Ethan Claymore

David E. Kemp, a former professor of drama at Queen’s University, is
the author of The Pleasures and Treasures of the United Kingdom.

In this play, award-winning playwright creates a world that has the
quality of a Norman Rockwell painting. It is the week before Christmas
and Ethan Claymore, a struggling egg farmer and would-be artist, is
still mourning his wife who has been dead for five years. Ethan’s
friend Douglas is determined that Ethan should make a new start, and
where better to begin than to strike up a friendship with the new
schoolteacher, Teresa Pike? Before Douglas can set his plans for Ethan
into motion, Ethan receives a visit from his estranged and recently
deceased older brother, Martin, who has his own plans for achieving
Ethan’s “rehabilitation.” Mixing sentiment and gentle comedy, this
heart-warming play is a balm for theatregoers weary of plays that focus
exclusively on the darker side of human existence.