Goodness

by Michael Redhill
Volcano, Toronto

Winner, Best of Edinburgh Award, 2006

“Explosive… I doubt if there will be a more gripping theatrical experience…at Edinburgh this year.” The Independent

“One of the top ten shows of the past decade” NOW Magazine

“Gripping and important” The New York Times

This remarkable autobiographical play by the award-winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane (Giller Prize Finalist), is a Russian-doll-like play: concentric stories enveloping each other. A writer is told, in confidence, a terrible tale of murder and injustice and he promises never to repeat the story. Goodness is the writer breaking his word.

Goodness examines genocide from a novel perspective. A Jewish-Canadian writer, and the descendent of Holocaust survivors, meets a woman who has lived through a much more recent genocide. The conflict between them fuels the play, which examines individual responsibility, prejudice, and revenge. The stage is filled with music from around the world, from Ukraine to Croatia to Zimbabwe. The audience, never told where the recent genocide occurred, is deprived of any easy platform from which to judge.

Goodness is a play about what happens in the gaps between experiencing, telling and hearing.

Part of SPARK Festival 2012

We have just launched our new SPARK Website – you can find more information about Goodness and all of the details of the rest of the festival at www.sparkfestival.ca

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