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    Janet Wilson Meets the Queen
    Janet Wilson Meets the Queen
    Janet Wilson Meets the Queen
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    Janet Wilson Meets the Queen

    By Beverley Cooper

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    Janet Wilson Meets the Queen begins in Vancouver, 1969, as society is undergoing profound change. Janet, a woman who places great faith in the British monarchy and its traditions, is valiantly trying to hold together her dysfunctional family: her teenaged daughter, Lilibet; her aging mother, "Granny", and her husband, Jim. When Janet’s nephew from San Francisco arrives on her doorstep looking for refuge from the Vietnam War draft, the family grapples with what to do. While the people she cares for are irrevocably affected by the changing political landscape, Janet Wilson struggles for equilibrium, attempting to hold on to a world that refuses to stay still.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScirocco Drama
    Release dateJul 21, 2022
    ISBN9781990737398
    Janet Wilson Meets the Queen
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    Beverley Cooper

    Beverley Cooper is a writer, teacher, and actor. Her plays include: Clue in the Fast Lane (with Ann-Marie MacDonald); Thin Ice (with Banuta Rubess, Chalmers/Dora Award); The Eyes of Heaven; The Woman in White (from the novel by Wilkie Collins); The Lonely Diner: Al Capone in Euphemia Township; Janet Wilson Meets the Queen (nominated for Prix Rideau Award), If Truth Be Told and The Other: A Strange Christmas Tale. Innocence Lost: A Play about Steven Truscott was a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award and was on the Globe and Mail bestsellers list, a first for a Canadian playwright. She has also written for television, film, and extensively for CBC Radio Drama. Beverley is the coordinator of PGC’s The CASA Project, which aims to support women playwrights living in South Africa.

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      Janet Wilson Meets the Queen - Beverley Cooper

      Cover: Janet Wilson meets the queen by Beverley Cooper, published under Scirocco Drama, by J. Gordon Shillingford, shows a woman holding a bouquet of roses in one hand and a vase in the other, as she stands before a dining table lined with cutlery. A sketch of an astronaut's headgear is seen around her head.

      Janet Wilson

      Meets the Queen

      Beverley Cooper

      Janet Wilson Meets the Queen

      first published 2018 by Scirocco Drama

      An imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc.

      © 2018 Beverley Cooper

      Scirocco Drama Editor: Glenda MacFarlane

      Cover design by Terry Gallagher/Doowah Design

      Author photo by Corrine Koslo

      Lyrics from:

      I Am Woman

      Words and Music by Ray Burton and Helen Reddy

      Quoted by permission of (c) Universal Music Publishing Canada on behalf of

      Buggerlugs Music Co., Irving Music, Inc.

      Printed and bound in Canada on 100% post-consumer recycled paper.

      We acknowledge the financial support of the Manitoba Arts Council and

      The Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, for any reason, by any means, without the permission of the publisher. This play is fully protected under the copyright laws of Canada and all other countries of the Copyright Union and is subject to royalty. Changes to the text are expressly forbidden without written consent of the author. Rights to produce, film, record in whole or in part, in any medium or in any language, by any group, amateur or professional, are retained by the author.

      For production rights contact:

      Suzanne DePoe

      CTI Artist Management

      483 Euclid Ave.

      Toronto, Ontario.

      M6G 2T1

      416-944-0475

      suzanne@ctiam.ca

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Cooper, Beverley, author

      Janet Wilson meets the Queen / Beverley Cooper. -- First edition.

      A play.

      ISBN 978-1-927922-44-6 (softcover)

      I. Title.

      PS8555.O5884J36 2018C812'.54C2018-904636-8

      J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing

      P.O. Box 86, RPO Corydon Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada R3M 3S3

      To the man I love, one of the good ones, John Jarvis

      A black and white photograph of the author Beverley Cooper. She is seen smiling as she peeps out of the wooden door of a house.

      Beverley Cooper

      Beverley Cooper is a writer, actor, and teacher. She has written for TV, film, and extensively for CBC radio drama, twice being nominated for Writers’ Guild of Canada Awards. Her plays have been produced across Canada, including Clue in the Fast Lane (co-written with Ann-Marie MacDonald); Thin Ice (co-written with Banuta Rubess, Chalmers/Dora Award); The Eyes of Heaven; The Woman in White (adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins); The Lonely Diner: Al Capone in Euphemia Township; Janet Wilson Meets the Queen (nominated for Prix Rideau Award) and, most recently, If Truth Be Told. Innocence Lost: A Play about Steven Truscott was a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award and was on the Globe and Mail Bestsellers List, a first for a Canadian playwright.

      Beverley trained as an actor and has performed in TV, film and in theatres across Canada. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and has presented her work at WPI conferences in India, Stockholm, and Cape Town. She recently began directing audio books for Penguin Random House.

      Beverley is the coordinator of The CASA Project, a charitable arm of the Playwrights Guild of Canada Women’s Caucus, which aims to support women playwrights living in South Africa.

      For more information about Beverley’s work, visit: www.BeverleyCooper.com

      Playwright’s Notes

      Janet Wilson Meets the Queen arose from a desire to write a play about political apathy. Why is it so difficult for us to look at what is going on in the world? Why are some people engaged in politics, trying to change things for the better, fighting for social justice…while others are unable to? Janet Wilson Meets the Queen is set during the years 1969 through 1971, a time of huge political and social upheaval: women’s rights, Black rights, the Vietnam war, rise of the FLQ… The world was changing quickly and drastically. It was also the time of my own political awakening and the beginning of my personal battle against an inclination to stare at something bright and shiny, rather than looking at the dark and difficult side of life. I am very fond of Janet Wilson and hope she will make you laugh, reflect, and engage.

      I began writing Janet Wilson while I was getting my MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. I was in a class led by the remarkable playwright Judith Thompson, who poked and prodded me to let the writing flow. The writing continued under a mentorship with the esteemed Smith College teacher Len Berkman. I still treasure his enthusiastic, insightful and encouraging emails. The (late) dramaturge extraordinaire Iris Turcott dissected subsequent drafts and provoked me into writing a much better play. Many thanks goes to those three individuals, as well as my fellow MFA-ers (particularly Robert Chafe, Eufemia Fantetti and Naoko Kumagai); Diana Belshaw and the acting students at Humber College; Nina Lee Aquino and Factory Theatre, who hosted a workshop with actors Sarah Dodd, Vivien Endicott-Douglas, Patricia Hamilton, and Noah Reid. Financial support happily arrived from the Ontario Arts Council and via The Canadian Federation of University Women’s Dr. Alice E. Wilson Award. And finally, thank you Eric, Andrea, and the remarkable GCTC team who threw their hearts and souls into the first, shining production.

      We would rather be ruined than changed;

      We would rather die in our

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