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Constable Margaret Chance: I got a prediction tits are gonna get bigger in the next generation. Cause of the global warming. The worlds getting hotter and hotter, so, theres like no rain for months and months - nothing grows. So people start living off breast milk again, like they did in Biblical times. It makes perfect sense. In twenty years, tits will be like commodities, traded on the stinking stock exchange. Like gold. Ogres, trolls, demons - monsters, like violence, are always represented as male. Not this time. Celebrated playwright R.M. Vaughan gives us, in three one-act monologues, three very monstrous women. In A Visitation by St Teresa of Avila upon Constable Margaret Chance, we meet a middle-aged police officer whose world view is determined by her obsession with race, bloodlines and genetic determinism. The Susan Smith Tapes (made into a film for CBC and Showcase by Jeremy Podeswa) shows the famous American who drowned her two young sons trying to recapture the publics attention by auditioning for talk shows. And Dead Teenagers introduces us to a frustrated reverend unhealthily addicted to the spectacle of large funerals for murdered children.
About the author
RM Vaughan is a Toronto-based writer, playwright and video artist originally from New Brunswick. His many books include the poetry collections A Selection of Dazzling Scarves and Invisible to Predators, the novel A Quilted Heart, the plays Camera, Woman, The Monster Trilogy and the novel Spells (ECW). Vaughan was the 1994-95 Playwright in Residence at Buddies in Bad Times, and he writes about art and culture for a wide range of publications. His writing can be seen in a regular column for The National Post
Summary
Features three one-act monologues, with three very monstrous women. This title includes: "A Visitation by St Teresa of Avila upon Constable Margaret Chance", "The Susan Smith Tapes", and "Dead Teenagers".
