Chelsea Woolley

“Why shouldn’t a dream be just as much a truth? A fantasy be just as deep a reality?”
After twenty-five years estranged, Cecelia and her father, Jules, are attempting reconciliation. Unable to communicate past shames and shortcomings, the pair become dependent on increasingly dramatic fairy tales to explain away their pain.

Paint Me this House of Love is a rhythmic, yearning, experimentation of language, exploring the threads that stitch together our shared family narratives, and asks how we communicate, “I Love You”, when the words alone are not enough.

Aya, the lady adventurer, (not a princess because princesses are stuck up), just wants to go home. She is a refugee and that means she is not from here. She’s tired of Canada, and wants to go back to her great and magical valley, far, far away. Only problem is, her dad won’t answer her phone calls, she’s broke, and the lonely boy she’s found to be her side-kick, doesn’t want to help. A timely show for young people about fear, bullies, war, and the mountain we must climb together, as one, to find peace.

Puritan butcher, Robert Goodman, has firm command of his righteous and God-fearing family. A mad wife, a violent brother, and a past of carnal temptations however, threaten the pillars of his kingdom. An investigation into the silencing of women as crazy, when they fail to subscribe to what institutions demand as normalcy, "These Peaceable Kingdoms" focuses on the unrelenting pressures of ‘the way things have always been’, in turning the lively into the lunatic, and the victim into the villain.

After the collapse of her business, Deanna and her seventeen year old daughter Esther, are forced to return to Deanna’s rural childhood home. During this town’s Annual Pumpkin and Squash Fest, a travelling freak show performer is accused of murdering the mayor’s son. He invites us, as town audience, to question what it truly means to be a freak. Through the incorporation of buffoon, clown, and circus theatrics, The Exhibition of Extraordinary Oddities and Living Freaks explores the reality of being an outsider and how universal this may be. Is it human nature to mistrust those who are other? What is the risk of revealing your oddities, and what is at stake, what festers within you, if it is never allowed to show?

Jacob and Monica are meeting for dinner. They will have a great time. They’re both wonderful. They’re fine. Fantastic. The Only Good Boy explores how we bury and live with our most dangerous secrets. It asks us to recognize our uglies after years hidden under the rock. The play experiments with the use of separate, and sometimes surrealist realities, times and spaces. Jacob and Monica are meeting for dinner. They’re both terrified.