Whatever happened to contemplation? To just standing in front of a great work - and beholding it. Ecce Gloria. Ecce without texting.
- Mr. Grant laments, in Scenes from Trevi Fountain

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Dave Carley is a Toronto-based playwright. His plays have had over 400 productions across Canada and the United States and in many countries around the world. They include Writing with our Feet (nominated for the Governor General’s Award), After You, The Edible Woman, Taking Liberties, and Orchidelirium.

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Radio Drama... The Harper axe has fallen on CBC and one of the victims is Radio Drama. After a long and proud history, it's gone. In the week ahead I will write a lament - it will be in the Potpourri section. To listen to Michael Enright's interview with Eric Peterson on The Sunday Edition, click here.
To read an astonishing appeal from Canadians to save the art form, click here.

Herb Jung's painting of American tourists at Rome's Trevi Fountain. To appreciate it in its (much) larger glory, you're going to have to come to the show...

Save yourself an airfare to Italy: For something different... Scenes from Trevi Fountain is a kind of tableau vivante, where characters from Herb Jung's large painting come to life. Toronto audiences can catch the show at a number of times over the weekend of May 25-27 at The Womens Art Institute in Yorkville. Performance times are Friday, May 25 at 7:30 pm and Saturday the 26th at 2, 4 and 7:30 pm. Admission is pwyc.
For Exhibition invite, click here.

The Last Liberal in Peterborough: As part of New Stages' annual season, Artistic Director Randy Read presents a series of play readings. On June 3, it is the turn of Dave's political drama The Last Liberal. The venue is Showplace Peterborough; casting to be announced shortly.

Showplace Peterborough, in the heart of the Lift Lock City's Downtown. Two other of Dave's plays have been produced here by New Stages: *After You* and *Walking on Water.*

D Day script now available: the one act school version of The Final Hour is now available from One Act Play Depot. The Final Hour - which I wrote with Glenda MacFarlane - tells the story of five Canadian soldiers as they cross the English Channel in the early hours of D Day, June 6, 1944. For more information or to order the script...

The cast of The Final Hour on the stage of Toronto's Glenn Gould Theatre, June 2004. From Left to Right: Herbie Barnes, Jonathon Crombie, David Cook, Patrick Garrow and (sitting) Matthew Ferguson. The uniforms were authentic and were worn on D Day - they even smelled real!

Other things to do on D Day (if you're in Virginia): OTARP Theatre is presenting a weekend of radio productions, including Dave's You Don't Know Jack, the weekend of June 5-7. The venue is The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen. Pictured below, and adding a note of Downton gravitas, is Richmond's primo tourist attraction, Agecroft Hall.

Shuffle off to Buffalo: Breaking a strictish rule to never write about one's friends, the scavenging techniques of one pal are described in 'Incident on Crescent Road', which is being presented by Buffalo United Artists, June 22-July 1. More info on tickets and locale coming.

This just in: Atlantic Canada residents will soon be able to hear a repeat broadcast of Season 2 of Backbencher, the popular drama series conceived and written by Wendy Lill (and for which I edited and wrote the occasional episode.) In the meantime, episodes are also available on iTunes.