Category: The Birds & the Bees

The Birds & the Bees

Q&A with playwright Mark Crawford

What inspired you to write this play? Were the characters, or any aspects of the story, drawn from personal experience?  I had this crazy idea to write a sex comedy, but I knew I wanted…

Source: Arts Club Theatre Company
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The Birds & the Bees

Synopsis & Character List

SYNOPSIS (CONTAINS SPOILERS!) ACT ONE In the upstairs bedroom of a rural Canadian farmhouse, Sarah, 38, awkwardly chats with her mother, Gail, 62, a divorced beekeeper, while unpacking suitcases and inflating an air mattress. Sarah…

Source: Arts Club Theatre Company
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The Birds & the Bees

Interview with playwright Mark Crawford

Mark Crawford finds life on the farm an ideal apprenticeship for success as a side-splitting Canadian playwright.

Source: Country Guide
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Ashlie Corcoran on directing the show

Ashlie directed The Birds & the Bees as part of her final season as Artistic Director at the Thousand Islands Playhouse and talks about the show in this interview with The Morning Show CKWS.

Source: YouTube
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The bees in decline

Since the late 1990s, beekeepers around the world have observed the mysterious and sudden disappearance of bees, and report unusually high rates of decline in honeybee colonies.

Source: Greenpeace
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