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In 2003, Burning Passions Theatre launched its new work development program.  Watch for upcoming productions of the following works-in-progress:

The Crush of Beauty by Laurel Smith

In development by Laurel Smith is the crush of beauty. Developed through David Copelin's Practical Playwriting course and in collaboration with director and dramaturge Alexandra Seay, it is a story about the meeting of two highly unlikely companions, a disillusioned young teenage girl and a resigned, world-weary old woman. the crush of beauty received a staged reading as part of the 2006 Summerworks Festival. The workshop was directed by Stewart Arnott, and featured Aida Jordao as the Old Woman and Athena Lamarre as the Young Woman. The play premiered in August 2009 at the SummerWorks Theatre Festival in Toronto.

The Body Politic by Sarah Casselman

In July of 2007, the company held a workshop of Body Politic by Sarah Casselman, directed by Alexandra Seay, with sound design by Nilan Perera. The play depicts a young woman's struggle to maintain her sense of self in the face of a series of debilitating but unnameable and therefore untreatable illnesses. 

The Reluctant Dragon by Laurel Smith

In 2002, playwright Laurel Smith began work on a new adaptation of a Kenneth Grahame (author of The Wind in the Willows) story, The Reluctant Dragon. Laurel received an OAC Writers Creative Reserve Grant from Carousel Players to develop the piece, which subsequently received a reading and workshop through Carousel Players in 2004/05, and a staged reading through Burning Passions Theatre in 2006. The story centres on a Dragon who refuses to fight, and a Boy who befriends him and learns the meaning of compassion towards the stranger in our midst. The company is planning a school tour for grades 5 to 8 throughout the GTA and northern Ontario.

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