About the Play:

Encore is a full-length dramatic comedy by Marc Prescott. A man walks into a bar… he sees a beautiful woman sitting alone at a table and the chase is on! Given just ten minutes to win her over, they engage in a dialogue that will forever shape their lives. Encore is sad, funny, hopelessly romantic and lovingly bittersweet comedy about a married couple who re-enact their first date every year in an attempt to rekindle the flame.

Encore is a two-hander that takes a married couple back – again and again – to the instant they first met in a hotel lounge. A symbolically nameless couple chart their 50-year relationship by reenacting their first encounter on every wedding anniversary. She has carefully written the script of their original encounter and they believe they can recreate the intoxicating feeling of falling in love by saying the same lines year after year but always fall short of this goal and are doomed to disappointment. They yearn to be seduced by the exact words of their original encounter but time and circumstance have changed the meaning of these words. Encore is essentially the same scene replayed six times but paradoxically it is never quite the same – which ironically is the message of the play. The romantic comedy's title is a metaphor that life is indeed a stage.

Encore was originally written and performed in French in 2003 at Théâtre Cercle Molière in Winnipeg, the oldest theatre company in Canada, French or English. It was translated by the author and first performed in English in 2008 by Theatre Projects in Winnipeg. Since then the play has been successfully staged in both in French and in his English translation at several professional theatres across Canada, including the Montreal premiere in 2019 at the MainLine Theatre in a bilingual production.

Cast: 1 female, 1 male

What people say:

"A satisfyingly touching portrayal of a love that weathers the damages inflicted by lovers who, through a lifetime together and apart, finally realize the sanctity of it." — Uptown Magazine

"Satiric, compassionate, insightful, tenderly sad and cleverly written, the play takes the audience on an emotional roller-coaster." — Winnipeg Free Press

About the Playwright:

Marc Prescott is a Franco-Manitoban playwright, actor, director, translator, designer and screenwriter. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada's French Playwriting program, his plays have been produced across Canada and abroad, both in French and in his English translations.