He was best known for his 1990 play Brave Hearts,[1] which was noted as one of the first significant gay-themed plays in Canadian theatre history to address gay themes in a rural setting outside of the traditional gay urban meccas of Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.
He met the woman he'd marry in Winnipeg, and they moved to rural Manitoba and had a daughter before he died.
The first production of Brave Hearts was staged by Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto, where it was a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Outstanding New Play, Small Theatre Division in 1991.
[4] In 1992 Brave Hearts was included in Making Out, the first significant anthology of gay-themed Canadian plays, alongside works by David Demchuk, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Colin Thomas and Ken Garnhum;[5] in 2006, it appeared in the anthology Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays, alongside plays by Greg Kearney, Shawn Postoff, Christian Lloyd, Greg MacArthur, Ken Brand and Michael Achtman.
[6] Rintoul's other plays included Life and Times, Refugees,[7] Montana,[8] Jack of Hearts, Between Then and Now, The Convergence of Luke[9] and Lake Nowhere.