Directed by Weyni Mengesha
Written by Duncan Macmillan
Presented by Tarragon Theatre
Featuring Brendan Gall, Lesley Faulkner
Set Designer: Ken MacKenzie
Lighting Designer: Kimberly Purtell
Costume Designer: Ken MacKenzie Sound Designer: Thomas Ryder Payne
Stage Manager: Lindsay McIntosh
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Won Best Production at Toronto Critics Awards
3 Dora Award Nominations including Best Direction
What if they grow up and hate you? A bare stage, a man, a woman, a conversation, and infinite possibility. British Playwright Duncan Macmillan gives us a no-holds-barred look at a lifetime of love.
Duncan Macmillan is an award-winning British writer and director whose work has been produced in the UK and abroad to critical acclaim. Director Weyni Mengesha was named Best Director at the 2012 Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards for her work on Tarragon’s The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs.
“One of the hottest directors in town — Weyni Mengesha — at the helm. Is there anything this young woman can’t direct? Her handling and choreography of this show are simply immacu-late. The pace and pitch are perfection.”
The Toronto Star
“In the hands of director Weyni Mengesha and the actors, the thorny discussion makes for thrilling theatre.”
Now Magazine
“Mengesha’s latest is distinct in style and imagination...the pacing and tone is perfectly pitched throughout. Indeed, the play is so well-directed, you won’t even think it has been directed. Maybe that’s why Mengesha isn’t running everything yet; she lets other artists bask in the light she shines on a work.”
The Globe and Mail
