In this brief interview, Badian explains how much of her work is fiction, what is real, and discusses her future projects.
For those unable to read the previous article on your works, what is Prairie Nurse about?Badian: Prairie Nurse is a romantic comedy of mistaken identity set in a prairie hospital in rural Saskatchewan, Canada in 1969. Two Filipino nurses arrive to work at the hospital, and it soon becomes apparent that no one can tell them apart, including the lab technician who falls in love-at-first-sight with one of them.
How much of it is fiction and how much of it is inspiration?Badian: The entire plot of the play is fiction. However, all the characters are based on real-life people who lived and worked with my mother in Arborfield, Saskatchewan in the late sixties. I wanted to pay tribute to them and the friendship they had with my mother, so I kept their real names; all except for the two nurses. I included little things that were part of my mother’s experience, like her brother sending her an envelope filled with soil from the Philippines because he was afraid there was no soil in Canada, only snow.
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