The General Motors Playwrights Theater

1. Clara

Air Date: 1991-02-05

2. Unpublished Letters

Air Date: 1991-03-09

Josh lives surrounded by stacks of newspapers. He meets his illegitimate half-sister Carol because of their famous author father's passing. Josh, despite his writer father was slow to learn to read, and kept newspapers as a reassurance of his literacy. He reluctantly lets Carol stay in his apartment, for which she repays him with the unwitting violation of clearing out all the newspapers. Carol, who is jealous of what she assumes to be intimacy between Josh and their father, discloses that she has received a great abundance of letters from him over the years, which leads us to the title of the play. Josh, who was in truth always distant from Dad, explains to Carol that her inheritance is in the value of these "unpublished letters".

3. The Last Act Is a Solo

Air Date: 1991-04-02

An aging stage actress gets a surprise visit in her dressing room from a theater critic and former fan.

4. It's Called the Sugar Plum

Air Date: 1991-05-05

1. Hale the Hero

Air Date: 1992-01-14

The story of Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale, seen on the night before his execution as a spy by the British.

2. Merry Christmas, Baby

Air Date: 1992-02-11

An embattled son and father break through a lifetime of alienation in a shabby apartment on Christmas Eve.

3. Avenue Z Afternoon

Air Date: 1992-03-10

4. I Remember You

Air Date: 1992-04-14

1. The Whole Shebang

Air Date: 1993-03-19

A nervous student appears before his university dean and two senior professors to defend his final project: the creation of the universe, accomplished in less than a week. The dean and the professors are favourably impressed, until a pair of seriously flawed inhabitants of earth show up.

2. The Parallax Garden

Air Date: 1993-04-13

A one-act, witty play by Canadian playwright Paddy Campbell. Emilie, a middle-aged eccentric, is suddenly abandoned by her husband and left alone with an empty house and a barren garden. She makes a friend in a scarecrow that she dresses in her departed husband's clothes to the dismay of family and neighbours.