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Little One and Other Plays
Little One and Other Plays
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Author: Hannah Moscovitch Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 128 Pub. Date: 2015 ISBN-10: 177091336X ISBN-13: 9781770913363
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About
the Play:
Finalist for the 2011
Governor General's Award for Drama
(Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize).
The collection Little One and Other Plays contains three
one-act plays from acclaimed playwright Hannah Moscovitch.
Finalist for the 2011
Governor General's Award for Drama,
Little One follows adopted siblings and their neighbours, a
man and his mail-order bride. In Other People's Children, a
wealthy couple's live-in nanny exposes the fragility of their
marriage. In This World looks at what friendship means to two
teenaged girls from vastly different social backgrounds. Little
One can be – and often is – performed as a stand-alone
one-act (popular choice for fringe festivals), but has been performed
together with Other People's Children as a double bill to
create a full evening of entertainment.
Little One is a chilling psychological thriller that
follows the haunting stories of two adopted siblings Aaron and Claire
– one the definition of normal, the other deeply disturbed and
unpredictable – and the strange lives of their neighbours, a man
and his mail-order bride. When 4-year-old Claire is adopted into the
family, 6-year-old Aaron has to learn to "love" his new
monster of a sister. Told through the now adult voices of these
adopted siblings, Little One weaves a story of childhood
horror and teenage trauma into a twisted, wryly funny, and ultimately
haunting experience. One that asks how long you'd let a psychopath
control your life ... and what you'd do to regain it. (First produced
in 2011 at Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, ON; Cast: 1 woman, 1 man)
In Other People's Children, wealthy young power couple Ben
and Ilana hire Sati, a live-in Tamil nanny, to care for their baby
daughter, but Sati ends up being more than a caretaker, exposing the
fragility of Ben and Ilana's marriage. Is she filling the holes in
their relationship, or widening cracks that will shatter their
family? (First produced in 2011 at the Tarragon Extra Space, Toronto,
ON; Cast: 2 women, 1 man)
In This World is a complex exploration of race, class and
sex as experienced by two teenage girls in an urban high school. The
play deals with violence as well as sexual and racial politics. Bijou
and Neyssa are two girls who share the same high school and
volleyball team, but who are from two completely different worlds.
Bijou is from a privileged background. Neyssa is a recent Jamaican
immigrant struggling to fit in. The play opens following an
altercation between the two friends. Neyssa has punched Bijou in the
face for no apparent reason. Both girls sit in detention without
supervision, but are unable to discuss the problems between them.
Deep down both girls want what the other has, but each refuses to
give up certain things – Neyssa her pride and Bijou her personal
freedom. Unfortunately for both, navigating the world is difficult
even under the best circumstances. The world and its rules can change
when least expected, leaving us to contend with our beliefs and our
choices. (First produced in 2009 at Youtheatre, Montréal, QC; Cast:
2 women)
What people say:
"[Little One
is] a psycho thriller, in fact, but a witty, smart and insidious
one that owes more to Roman Polanski than to A Nightmare on Elm
Street." — The Globe and Mail
"Hannah Moscovitch
is our most competent playwright, and that's not faint praise."
— National Post
"[Other People's
Children is] a triptych of emotional horror, painted with
a kind of precise detail normally reserved for tranquil still life
paintings." — The Toronto Sun
About the Playwright:
Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright. Her
plays have been produced in Australia, Japan, Greece, Austria,
Germany, Ireland, Britain and the United States, as well as across
Canada. She has written for TV and radio, and was a contributing
writer to the CBC hit radio drama series Afghanada for five years.
She has won multiple awards for her work, was the first Canadian
woman and Canadian playwright to win the prestigious Windham-Campbell
Prize administered by Yale University and the first playwright to
ever win the Trillium Book Award. She has been nominated for the
Governor General's Award, the Siminovitch Prize and the prestigious
Susan Smith Blackburn
Prize honouring the best English-language women writers worldwide. |
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