A Little Bite of Paradise
When a drug drop-off is mistakenly made to her house, a grieving mother faces off with a teenage drug dealer whose past might intersect with hers.
Characters
EVA: female, 40s-50s, upper-middle class
WAYNE: male, late teens, struggling class
Length
20 minutes (40 minute version available)
Production history
Show Dates: May 1-5, 2024, as part of the juried New Ideas Festival. Location: Toronto, ON, Director: Ilana Linden. Producers: Pat McCarthy, Carolyn Zapf, Brenda Darling, Kimmie Croscup, and Lamesha Rudd. Starring: Jeremy Ferdman and Danielle Cox. Stage Manager: Bini Shah. Set Designer: Victoria van der Meulen. Lighting Designer: Daniel Shiels. Sound Designer: Andrew Honor.
From stage to screen: “Bite of Paradise” now a short film
I’m excited to announce my play “A Little Bite of Paradise” has been turned into a short film, "A Natural Remedy" (2026), directed by Julia Lalonde (“Wet Noodle,” runner up, CBC Gem’s 2025 Short Film Face Off) and co-executive produced by Anne Tait. Click on ????? to learn more.
Lead actor Lawrie Carruthers on set.
Why Linda Griffiths?
I’d been fascinated by Linda Griffiths since I was 13-years-old, and her one-woman show Maggie and Pierre became a Canadian cultural phenomenon. It was a ground-breaking play: set in Canada (not London or New York), about our own political celebrities, written by a woman, and starring the author, who dared to play all the parts. Griffiths bravely occupied artistic space in a way I’d never seen a woman do, especially a Canadian woman. I wanted to be like her.
Linda Griffiths, Globe and Mail
Bravery was a theme throughout Griffiths’ career. When she started out in the 1970s, many critics claimed Canada was “too young” to create its own theatre. Griffiths stormed right over that idea and created plays about everything from farming in Saskatchewan to the life of poet Gwendolyn MacEwan. She did so both solo and in collaboration with artists like Paul Thompson, Layne Coleman, and Maria Campbell. Griffiths also experimented with theatrical process and form. While Griffiths could have pursued a career in Hollywood, she chose to stay in Canada, creating interesting plays in an increasingly underfunded Canadian theatre scene. Even when she was ill with the cancer that claimed her life, she continued to create: an artist to her core.
