Trina Davies

Alexander Graham Bell connected people around the world by inventing the telephone. But it was of little use to his wife, Mabel, who was deaf. Written from Mabel’s point of view, the story begins in Nova Scotia as Mabel reflects back on her life with Bell. Together they inspired and challenged each other to become strong, original forces for good. A beautiful (and true) love story about how we communicate.

Published by Playwrights Canada Press Fall 2020

"Silence is a welcome addition to the catalogue of Canadian theatre…a lovely portrait of a unique relationship and a delightfully entertaining, interesting and challenging show I expect to see staged across this country and beyond” London Free Press

“A flawless interpretation of Mabel’s mind…You are within it, listening, watching, and feeling the vibrations of sound waves around you.” Stratford Festival Reviews

“While Londoners are lucky to see it first, Silence is such a beautiful, thoughtful play that one hopes it will go on to further productions across the country and beyond.” Stage Door

The perfect man. The perfect romance. Karin Maynard is on vacation when she meets the handsome and attentive Markus Richter. But back home in Cold War Germany, things are not so simple. If emotion can be manufactured, how do you ever really know if you are loved?

Based on a real program in East Germany in which West German secretaries were targeted and psychologically profiled to determine their ‘perfect man’. The Stasi identified the man who looked right, who could be coached, and that man was sent to develop a long-term relationship with the target.

Half romantic comedy and half spy-thriller, The Romeo Initiative is a journey into the heart that leaves audiences gasping.

The Romeo Initiative was a finalist for Canada's top dramatic literary prize the Governor General's Award for Drama, and won the National Enbridge Award for Established Artist in 2008.

Parker hates zoos. He’s on the hunt for something wild and dangerous…and he just might find it.

Linda is pleased that they have chosen to downsize and move into a more compressed urban lifestyle. That is, until the new neighbor moves in. John misses his stuff and his ride-on lawn mower. While Linda puts together her potential court case outlining the litany of annoyances the foreign neighbor has subjected her to, John tries to ignore the whole thing. He is finally drawn in when the neighbor approaches the door, leaving them a mysterious package.

As we live physically closer but with greater individual and cultural differences, how can we find the space that we need to live together?

Sandra understands. He’s not a bad guy, he just ‘snapped’, the bad stuff oozed out like a pizza pop that’s too hot. A Love Story looks at serial killer groupies and what a woman will do for love.

A charismatic ‘Leader’ raises goats that he names after foreign dignitaries as he hides from an international war crimes tribunal. He is especially fond of a nanny goat he calls “Madeleine Albright”.

Beginning in an apartment in Bosnia and ending in a suburban kitchen in North America, The Bone Bridge spirals in and around the very personal lives of individuals working to rebuild their lives after conflict. As the Leader is found in hiding and goes on trial for human rights abuses, the delicate balance that has been struck is about to be blown wide open. The Bone Bridge is an exploration of civil conflict, nationalism and the culpability of leadership - when home and country are lost, and neighbour has turned on neighbour, is it humanly possible to recover?

Bone Bridge won The Woodward International Playwriting Prize in the U.S. in 2017. It also won the National UpRising Prize in Canada for plays concerning social justice. It was a finalist for the Herman Voaden Prize, the Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Competition (NYC) competition and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (San Francisco).

The Bone Bridge is not yet contracted for its professional premiere.

Kate has had enough. Ernie has brought enough auction junk home to fill a caboose in the west pasture. She throws his latest purchase at him and locks him out of the house.

As he figures out a way to get back inside to the waiting dinner, they both discover that they’ve been avoiding something for way too long. This celebrated short play tackles how we keep going when no-one and nothing has lived up to our expectations.

1789. The edge of the French Revolution, and a young Madame Tussaud (Marie Grosholz) is recalled from her post at the Palace of Versailles back to Dr. Curtius’ Wax Salon in the heart of Paris.

Reunited with her mother and her mentor, she is introduced to the most influential persons in Paris, including Maximilien Robespierre, who takes a particular interest in her art. As the revolution descends into shadow, Marie is forced to confront the remains of those she has befriended – whose waxen images must be set with signs that identify them as ‘patriots’ or ‘enemies’.

Waxworks is an exploration of the tales we are told, the heroes and villains we create — and the life of an extraordinary artist who developed the first world-wide brand in entertainment history.

Winner of APN Best New Play Award 2007. Has had two academic workshop productions, but has not had its professional world premiere.

1917. The largest man-made explosion prior to Hiroshima. Two thousand dead, hundreds injured and blinded, and many more homeless.

Shatter explores the little-known details of the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Anna MacLean is a teenager, thrilled with her new diary, ripe with the promise of youth, and flush with excitement at all of the handsome soldiers in the streets of Halifax.

Though Anna’s mother and her best friend, Elsie Schultz, talk of the war, Anna can only think about whether the young man at the door enforcing the blackout order thought she was pretty. The next morning the world collapses. As a community tries to find someone to blame, four characters search through the rubble for something true. Lyrical and shockingly relevant to our post 9/11 world, Shatter is an examination of the cycles of fear.