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Halo

Halo
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Josh MacDonald
Publisher: Talonbooks (cover image may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 127
Pub. Date: 2002
ISBN-10: 0889224692
ISBN-13: 9780889224698
Cast Size: 3 female, 4 male

About the Play:

Halo is a full-length comedic drama by Josh MacDonald. When an image of Jesus appears on the wall of a local coffee shop, life is forever changed. Familiar characters are challenged to ask difficult questions about faith, life and love with sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious results. But could this modern miracle be real?

Halo is a brilliant examination of the need to believe and the power of forgiveness. When an image of Jesus Christ appears on the side of a Tim Hortons coffee shop in the fictional town of Nately, Nova Scotia, life is forever changed. The town's inhabitants are challenged to ask difficult questions about faith, life and love with sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious results. Complicating the matter, of course, are the more mundane questions of whether this appearance is a miracle, an accident, or quite possibly even a hoax. At the centre of this wickedly entertaining play resides the more existential and personal question of what has happened to our notion of meaning and ethics in the strip-mall culture of concrete and crass competition which has replaced a more pastoral and rural life of care for the earth, the cycle of the seasons and its festivals, and the blessings of renewal in the family. Has religion lost the ability to mediate these two conditions, or did it ever really have that power?

Halo premiered in 2000 by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts in Canning, Nova Scotia and played across the Province, and has been produced successfully by theatre companies across North America, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia, California to New York State. Halo is a curriculum title in various high schools and universities in Canada.

Cast: 3 female, 4 male

What people say:

"Halo successfully melds faith, drama and honour...very funny and quite moving." — Halifax Daily News

"Halo is theatre at its very best. There is not a false note in this high-wire act of comedy and tragedy with beautifully-written, believable characters who never lose their balance in script or performance." — The Chronicle Herald

"Brimming with humour and humanity, Halo retains a serious, poignant core that resonates deeply in a post 9/11 world. Beautifully constructed, it's a homegrown work that's slowly but surely establishing a North American-wide reputation." — HFX Entertainment Guide

About the Playwright:

Josh MacDonald is an award-winning Canadian playwright, screenwriter, and teacher. He graduated from Concordia University in Montréal where he specialized in theatre performance. He has written for CBC Television and Radio, the National Film Board, the Smithsonian Channel, Reelz, Blue Ant, and others. He has taught creative writing at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) and the Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University. Also a professional actor for stage and screen, he is based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

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