About the Play:

Finalist for the 1997 Governor General's Award for Drama (Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize)

Atlantis is a full-length drama by Maureen Hunter. A two-hander about a passionate encounter between a Canadian man and a Greek woman, set on the Greek island of Santorini and told in a style that is both tenderly erotic and ecstatically mystical.

Atlantis is about two people who are consumed by unquenchable desire. Ben is a Canadian in his fifties who abandons all he knows to lose himself on the sunny island of Santorini, thought by many to be the very locale of legendary Atlantis. There he meets Mircea, a Greek woman with mystical powers and the island's personal saint. The two cast aside language and their ensuing love affair outrages the tiny village – but heals their personal and spiritual wounds.

Atlantis was first produced in 1996 by Manitoba Theatre Centre and Theatre Calgary. Since then the play has been produced widely at professional theatres across Canada, including the Belfry Theatre in Victoria, Edmonton, Kamloops, the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto, The Grand Theatre in London, and Vancouver.

Cast: 1 woman, 1 man

What people say:

"...highly literate ... a potent blend of sexy spiritualism and fey eroticism." — The Globe and Mail

About the Playwright:

Maureen Hunter is one of Canada's most accomplished playwrights. Her work has been produced extensively on Canada's major stages, as well as in Britain and the U.S. and has been nominated for two Governor General's Awards, two Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Outstanding New Play) and the Elinor and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. Her work has been produced extensively on Canada's major stages, in the United States, and Britain, and by CBC and BBC Radio. Her play Transit of Venus became the first Canadian play ever staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company of Britain. A native of Saskatchewan, Maureen Hunter now lives in Winnipeg.