Synopsis (from the Times-Colonist [Victoria]): "The tale of a small Vancouver Island community disrupted when someone's secrets are revealed by a newspaper reporter.

"Harmon is a good-hearted, middle-aged farmer . . . . Todd, a bald-pated alternative-rock aficionado, is Harmon's hired hand. Life in their anonymous yet idyllic island community is disrupted with the arrival of Kim, a Calgary newspaper reporter who starts her own paper. Kim's big city tactics (print and be damned) shake up this close-knit hamlet."

From The Bulletin (Nanaimo): "Apparently Harmon has been taking in young offenders to work on his farm and purposely not telling people about the boys' criminal pasts.

"It's a story that forces its characters, as well as the audience, to examine their capacity for tolerance as they come to grips with Harmon and his latest farm hand Todd Horstmann, whom everyone likes until they find out that he was previously arrested."

"A thought-provoking and emotional play about betrayal and conflict . . . excellent."
- Island Life Magazine

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About the Playwright: Frank Moher's plays have been produced internationally, at theatres including South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Detroit Repertory Theatre, Round House Theatre (Silver Spring, Maryland), the Canadian Stage Company (Toronto), the Wellington Repertory Theatre (Wellington, New Zealand), Workshop West Theatre (Edmonton, Alta.), the Asolo Theater (Sarasota, Fla.), Alberta Theatre Projects (Calgary), the Gyre and Gimble Theatre Company (Dublin), and The Mingei Theatre (Tokyo). He has won a Los Angeles Drama-Logue Award for Writing (for Odd Jobs), the Edmonton Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play (for both The Third Ascent and Prairie Report,), and is published by both ProPlay and the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Frank has taught at the University of British Columbia and the University of Alberta (where he was a Distinguished Visiting Artist), and is currently an instructor in dramatic writing at Malaspina University-College on Vancouver Island. He has also worked professionally as a literary manager and dramaturg, and writes regularly for various magazines and newspapers, including backofthebook.ca. His most recent play, Big Baby, has been seen in Vancouver, Calgary, and Los Angeles.

All I Ever Wanted was premiered by the Nanaimo Festival Theatre, Nanaimo, B.C., in November, 1995.