Pam Bustin


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Pam is a playwright, actor and fiction writer based in Saskatoon. Her stage plays include Saddles in the Rain, barefoot, The Passage of Georgia O'Keeffe and Dancing with the Magpie.

Selected plays
In alphabetical order by title:

barefoot
Dancing with the Magpie
The Passage of Georgia O'Keeffe
Saddles in the Rain

To request a copy of any of these plays please contact the playwright directly by via email

To inquire about performance rights for any of these plays please contact the playwright directly via email

barefoot
by Pam Bustin

Style: Drama
Number of Acts: One act
Total actors required: 1
Women: 1

Synopsis:
One two buckle my shoe. A story of healing from child sexual abuse. Intensely honest, humorous and heartbreaking - with a mostly happy ending.

"What can I do to stop it?" asks Pam Bustin in her richly textured and revealing new work. Bustin sits within a circle of salt, a few props scattered around her and gestures, taking it all in. "This. I do this."
What she does is tell stories, fragmented bits of puzzle for some of us, rife with the sting of humour for the initiated.

What can you do to stop it? Spend an hour with Pam Bustin, and listen.
- Todd Blakesley (The Jenny Review, 2001)

Production History:
Premiered and toured 2001 - Her-icane Carolyn Festival of Women's art and Fringe Festivals in Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Edmonton.
Directed by Robert Benz
Starring: Pam Bustin

Return to list

Dancing with the Magpie
by Pam Bustin

Style: Drama
Number of Acts: One act
Total actors required: 3
Men: 1 or 2
Women: 1 or 2

Synopsis:
One night in a studio on King and Parliament - before it went upscale. Two broken humans trying to love each other and a six foot magpie who plays a mean steel guitar.

Nightmares, fairy tales and paintings slashed with an exacto-knife. Totems that come to life.

It's a love story

Production History:
Dancing with the Magpie was presented as a staged reading at the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre 1999 Spring Festival of New Plays.
Directed by Stephen Heatley
Starring Robert Benz, Beata Van Berkom and Ley Ward

Return to list

The Passage of Georgia O'Keeffe
by Pam Bustin

Style: Drama
Number of Acts: One Act
Total actors required: 1
Women: 1

Synopsis:
When she was on her deathbed, Georgia O'Keeffe sat up and shouted, "The passage of time - I must talk about the passage of time!" Bustin has gathered O'Keeffe's words - from letters, books and interviews and woven them together with the words of her critics to create a call to the artist in all of us to "Do the work - and get the work out there."

A wry look at the life of American Icon Georgia O'Keeffe:
- a woman who carved new territory
- who chose 'c' when offered 'a' or 'b'
- who desired more- from her work, from her life and from herself.

Her response to the Critics - external and internal.
Her loves, her land and her longing.

Production History:
Premiered and toured 2003 - Her-icane Ethel Festival of Women's art and Fringe Festivals in Saskatoon and London ON.
Starring: Pam Bustin

Newly developed version presented as a staged reading at the 2004 Spring Festival of New Plays.
Directed by DD Kugler
Starring Kathryn Bracht

Return to list

Saddles in the Rain
by Pam Bustin

Style: Drama
Number of Acts: Two Acts
Total actors required: 5
Men: 1
Women: 4

Synopsis:
There are things in every family that break our hearts; things that shame us; and things that make us so proud we could burst. Saddles is the story of a family that splintered into darkness and the strength of the daughters who are determined to pull themselves back into the light.

"Saddles in the Rain offers a vivid and disturbing narrative of family violence interwoven with surprising moments of compassion and comic lightness."

- Kirsty Johnston (Canadian Literature, A Quarterly of Criticism and Review 2006)

Production History:
Premiered November, 1994 at 25th Street Theatre in Saskatoon.
Directed by Beata Van Berkom
Starring: Patricia Drake, Paula Costain, Juanita Vogelgasang, Judith Hilderman and Ian Black
Soundscape by Ley Ward

Return to list

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