Past Productions
live eruptions or screened disruptions
CRUDE LOVE
Love in the Time of the Oil Sands
- Crude Love is a 60-minute play written by Gillian Bennett and Russell Bennett. Copyright 2008.
- Crude Love is an unlikely love story between Phyllis McCormack, a dump truck driver from Newfoundland and Abbie Waxman, an ex-Greenpeace eco-warrior from Toronto, set in Alberta's Tar Sands in the near future.
SELF-STORAGE
- Self-Storage is a 60-minute multi-character solo play written by Gillian Bennett. Copyright 2005.
- Self-Storage is about Normal, who decides to move into storage to get some space from her life.
ROCKET MAN
- Rocket Man is a 60-minute solo improvised play written by Russell Bennett and Gillian Bennett. Copyright 2005.
- Rocket Man follows three characters in their search for love in the universe.
THE REEFER MAN
- The Reefer Man is a 75-minute multi-character solo play written by Russell Bennett and Gillian Bennett. Copyright 2004.
- The Reefer Man is about Charlie Kovacs, a young lawyer who works at his father's law firm and who grows award-winning marijuana in his basement.
- Link to theatrical website - www.thereeferman.com
STONED: Hemp Nation on Trial
- STONED: Hemp Nation on Trial is a 48-minute documentary directed and produced by Russell Bennett and co-directed by Sarah Jane Flynn. Copyright 1998.
- STONED follows the story of Christopher Clay, who faced four life sentences for selling marijuana seeds and plant cuttings from his store Hemp Nation in London, Ontario.
- STONED was the most popular documentary on CBC's Rough Cuts in 1998-99 and was nominated for Best Political Documentary at HotDocs! in 1999.
