bittergirl

By Alison Lawrence, Mary Francis Moore and Annabel Fitzsimmons

bittergirl charts the break-ups of three women--one single and dating, one co-habiting, one married with a child. This trio of Women Scorned experience heartbreak, hilarity, fairy-tales gone wrong, tequila, mounties, love, honour, car-keying, repeated viewings of An Affair To Remember, fake spleenectomies, and meetings of Breakups Anonymous.

And then there are the men! The ones who want to alphabetize your CDs, the ones who give you shoelaces for your birthday. See the bittergirls list all of those things you should have told him the truth about. See Barbie and Ken break up! Laugh very hard.

The phenomenon that is bittergirl had three sold-out runs in Toronto, toured to London, England and played off-Broadway in NYC. This new, full-length version of the script has even more bittergirl wit and hard-won wisdom--and music, too!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scirocco Drama
• Release date: Jul 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781990737060

Alison Lawrence

Alison Lawrence is an actor and writer. Alison's previous writing credits include And All For Love, which premiered at the National Arts Centre and bittergirl (Scirocco Drama, 2009), co-authored with Annabel Griffiths and Mary Francis Moore. The bittergirls also co-wrote the self-help guide Bittergirl: Getting Over Getting Dumped, and are now developing bittergirl: the musical. Alison has also written Biff, in which she gave birth onstage; Going For Groceries, a play for a mother and a ten-year-old girl, and is currently writing two new plays: Shannon and Piece by Piece. She lives in Toronto with her two favourite people, Brian and Emma.

Book preview

Cover: Bitter Girl, written by Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, and Mary Francis Moore, published under Scirocco Drama, by J. Gordon Shillingford, shows a woman's foot in white stilettos over an almost wilted bunch of roses held out by a man's hand. The cuff on the man's hand shows a black shirt with thin white stripes on it.

BittERGiRL

ANNABEL FitZSiMMONS

ALiSON LAWRENCE

MARY FRANCiS MOORE

bittergirl

first published 2009 by

Scirocco Drama

An imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing Inc.

© 2009 Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, Mary Francis Moore

Reprinted 2018

Scirocco Drama Editor: Glenda MacFarlane

Cover design by Terry Gallagher/Doowah Design Inc.

Author photo by Rachael McCaig

Printed and bound in Canada on 100% post-consumer recycled paper.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Manitoba Arts Council, The Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for our publishing program.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, for any reason, by any means, without the permission of the publisher. This play is fully protected under the copyright laws of Canada and all other countries of the Copyright Union and is subject to royalty. Changes to the text are expressly forbidden without written consent of the authors. Rights to produce, film, record in whole or in part, in any medium or in any language, by any group, amateur or professional, are retained by the authors.

Production inquiries should be addressed to:

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Fitzsimmons, Annabel, 1971-

Bittergirl / Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, Mary Francis Moore.

A play.

ISBN 978-1-897289-38-9

I. Lawrence, Alison, 1959- II. Moore, Mary Francis, 1969- III. Title.

PS8611.I897B48 2009                     C812’.6                        C2009-901773-3

J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing

P.O. Box 86, RPO Corydon Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada R3M 3S3

Thanks to our bitterboys: director and dramaturge Michael Waller; designer and stage manager John Patrick Robichaud; our first D Stephen Reich; and later David Macniven who picked up where Stephen left off. Thanks as always to our families for their support, and thank you to Glenda MacFarlane and Gord Shilllingford.

Group photograph of the three authors Mary Francis Moore, Alison Lawrence, and Annabel Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons is sitting on a bench in a park with Moore and Lawrence are standing behind.

(l to r): Mary Francis Moore, Alison Lawrence, and Annabel Fitzsimmons

Annabel Fitzsimmons survived the public humiliation of being dumped in a restaurant by learning to wrap her legs around her head and becoming one of Toronto’s busiest yoga teachers. She is a freelance writer and a much sought-after health and fitness consultant.

Tired of re-enacting her break-up with her daughter’s Ken and Barbie, broken-down single mum Alison Lawrence found salvation in a pair of strappy sandals, a well-shaken martini and by creating bittergirl with Annabel and Mary Francis. A writer and actor, Alison’s other plays include And All For Love and The Catering Queen.

Mary Francis Moore is an accomplished actor, director and writer who has worked across Canada, in the US and England. She was given the Twelve Vegetables of Christmas by one hapless exbut eventually got over him by having the entire German National Volleyball Team over for a swim.

Bitter? You bet. But they got over it by joining forces and writing bittergirl, the play, publishing the self-help book Bittergirl: Getting Over Getting Dumped and dispensing relationship advice all over North America in print and on radio and TV, including NBC’s The Today Show, CBC Radio One’s Sounds Like Canada, Glamour and Elle. bittergirl: the musical is currently in development. Success really is the best revenge.

Cast

A.................................................................... A woman

B .................................................................... A woman