Feb 1, 2023
Award winning actor and playwright, Beth Graham, has come to know the voices of her inner critic(s) well, having adopted the term Weasels to capture the sometimes playful, more often threatening nature of such characters to the creative temperament. She was so familiar with the nature of her own Weasels, that she chose to give them the title role in one of her latest plays, examining the turmoil we can experience when our voices turn from curiosity to doubt, to fear and to the abandonment of courage and confidence.
As an actor, Beth Graham, has worked professionally at theatres across the country and toured internationally. As a playwright, she has received the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Literary Award twice and has been a finalist for the Governor Generals Award for Drama. Currently, Beth is the Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta. At the time of our conversation, her play Weasel had just opened in Edmonton, Dora Maar: The Wicked One, which she cowrote with longtime collaborate Daniela Vlaskalic was back in rehearsals for its Edmonton production at Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre and I caught up with her in St. John’s, Newfoundland where she was working as dramaturge on a dance show based on a collection of poetry.