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The Omnipotent Child
Since 1983, when Canada's best seller on rearing children in troubled times Was first issued, the omnipotent child, Dr Millar's infamous Dewey, has surfaced in Japan where they call him ochi benki and China where he is known as Little Emperor. The syndrome, has become epidemic. Of course children are not omnipotent, 'unlimited in power, ability and authority,' but the omnipotent child sounds and acts as though he were. He is a feisty, 'you're not the boss of me' kid. Though he is ten, he thinks the sun gets up when he does, follows him around all day, and goes to bed when he does. When he tells his mother now', he does not mean three minutes from now. This second edition of The Omnipotent Child has been expanded beyond remediating rampant Deweys. It seeks also to tutor Parents to deal fairly and firmly with their pre-school child and prevent the omnipotent outcome.
Don't Shoot I'm Your Mother
Ten year old Dewey, his mother Lydia and his father Frank first appeared in The Omnipotent Child where they served to illustrate the parenting problems that book went on to solve. Don't Shoot, I'm Your Mother tells the rest of that story as the mother, Lydia, struggles to do right by her Dewey, save her sanity, and hopefully her marriage. Don't Shoot is three hilarious acts of the joys and pains of Parenthood. Every parent will find something in it that is wryly familiar. And when the matenal worm finally turns, even though reading the play in bed, mothers wi1I stand up and cheer; thereby waking the baby, who wi1I then exercise his omnipotence and away we go again.
Who's Afraid of Sigmund Freud?
Poor Sigmund! Robespierre won't allow him to proceed from Limbo to Heaven until he recognizes the harm his Psychoanalytic theory has done to the world. Except he redeem himself! All he has to do is seduce one fully trained psychoanalyst from his from his Oedipal faith and lucrative practice. Visiting earth encased in busts of himself, Freud finds a young practitioner who seems vulnerable, not only to that intellectual seduction, but also to a more concrete Variety if his breathlessly appealing patient can ever get him to join her on the couch. Who's Afraid of Sigmund Freud? has been applauded by the literary community and roundly condemned by the psychoanalytic community. Then to complicate matters, it was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Medal for humor. Some say the jury on WASF is still out. The thing to do is read it and make up your own mind.
Graduation Suite
Life is a series of graduations, some reluctantly coped with, some eagerly embraced. Each graduation requires us to leave an old way of being and embrace a new. Each is an opportunity for growth, or a chance for failure. Graduation Suite consists of three one act plays, each of which deals with such a 1ife' graduation. The first of these, The Contract, concerns a UBC, live-together couple about to go through a 'common law divorce'. Maybe! If they can get their act together! The Contract, won the Jacksonville University Playwriting Prize and was toured in Florida, where it won another prize and played ,to constant laughter. Shifting Gears, the second play; tells the story of a fiftyish lady graduating from a dutiful marriage to a life of computer crime. Highland Reprise, the third play; tells it like it was being a Seaforth Cadet graduating from Kitsilano High School in that Dieppe summer of 1942. The plays have yet to be produced in Canada. Given the Present theatre scene in this true north strong and free, they probably Won't ever be.
[BCBW Autumn 1989]
Since 1983, when Canada's best seller on rearing children in troubled times Was first issued, the omnipotent child, Dr Millar's infamous Dewey, has surfaced in Japan where they call him ochi benki and China where he is known as Little Emperor. The syndrome, has become epidemic. Of course children are not omnipotent, 'unlimited in power, ability and authority,' but the omnipotent child sounds and acts as though he were. He is a feisty, 'you're not the boss of me' kid. Though he is ten, he thinks the sun gets up when he does, follows him around all day, and goes to bed when he does. When he tells his mother now', he does not mean three minutes from now. This second edition of The Omnipotent Child has been expanded beyond remediating rampant Deweys. It seeks also to tutor Parents to deal fairly and firmly with their pre-school child and prevent the omnipotent outcome.
Don't Shoot I'm Your Mother
Ten year old Dewey, his mother Lydia and his father Frank first appeared in The Omnipotent Child where they served to illustrate the parenting problems that book went on to solve. Don't Shoot, I'm Your Mother tells the rest of that story as the mother, Lydia, struggles to do right by her Dewey, save her sanity, and hopefully her marriage. Don't Shoot is three hilarious acts of the joys and pains of Parenthood. Every parent will find something in it that is wryly familiar. And when the matenal worm finally turns, even though reading the play in bed, mothers wi1I stand up and cheer; thereby waking the baby, who wi1I then exercise his omnipotence and away we go again.
Who's Afraid of Sigmund Freud?
Poor Sigmund! Robespierre won't allow him to proceed from Limbo to Heaven until he recognizes the harm his Psychoanalytic theory has done to the world. Except he redeem himself! All he has to do is seduce one fully trained psychoanalyst from his from his Oedipal faith and lucrative practice. Visiting earth encased in busts of himself, Freud finds a young practitioner who seems vulnerable, not only to that intellectual seduction, but also to a more concrete Variety if his breathlessly appealing patient can ever get him to join her on the couch. Who's Afraid of Sigmund Freud? has been applauded by the literary community and roundly condemned by the psychoanalytic community. Then to complicate matters, it was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Medal for humor. Some say the jury on WASF is still out. The thing to do is read it and make up your own mind.
Graduation Suite
Life is a series of graduations, some reluctantly coped with, some eagerly embraced. Each graduation requires us to leave an old way of being and embrace a new. Each is an opportunity for growth, or a chance for failure. Graduation Suite consists of three one act plays, each of which deals with such a 1ife' graduation. The first of these, The Contract, concerns a UBC, live-together couple about to go through a 'common law divorce'. Maybe! If they can get their act together! The Contract, won the Jacksonville University Playwriting Prize and was toured in Florida, where it won another prize and played ,to constant laughter. Shifting Gears, the second play; tells the story of a fiftyish lady graduating from a dutiful marriage to a life of computer crime. Highland Reprise, the third play; tells it like it was being a Seaforth Cadet graduating from Kitsilano High School in that Dieppe summer of 1942. The plays have yet to be produced in Canada. Given the Present theatre scene in this true north strong and free, they probably Won't ever be.
[BCBW Autumn 1989]
Submitted on June 15, 2004 in By David.
