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This award-winning francophone play casts us into the world of magic realism. In Quebecois playwright Sébastien Harrisson’s unique world, time dances with the fast-forwards of grief, the slowness of healing, and the unpredictable rhythms of shared wisdom. When a retired librarian is held hostage by a tough-talking teenager, they gradually discover that what they have both lost is the one thing they have in common.
Why I Chose This Play
Francophone playwrights have a unique sensibility—interpreting the world with surprising wit and unique imagination. This play exemplifies those qualities. It is such a stunning confusion of aching need and fierce self-protection, wrapped in a magic realism that makes a mockery of time—to the point where we happily abandon ourselves to the heart of what Harrisson has conjured for us. – Michael Shamata
This production is generously sponsored by Peninsula Co-Op, Gabriel Ross, and Broadmead Hearing.
Content Warning
Contains stage haze, simulated cigarette use, strong language, and mature themes.
“A play about coming to terms with identity, be it social, political, sexual, linguistic, generational, or intellectual.”
“Pits the limitations of daily life against the vastness of the human spirit.”
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