Will Brooks


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Will is an actor and playwright based in Saskatoon. His plays, The Captive and Hope & Fury have both been featured at SPC's Spring Festival of New Plays. Hope & Fury will be premiered at The Refinery in Saskatoon in May 2005 produced by Flux Theatre and went on to Calgary's Lunchbox Theatre. The Captive was presented as a student production at The University of Saskatchewan. Will's play, Assignment: Impossible was commissioned by Persephone Theatre and was presented as a TYA tour in 2005.

Selected plays
Assignment: Impossible
Hope & Fury
The Captive

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Assignment: Impossible
by Will Brooks

Genre: Comedy/TYA
Number of Acts: One act
Total actors required: 2 men, 2 women

Synopis:
The story in this play follows three students and a teacher. All are in the school “doghouse” for some sort of misbehavior. All four are on the brink, and all four can’t wait to go over the edge. It is because of this that the school principle has given them all the same punishment. They will create and perform a play for the school on the subject of sex education. The rules are that they can’t say anything “dirty” or “offensive.” At first they are all angry at the world and ready to give up, but as they go along, they form a strange bond through their shared task. They become a steadfast team and have more than a little fun writing, and eventually performing the show for the rest of the school. By the time all is said and done, they have learned more than a little about being a team and have a new outlook on what school/life might hold for them. In essence, they now know that they can look forward to the next day, instead of dreading it.

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Hope & Fury
by Will Brooks

Genre: Comedy
Number of Acts: One act
Total actors required: 2 women, 1 man

Synopsis:
A quirky, and sometimes dark, comedy about two estranged sisters dealing with their mother's death. Brought together again by a rather odd stipulation in their mother's will, Hope and Fury find that they have a lot of past that they have to deal with before they can deal with the piles and piles of family "heirlooms" that their mother has left them. Throw in a few dark secrets from the past, a lot of gin, a long-lost teddy bear, an ex-boyfriend, a riding lawnmower, a round of golf, and a few kumquats and you get one wild ride!

Production History:
- Public reading - Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre Spring Festival, May 2004
- Flux Theatre 2004
- Lunchbox Theatre 2004

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The Captive
by Will Brooks

Genre: Drama
Running time: 90 minutes
Total actors required: 3 men

Synopsis:
Dark, sometimes philosophical and always gut-wrenching, The Captive is the story of Stan, a man who is no one and everyone at the same time wakes up one day to find himself held captive in a cage for what seems like no reason at all. His captor, Roland uses his “lackey” Jake to send Stan on a ride of mind torture and self realization until there is little left of him. Jake follows the orders given to him by his master, his hero, his God, but at some point there is a limit.

Production History:
- Staged reading - Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre Spring Festival, 2003
- University of Saskatchewan student production 2005

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