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Inspired by an unsolved case in 1920s Edmonton, Murder at the Strand is an elegant, compelling story ballet set in the energetic era of vaudeville. Meet the suspects, study their motives and solve the crime!
Two performances only! June 4 at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The June 4th evening performance includes a reception complete with light fare and silent auction.
Choreography: Francois Chevennement and Laurence...
Food is Love will be produced at King’s Shorts Festival in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, in June 2011.
Now in its fifth year, King’s Shorts Festival brings eight new plays to the stage. Food is Love is directed by Lynda Hanshaw.
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The Seed Savers will be presented at the Station Arts Centre in Rosthern, SK, from July 1 to August 1, 2010, directed by Michael Clark, stage managed by Diana Domm, set by Hans Becker, sound design by Paul Morgan Donald, lighting by Tim Cardinal and costumes by Theresa Germaine.
How are rural folk—coming out of traditions that go back generations—coping with the changes of the twenty-first century? What...
The Seed Savers
“Whoever said that farming is the foundation of all the arts is quite correct. When all is well on the farms, all is well elsewhere.”
–Xenophon in Oeconomicus, c. 370 B.C.E.
My characters, Mindy and Joe, Sky and Solo, and Tyler–family, friends and neighbors– are challenged by each other, by the wind and by new technologies. How will our inventions, ubiquitous as the wind, and...
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Katherine Koller’s farm visit yields a dramatic harvest
A glimpse of fields sprayed silver with chemicals sparked a new play about a farm couple
Marsha Lederman
Published on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009
In a pun that simply can’t be avoided, the seed for Katherine Koller’s new play was planted during a trip to a cousin’s Alberta farm, more than 10 years ago. He drove her around on...
The Seed Savers opens 31st Season!
Mindy and Joe have spent fifty years on their farm, their family and each other, but when genetically-modified canola gets into their prized crop, much more is at risk than the ancient right of farmers to sow their own seed.
Faced with losing their farm, they find themselves at odds with each other, with past choices and even their way forward. A love story about farming, forgiving...
The Seed Savers
“Whoever said that farming is the foundation of all the arts is quite correct. When all is well on the farms, all is well elsewhere.”
–Xenophon in Oeconomicus, c. 370 B.C.E.
Ten years ago, I revisited my cousin’s farm in southern Alberta, Milk River country. My cousin took me on two tours, one to see his grain and oilseed fields and another to see virgin grassland, never tilled,...
The Seed Savers takes on a watershed event in human history — the multinational push to introduce genetically modified seed into our food supply.
Mindy and Joe have invested fifty years in their family, their farm and each other, but when genetically-modified seed finds its way into their prized canola, they find much more at risk than a farmers’ ancient right to sow their own seed.
Faced with the fight...
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Katherine Koller lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and writes for radio, stage and screen. Her one-acts, including Cowboy Boots and a Corsage, have been produced at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, on CBC radio, and across the country.
Some of her full-length plays concern the pressures of science and technology on family relationships, often with the land or some element of nature playing a character part. Coal Valley: the Making of a Miner (2005) is included in The Alberta Advantage, published by Playwrights Canada Press. The Seed Savers (2009) received its premiere at Workshop West Theatre.
Katherine teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.