Robin Rowland

Robin Rowland is a Canadian author, playwright and visual journalist based in Kitimat, on the northwestern coast of British Columbia. His radio plays A Truthful Witness (Scales of Justice) King of the Bootleggers (Morningside Drama written with James Dubro) and Hot Coffee (Mornningside Drama) were produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp in the 1980s. His recent fiction works include short stories for the Darkover Anthologies and the Canadian Dreadful anthology. He is the author of five non-fiction books, including three historical investigations, two on Prohibition gangsters and one on Japanese war crimes during the Second World War. He co-wrote Researching on the Internet, published in 1995 one of the first books on how to search the internet.. He worked as a news producer and...

Robin Rowland is a Canadian author, playwright and visual journalist based in Kitimat, on the northwestern coast of British Columbia. His radio plays A Truthful Witness (Scales of Justice) King of the Bootleggers (Morningside Drama written with James Dubro) and Hot Coffee (Mornningside Drama) were produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp in the 1980s. His recent fiction works include short stories for the Darkover Anthologies and the Canadian Dreadful anthology. He is the author of five non-fiction books, including three historical investigations, two on Prohibition gangsters and one on Japanese war crimes during the Second World War. He co-wrote Researching on the Internet, published in 1995 one of the first books on how to search the internet.. He worked as a news producer and videographer for the Canadian TV networks for three decades and continues to work as an author with a couple of works in progress and an independent visual journalist, shooting both still photographs and video.

Scripts

Gadson's Folly

by Robin Rowland

Synopsis

In the near future, Haydon Gadson, one of the last independent visual journalists, aged 24, unexpectedly returns home for his father Garth's 60th birthday. Haydon's agency closed, leaving him without a job. The return opens old wounds, about Haydon joining the family robotics business, which he may now have no choice to do, despite an old family tradition of risky adventures. The seaside mansion, Gadson's Folly...

In the near future, Haydon Gadson, one of the last independent visual journalists, aged 24, unexpectedly returns home for his father Garth's 60th birthday. Haydon's agency closed, leaving him without a job. The return opens old wounds, about Haydon joining the family robotics business, which he may now have no choice to do, despite an old family tradition of risky adventures. The seaside mansion, Gadson's Folly is a century old, built by an eccentric ancestor in the style of ancient Troy. Haydon's sister Meredith, mid 30s, works as a peace maker between the two. Unexpectedly a local lawyer and charming rogue Seth Poesda. 30s, arrives in the midst of the party to dispute an environmental issue about the Folly that Garth has refused to consider. Watching over this are a modern chorus, Tari Reyes, a prophet, Charlene, Lashonda and Azzurra, granddaughters of the three Greek fates. At the height of the party, the long ignored environmental issues are suddenly life threatening when a tsunami warning sounds, which is ignored, and then the tsunami strikes. Loosely based on the Welsh legend of the Land of Gwyddno or Cardigan Bay.