Lying Fallow & Permanent Things

These two plays by Joe Doran offer powerful, unsettling theatre experiences. LYING FALLOW tells the tale of Jack Willow, a violent felon trying to work a farm with his pregnant wife in the spring of 1975. When Jack’s unbalanced cousin shows up, things quickly spin out of control... Doran has constructed eerily familiar characters and sent them careening to an almost inexplicable climax. Is it just a perverse joyride, or a surprisingly sober meditation on an entire theatrical form? PERMANENT THINGS When the daughter of a movie icon goes backstage to meet an actor, a promising script by a blackballed playwright acts as the catalyst in a test of wills. Doran raises a series of questions about the motivations of artists and the limits of their creations… Joe Doran’s plays have been performed by theatre groups around the world. His works have aired on Western Public Radio, and have been featured at the TheatreBC Festival in Canada.