Six Palm Trees: laughter & poignancy, hundreds of times

Caitlin Hicks

PLAYWRIGHT. AUTHOR. PERFORMER. PRESENTER.

Six Palm Trees: laughter & poignancy, hundreds of times

In this week’s podcast I’m sharing a little bit of Six Palm Trees, a beloved one person stand-up comedy/drama I wrote with Gord Halloran when we were young parents and creatives living in a semi-detached heritage home near Bloor St. in Toronto.

Six Palm Trees features Annie Shea, Number 6 in a Catholic family of fourteen children, living in Pasadena, California in the Sixties. The play began as a stand-up comedy routine.

It has been performed hundreds of times to excellent reviews and standing ovations in the Eighties and Nineties on tour throughout California, British Columbia and in Oshawa, Seattle, Edmonton, Toronto, San Francisco and other cities and towns.

Funny and sad, powerful and whimsical, with mercurial mood changes and punchy humour. . . Six Palm Trees is more than a trip down memory lane . . it is a play (about) the price one woman paid to bear and raise 14 children. . . jewel of a play.” -The Sooke Standard, Vancouver Island, B.C. ”

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The second work in the saga of Annie Shea, A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE was published as a novel in 2015 to excellent reviews. The AUDIOBOOK is due for publication in October 2021! For a paperback copy of this novel, click on the sidebar on this page.