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Screen and Stage Plays
Alchemy Alive: Twelve Screen and Stage Plays
by Peter Freeman
These twelve screen and stage plays explore the richness and intensity of life:
• A decision to be made after an unexpected pregnancy;
• a political activist is imprisoned with a murderer;
• a date-rapist attempts to make amends;
• a secret tryst between professor and student switches when three’s a crowd;
• courage shifts from uncle to nephew when a rat appears;
• a migrant seeks his wife after war;
• justice comes in the strangest way to a boy abused by a priest;
• a virtual reality experience takes a strange twist;
• it’s hard to work in the tropics but the heat has its advantages;
• a leader loses confidence after an avalanche;
• a group of citizens save their island’s aquifer from a corporation’s greed;
• three skate punks help their friend tease out the intricacies of time travel.
Peter Freeman is a Canadian author whose work is shaped by a lifetime of adventure, endurance, and reflection. Based on Salt Spring Island, he writes fiction and nonfiction that explore resilience, human complexity, and the quiet forces that shape our lives.
Born in Noosa Heads, Australia, Peter’s early life unfolded along oceans and open horizons. He went on to sail across the Tasman Sea, build his own boat, and later complete a solo, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe in a record-setting 236 days—an experience captured in his memoir Cape Horn Birthday.
Beyond the sea, his life has been marked by movement and discipline. He has represented Canada internationally as a masters athlete and twice cycled across the country. At 61, he rode 15,400 kilometres around Australia—unsupported—in just 79 days.
Peter’s writing draws from this rich and varied life, blending lived experience with imagination. His stories range from literary fiction and psychological narratives to short stories, plays, and poetry. His work has received national and international recognition, including awards from Mensa Canada and The Fieldstone Review.
Across all genres, Peter writes with clarity, emotional depth, and a deep curiosity about what drives people—especially in moments of challenge, transformation, and survival.
