Play: All the Light-Hearted Souls
All the Light-Hearted Souls
by Marilyn Anne Campbell
Stage play: Drama, 10 minute, 2M
"I never tried to help people. I never tried to make the world better. I just sat around making bad jokes and using up the air."
After an unfortunate encounter with some woodworking machinery, Alex finds himself on the threshold between life and death, challenged to justify his detached and carefree ways.
Production History
Premiere: nigh, 8-0-8 Productions, 2005
All the Light-Hearted Souls was produced during November 2005 at the Birds and Stone Theatre in Calgary, Alberta by 8-0-8 Productions as part of the collaborative show, nigh.
Directed by Meg Wilkie
Featuring:
Jed Tomlinson as the Gatekeeper
Ted Lach as Alex
Behind the Scenes
- This piece was written especially for 8-0-8 Productions first collaborative show, nigh. Six scenes by six different writers were selected, each depicting an encounter between the recently deceased and a Gatekeeper standing guard over the other side.
- This was my first production outside of school, so I eagerly made the trip from Toronto to Calgary to see it performed (even though it was only ten minutes long). Members of the company graciously put me up, and the experience started a long trend of spending more money to travel to see my plays then I was making in royalties.
