Beautiful Man & Other Short Plays

An eviscerating satire of gender roles in popular culture, Beautiful Man imagines a world in which women are the subjects and men the objects. As three women dissect the latest Hollywood blockbuster, narrative after narrative of strong female characters fold into each other, fusing into a brutally recognizable story.

In Unit B-1717, a woman is trying to clean out her storage locker and say goodbye to the past, but an overwhelming feeling of dread forces her to confront the way she has historically subjugated herself to the needs of others.

In And then there was you, a mother addresses her child as they both visit milestones that offered them each independence, and in the process explores how the profound connection between mother and child evolves.

Erin Shields is a Montreal-based playwright. Erin's adaptation of Paradise Lost premiered at the Stratford Festival of Canada and won the Quebec Writers Federation Prize for Playwriting. Erin won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama in 2011 for her play If We Were Birds, which premiered at Tarragon Theatre. Other theatre credits include Piaf/Dietrich, Beautiful Man, The Lady from the Sea, The Millennial Malcontent, Soliciting Temptation, and Instant.