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    Between the Sheets
    Between the Sheets
    Between the Sheets
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    Between the Sheets

    By Jordi Mand

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    Marion, a working mother with a special-needs child, has discovered a devastating secret: her husband Curtis has been engaging in a torrid love affair with none other than their son's young teacher, Teresa. Armed with love notes between Curtis and Teresa, Marion shows up to a parent-teacher interview to confront the woman who may be the thread that unravels her life. What ensues is a gripping and raw confrontation between two women, one fighting to protect her family, the other fighting for the family she always wanted.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2014
    ISBN9781770912120
    Between the Sheets
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    Jordi Mand

    Jordi Mand is a Toronto-based playwright who writes for theatre, TV, and film. As a playwright, her work has been produced around the world, published, and translated into multiple languages. Some of her plays include Between the Sheets, Caught, and Brontë: The World Without. For TV, she was a writer on the hit CTV Canadian crime drama, Cardinal. She is a graduate of the CFC’s Bell Media Prime Time TV Program and NTS's Acting program. Her adaptation of Little Women will premiere in June 2022 at the Stratford Festival. She has plays in development with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company and the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre. She is also the writer for the upcoming film adaptation of The Honey Farm and is developing a TV series with Alibi Entertainment.

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      Between the Sheets - Jordi Mand

      Between the Sheets was first produced by Nightwood Theatre from September 18 to October 7, 2012, in the Tarragon Theatre Extra Space, Toronto. It featured the following cast and creative team:

      Marion: Susan Coyne

      Teresa: Christine Horne

      Directed by Kelly Thornton

      Dramaturgy by Erica Kopyto

      Set and costume design by Kelly Wolf

      Lighting design by Bonnie Beecher

      Music and sound design by Richard Feren

      Between the Sheets was first developed as part of Nightwood Theatre’s Write From the Hip Program from February 2010 to February 2011. The play received a public reading with the same cast and director as above.

      Between the Sheets received a workshop production as part of Nightwood Theatre’s New Groundswell Festival in November of 2011 with the same cast as above. It featured the following creative team:

      Directed by Kelly Thornton

      Dramaturgy by Erica Kopyto

      Set and costume design by Camellia Koo

      Lighting design by Sandra Henderson

      Music and sound design by Richard Feren

      Characters

      Teresa

      Marion

      An elementary school classroom.

      The room is filled with colourful class projects. Small desks and chairs are set up neatly in rows. The words Parent Teacher Interviews are written on the blackboard. Pieces of decorated construction paper hang from the front of every desk with a student’s name on it. There is a garbage can near the front desk. The room is spacious but intimate.

      We see TERESA in her class. She is in her late twenties. She wears a warm-coloured dress, tights, shoes with a bit of a heel, and a thin gold necklace. There is a sweater draped over the back of her chair. She is naturally beautiful and wears very little makeup.

      TERESA is tidying the room, repositioning some of the chairs and desks. There are two chairs set up at the front of the class where parents have sat. She moves them to the back of the class.

      She walks to the blackboard, grabs an eraser, and wipes the board clean. There are a few piles of file folders neatly stacked on the corner of her desk. She puts them into a filing cabinet. She returns to her desk and takes a long sip from a mug.

      She moves a few more things around. As she does, she knocks some papers to the floor.

      TERESA

      Shit.

      TERESA gets up out of her chair to clean the mess.

      Beat.

      As she picks up the last piece of paper from the floor she stands and sees MARION in the doorway.

      MARION is in her early fifties. She wears a tailored grey suit with a crisp white blouse. She carries a large purse over one shoulder and drapes a coat over her arms. She wears pearl earrings and a diamond wedding band. She is meticulous about her appearance.

      TERESA and MARION stare at one another.

      MARION

      Miss Stewart?

      Beat.

      TERESA

      Yes.

      Beat.

      MARION

      I’m Alex’s mother.

      TERESA

      Of course.

      MARION

      I hope I’m not too late. I got held up at the office.

      TERESA

      Late?

      MARION

      For the interviews. They’re tonight, are they not?

      TERESA

      They are but… I just held my last one.

      MARION

      Oh.

      TERESA

      I was just finishing up, actually.

      MARION

      Well I’m sure you wouldn’t mind if I grabbed the last slot then.

      MARION enters the room.

      I just have a few

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