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| Tim Webber as Doug and Kate Hurman as Sandra. |
Mourning Dove began as a commissioned radio play for CBC's Morningside first broadcast in 1996. Selected as the Canadian entry in the inaugural WorldPlay festival showcasing the best of English-language drama, it has been broadcast in the U.S., Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and South Africa and translated into Slovak. Emil adapted the radio play for the stage while a playwright-in-residence at Necessary Angel Theatre. He developed the script with then artistic director Richard Rose, leading to public workshops in 2002 in Toronto and at the University of Lethbridge. A staged reading followed at the National Showcase of New Plays in Philadelphia. Several drafts later, Mourning Dove premiered at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in February 2005.
| "Sher's wrenching drama......warrants many more productions and subsequent discussions." |
Iris Winston, Variety
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| "Sometimes, the role of theatre is to make you think about the world around you, and that's what this play does so well." |
Anne Michaud, Tous les matins du monde, CBC Radio
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| "Sher's script, Lorne Pardy's directing and the [cast] illustrate how complex the responses of the human heart and human soul are." |
Michael Valpy, The Globe and Mail
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| Tim Webber (Doug) and Ben Meuser (Keith) rehearse a scene from the Noah's Ark play. |
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