David Sealy

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David is a playwright, poet, and fiction writer. His dramatic monolog, I Married a Dishrag (a precursor to his one-act play, Runaway Barbies) was a winner in the 2002 Short Grain Contest. Several of his 15 minute plays have been performed at the Globe Theatre's On the Line Cabaret and North Battleford's On the Rivers Edge Festival. Other work has been published in literary journals and anthologies.

Selected plays
In alphabetical order by title:

Life's Like That
Runaway Barbies

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Life's Like That
by David Sealy

Style: Comedy
Number of Acts: One act
Length: 50 mins
Total actors required: 2
Women: 2

Synopsis:
An empty hospital emergency room in the middle of the night. The only people around are two old friends with fences to mend. Only one will leave alive.

Production History:
Staged reading, Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre Spring Festival of New Plays, 2000.

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Runaway Barbies
by David Sealy

Style: Comedy
Number of Acts: One Act
Length: 50 mins
Total actors required: 2
Women: 2

Synopsis:
Don’t be too eager to roll up the sidewalks — even if it is 1 am in Swift Current, Sask. Two very different women are all dolled up with someplace to go. DD’s skipping town on her lapdog husband; and the teenager next door, Jocinda, is Greyhounding it to Calgary, hot to see her boyfriend. When DD finds Jocinda holed up in her backyard gazebo, the two not-so-fast friends come to some life-altering revelations in the wee hours. But then the sun rises...

Production History: Two staged readings at the Petro-Canada Stage One one-act play development series, Lunchbox Theatre, Calgary, 2003.

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