Issue 3 • Fall 2002 • Featured Writer • Drama

Horse Latitudes

Nicola Harwood

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Characters & Setting

CHARACTERS

Lily
Female. First Nations. 36 years.

Alice Campbell
An explorer. A ghost. White. circa 1908.

Martha
An archeologist. White. 35 years.

Hanna
Female. White. Martha's daughter. 14 years.

Frances
Female. First Nations. Lily's daughter. A boy-girl. 14 years.

RCMP
A white police officer.

SETTING

The Central Interior of British Columbia, 1970.

STAGING

The play needs to have defined areas that are transformative, have the ability to be isolated with light and indicate different locations. Simple boxes can indicate a car. The only specific set piece required is a rickety roost above stage left for Lily. Her roost is her home, her ground -- even though it's in the air -- and she never leaves it until the final moments of the play.

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Nicola Harwood is a writer and educator whose work has been produced and published in Canada and the United States. Horse Latitudes was first produced in workshop through the Alchemy Program at Jon Sims Center for the Arts in San Francisco and was directed by Tracy Ward.

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