Great Canadian Theatre Company's season opener is a Western filled with rich relationships

Activate your Online Access NowThe play, which debuted in Toronto in 2015, is part of a body of work that has led to Connell, a 47-year-old graduate of Queen’s University, the University of New Brunswick and the National Theatre School of Canada, being lauded as one of Canada’s most innovative playwrights.

She realized that making her play a Western would allow her to set aside moral or sentimental questions having to do with abortion. “That’s not what I want to talk about,” says Connell.Article content “The Western is a perfect palette for creating a world where things are neither good nor bad, they just are,” agrees Emily Pearlman, the play’s director in Ottawa.

When the play opened in Toronto in 2015, Connell was its director. While she has updated her text a little to make it more current, she is not involved in bringing the GCTC production to the stage. Pearlman directed Connell’s play Hroses: An Affront to Reason, when it was staged in Ottawa in 2013. The following year, that production captured the bulk of the honours at the seventh annual Rideau Awards, which honour locally produced English and French professional theatre.Article content

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