PLAYS
Stephen's award winning plays have been produced throughout the US, Canada, and the UK. They include the Star Wars coming-of-age plays The Boy's Own Jedi Handbook, The Girls Strike Back, and The Return of the Jedi Handbook. He is also the author of A Farewell to Kings, Looking After Eden, Pervert, and The Emperor of Atlantis.
Mary's Wedding
ISBN 13 9780887548994
When Mary and Charlie, filled with the passion, vulnerability, and impulsiveness of youth, unexpectedly find one another sheltering in a barn during a thunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and Mary and Charlie must surrender their love and fate to the uncertainties of their tumultuous times. A play with a heart as big as the land that serves as its backdrop, Mary’s Wedding is a wonderfully tender, poignant story of innocent first love and the vicissitudes of fate.
Winner, 2000 Alberta Playwriting Competition
Winner, 2002 Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play
Winner, 2003 Writer’s Guild of Alberta Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Best Play
The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion
ISBN 13 9780887544996
Suffering the aftermath of the war and foreseeing the dawning of new ones, the Oxford Roof Climbers, the Benevolent Order of, lay siege to a sleepy university town. A stand against stands, a dare to end all daring, a doing that protests doings; the two haunted men—armed with a talent for practical jokes—grasp at love and dare to imagine a new world. The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion, despite its harmless beginnings, brings the Arab Revolt dangerously close to the heart of the Empire.
Winner, 2007 Canadian Authors Association Carol Bolt Award
Winner, 2008 Writer’s Guild of Alberta Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Best Play
The Clockmaker
ISBN 13 9780887548437
“WHO ARE YOU?” Monsieur Pierre (the immigration official) poses his usual question, but Heinrich’s unusual answer sets in motion a metaphysical rollercoaster. Why would a simple statement of name and profession bring so much attention to an unassuming clockmaker? Maybe because that’s two more things than anyone else in this place remembers…? Soon, Heinrich is reminding his new friend Frieda of memories she’s forgotten and even summoning up a few of his own—of forbidden love, and crimes he may or may not have committed. Is it possible to be guilty of being about to commit a crime, as Monsieur Pierre suspects? And why wouldn’t one recall something so significant as premeditating murder? Armed with a newfound-yet-familiar love for each other, Heinrich and Frieda set about solving this Kafkaesque puzzle.
Winner, 2009 Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play
Best Canadian Play, 2010-2011 season, Toronto Theatre Critics' Awards