Four strangers on a train wander inside and outside of each other's consciousness, all suffering from the same condition: love.
Road
Written by Camille Intson
Photo by Greg King
Road was first workshopped and staged at the Grand Theatre's annual Playwrights' Cabaret in London, Ontario on January 21st, 2017, with the following cast and creative team:
The Man in the Pastel Shirt Jim Doucette
The Girl Reading Hamlet Rachel Jones
The Boy Smiling out the Window Tyler Parr
The Woman in the Hat with Luggage Martha Zimmerman
Road officially premiered in the summer of 2017 at About Love: A Festival of Short Plays in the Havana Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia, directed by Samuel Davey Calderon from June 13-18, and at the Newmarket National Ten-Minute Play Festival in Pickering College Theatre, directed by Sean O'Brien in the Bare/Bones Pod from July 27-29, where it won First Place in the NNPF National Playwriting Competition. The festival casts were as follows:
About Love: A Festival of Short Plays
The Man in the Pastel Shirt Gavi Beigel
The Girl Reading Hamlet Danisa Rambling
The Boy Smiling out the Window Zack Currie
The Woman in the Hat with Luggage Angie Ip
Newmarket National Ten-Minute Play Festival
The Man in the Pastel Shirt Chadwick Allen
The Girl Reading Hamlet Marina Gomes
The Boy Smiling out the Window Jackson Fowlow
The Woman in the Hat with Luggage Bridget Bezanson