We have posted the guidelines for our 6th InspiraTO Playwriting Contest . Write a ten-minute play. Listed below are the plays we produced at our last festival. 

The 5th Annual InspiraTO Festival   June 3 - 13, 2010   Alumnae Theatre, Mainstage, Toronto 

SYNOPSIS OF EACH PLAY

blueTouch Plays: Thur. June 3, 8 pm; Sat. June 5, 8 pm; Fri. June 11, 8 pm; Sat June 12, 4:30 & 10:30 pm.   Mysterious and intriguing.   8 ten-minute plays in one show:  

POKE by Angela Froese. Have you been poked yet? Why not? Start with the stranger next to you.   Directed by Miranda Laurence. Cast:  Bruce Williamson, Farah Farah.

A MAP OF SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW by Adam Cowart.  A movement-based play that delves into themes of fate, connection and loss.   Directed by Dan Daley. Cast:  Vanessa Quagliara, Jesse Watts.

BUNGALOW by Vern Thiessen.  A son remembers the past and is brought closer to his father. A memory play about growing up.   Directed by Dominik Loncar. Cast: Thomas Daly, Bryan Jones.

CLOSE ENOUGH by Matthew Haldeman.  Jack attempts to convince Jill that the cosmic pull and his interest in e. e. cummings has brought them together. Or was that A. A. Milne?  Close enough.   Directed by Andreja Kovac. Cast: Daniel Clark, Christina Lazarou.

THE BODY ELECTRIC by Dominik Loncar.  Stephanie celebrates her body.  Marco's ill at ease reaches a breaking point. Can his hero-worship of Canadian World War One aces save him?    Directed by Mirelle Blassnig. Cast: Tracey Beltrano, Jason Siks. 

PUSH by Adam Bradley.   One machine. Two scientists on a verge of a breakthrough. If only they can remember what button to push.     Directed by Tommy Taylor. Cast: Sedina Fiati, Michael McLeister. 

A SIMPLE SNOW by Elaine Romero.  When Alice lands in a snowy place with a stranger, she realizes that she is captive in an eerie world.    Directed by Megan Watson. Cast:  Kaitlyn Riordan, Thom Stoneman.

BAGS OF BONES by John Weagly. Daisey and Edith tackle the question of who, or what, is in control of their bodies.       Directed by Meg Gennings. Cast: Melanie Hrymak, Laura Alderson. 

red Touch plays: Fri. June 4, 8 pm; Sat. June 5, 10:30 pm; Thurs. June 10, 8 pm; Sat June 12, 2 pm & 8 pm.  Passionate and expressive.  8 ten-minute plays in one show:

TWICE AS BRIGHT by Daniel Heath.  A woman decides to fall in love with the next attractive guy she meets. For ten-minutes.   Directed by Erin O'Hanley. Cast: Emily Stang, Jake Rathgeber.

STAY by Crystal Woods.  A man is asked to reach out and touch. If only his wife would let him.  Directed by Adrian Parks. Cast: Valarie McKee, Tino Wilson.

A TOUCH OF BEAUTY by Ann Snead.   Western romanticism and Eastern reality collide in this story about beauty and dying.   Directed by Brad Loghrin. Cast: Patricia Garnett-Smith, Omar Sheikh.

STUPID, AND TERRIBLE by Shannon Murdoch.  In a nondescript house, three women isolated by their grief, rediscover their relationship to a soldier killed in war.   Directed by Adam Bradley. Cast: Kim Persona, Stephanie Ros, Ese Atawo.

MISTER BAXTER by Kate Fenton.  On a subway platform a chance encounter between a troubled man and a young boy takes a strange turn.   Directed by Adam Seybold. Cast: Stephanie Seaton, Jeffrey Simlett, Justin Darmanin, Riley Gilchrist.

LEDGE by William Borden.  Mary could jump and end it all if Tom, who also wants to jump, would get out of her way.     Directed by Viktorija Kovac. Cast: Cary West, Ashlie White.

THIN AIR by Tom Coash.  Set high on the platform of a circus tightrope, a young woman is ready to perform after a set of tragic circumstances.   Directed by  A.J. Richardson. Cast: Lisa Rivers.

THE KISS by Mark Harvey Levine. Dennis wants to know if he's a good kisser.  So he has to kiss his friend Allison.  A lot.    Directed by Daniela Mazic. Cast: Blair Kay, Daniel Ostropolec.

PRODUCTION TEAM:

Dominik Loncar, Artistic Director & Producer; Lumir Hladik, Associate Director & Set Designer; Bryan Batty, Lighting Designer; Lynda Yearwood, Production Stage Manager; Karen Elizabeth McMichael, Assistant Stage Manager;  David Ing, Lighting Technician & Assistant Lighting Designer; Mimi Osvath, Sound Technician; Tiffany & Alanah, Backstage Assistants and Make Up; Sylvana LaSelva, Front of House Manager; Music by Volcano Playground.