Plays
My plays are comedies, set in rural Saskatchewan. Dry Streak has been staged by nore than 50 amateur theatres across the Canadian prairies, as well as professional stages in Saskatoon, Regina, & Rosthern, Saskatchewan; London, Ontario; and Billings, Montana. Homecoming has also been staged professionally & by many community theatres.
If you think these plays might be right for you, buy the book straight from Scirocco Drama (links below), or email me for a pdf. (I’ve made some cuts/updates to both of these plays – you can see that in the pdf.) Email me at leeann.sask@gmail.com.
Dry Streak
During the hot summer drought of 1988, a new girl on the prairie vows that if the rain would just come, she’d run naked through the streets of town. As the drought drags on, the promise takes on a life of its own, stirring up gossip, hope, and chaos in a community already stretched to its limits. 90 minutes, 3 women/4 men
Homecoming
Retiring and moving to town sounds simple enough—until Jerry Wilson actually tries to leave the farm behind. A rural comedy involving crutches, cooking, and a town celebration. 90 minutes, 3 women/2 men
Bloom
Bloom premiered at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, and has since been produced in Saskatchewan. It’s a short one-act play. Feel free to download a copy, to see if it might be right for you.
When Alice Ridgeway, recently widowed Co-Chair of the Stony Valley Communities in Bloom Committee, takes a walk at her late husband’s farm, she;s horrified to find a marijuana grow-op in the old barn. Whose plants are they? And they sure could use some fertilizer. 50 minutes, 2 women
Fiction: Hanson Acres
from 2018 to 2023 I wrote a fiction serial in (what used to be) Country Guide Magazine. I told the ongoing story of the Hanson family — a farm family in southeast Saskatchewan made up of Jeff & his wife Elaine and their children, Jeff’s parents Dale & Donna, and (until he had a stroke mid-way through the serial), Jeff’s Grandpa Ed.
- It’s the last mile that really counts All kinds of distances have to be travelled when Trina decides to tie the knot Traveling for the Wedding
- This is the time to say your piece The Hansons knew the day had to come. Somehow, the family pulls together Ed’s Funeral (Part 1)
- This moment links us all Each Hanson finds their own way to say what needs to be said Ed’s Funeral (Part 2)
You CAN read the rest online, but it won’t be easy. Start here, and scroll past the stories that aren’t Hanson Acres: https://www.country-guide.ca/contributor/leeann-minogue/.
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