Elizabeth Elwood

My first attempt at adapting a story from one form to another resulted from my husband’s reading my short story, “To Catch an Actress”. He thought it would make a good play, and I decided to rise to the challenge.

Over the past few months, I spent little time on the Internet, partly because I was working on a new manuscript, but mainly due to the fact that our little cat, Minx, at nineteen years of age, was ailing and

People often ask me whether I prefer writing plays, stories or marionette musicals. It’s hard to answer that question and I always end up saying that I most enjoy whichever I am doing at the particular moment. Writing a story

I was very sad to receive the winter edition of the Puppetry Arts Institute newsletter and see that their long-time director, Diane Houk, had passed away last November. Diane was a charming and talented lady who, with her husband and

One often hears tales of actors falling ill and, in the absence of a proper understudy, some poor individual being handed a script and forced to step in. However, in all my years of theatre, I had never actually experienced

[box]A year ago I wrote the following blog about Agatha Christie’s play, Go Back for Murder. What a delight now to be able to post pictures from the wonderful Vagabond Players production. And yes, I did end up designing the

The members of the Vancouver Lower Mainland community theatre scene were very sad to see the passing of George Kopf last month, and today, at the Bernie Legge Theatre, we celebrated his life. For many years, George was a fixture

Our wonderful summer at Pender Harbour—a heady mix of writing, hiking, fishing, swimming and craft-market vending—was blighted when I lost my wedding and engagement rings, the two being fused together into an ornate arrangement that I had treasured for the

Hundreds of years before the Europeans arrived, the Sechelt First Nations people roamed the Sunshine Coast of B.C.  Visitors to Pender Harbour will immediately notice Mount Daniel and Pender Hill overlooking the bay, and it does not take much leap

Audiences will have another opportunity to see Vagabond Players’ enchanting production of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) when the play opens the Theatre B.C. Greater Vancouver Zone Festival on Sunday, May 4 at Vancouver’s Metro Theatre.  New Westminster audiences raved