Automatic Pilot

Automatic Pilot a play in two acts by Canadian playwright Erika Ritter. Synopsis: A stand-up comic discovers that unhappiness is the source of her creative and comic powers. An expose of modern relationships. Winner, 1980 Chalmers Canadian Play Award. First produced in 1980 by the New Theatre at the Adelaide Court Theatre, Toronto. Male Cast: 3, Female Cast: 1. (http://www.playwrightsguild.ca/play/automatic-pilot).

Performed in the Baxter Studio (a S.R.O. production) in 1982, directed by Jacqui Singer, starring Maralin Vanrenen, Fred Abrahamse, Derek Lyndon, Peter Krummeck. (Source: Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987).

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