ish, designated Mother/seamstress "A grim but intriguing situation in the future . . . the playwright has crafted a story of vaulting imagination rooted to bedrock emotions." "O'Neil virtually creates a new world in this play, yet the emotions and conflicts are resolutely based in the old one." Running time: 90 minutes Drama A Map of the Senses - Twenty Years of Manitoba Plays, Scirocco Drama, J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc., 2000
	#1 Gem When Eva works on getting Theo to re-evaluate his lifestyle by challenging him to a playful yet risk taking game of raiding the gardens of his pharmacy customers, she ends up getting more produce than she bargained. 2 characters: Eva, 50ish, wife of drug store owner Theo, 50's, druggist Running time: 90 minutes Comedy Bivouac When a pothole, cum sinkhole, threatens their street, the residents of an inner-city neighborhood find themselves coming together in strength (and with barricades) to defend a territory and a reputation they never thought they would. 4 female characters: ice cream bicycle vendor, teenage girl Fatima, 60's, Portuguese resident of street Salome, 30, First Nations resident of street Sherry/Sheryl/Sharon - 30, newspaper reporter/ camera hound Running time: 90 minutes Drama