Michael Ross Albert's The Bidding War casts Toronto's looks for the humour in Toronto's vicious housing market. If you have, you know the process can be torturous, an avalanche of paperwork that likely leads to owning a space that, let's face it, isn't big enough, or isn't in a convenient location.while average inflation-adjusted incomes have risen by only 2.3 per cent.
"It's really exciting to be in a new play, where we're building the foundation as we go," says Santalucia. "We're working on a new comedic play with 11 people in it — that hardly ever happens in Canada. Michael has crafted a capital-P Play, and he's used comedy as a way to provide some really astute social critiques. And ultimately, the play winds up being about the push for a middle class, and the disappearance of that class, as well.
While Canada's housing market is, in most ways, deeply unfunny — ask the zillennial in your life how they feel about real estate, and they likely won't laugh about it — Albert and Santalucia have worked hard to find moments of levity and absurdity within"It's a very unfunny context, yes, but this scenario has existed for centuries," explains Santalucia.
According to Santalucia, Albert honours that history in the play by imbuing the text with sky-high stakes and meaningful commentary on our shared humanity. Audiences can expect to see suggestions of extreme physical violence and other slapstick-inspiredyou do if you were faced with the chance to buy the last affordable house?," explains Santalucia.
"Comedy is one of the most cogent forms of protest we have available to us," agrees Albert. "If we can see ourselves, and the desperate measures we will go to when entrenched in an unfair, prehistoric, imperialist system, and we can laugh at it — we can see how unfair it is. And we can make a personal change — maybe that means engaging in politics more. Maybe that means actually showing up to vote. But I hope this play emphasizes that this issue really does impact all of us.
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