About the Play:

Love and Human Remains is a full-length dramatic comedy by Brad Fraser. This psycho-thriller follows the lives of several sexually frustrated "thirty-somethings" who try to learn the meaning of love during a time in which a serial killer is terrorizing the city. Love and Human Remains will take your perception of love, devotion, and companionship and set it ablaze.

Love and Human Remains is an edgy, provocative, dark-humoured drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. This critically-acclaimed Canadian classic explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centres on David, a failed actor watching his twenties tick away. He shares a place with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, whom he dated before coming out as gay. Together, with Candy who dabbles in both same-sex and heterosexual affairs, his best friend Bernie, and a psychic dominatrix friend Benita, David and Candy encounter a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer. Love and Human Remains is a compelling study of young adults groping for meaning in a senseless world.

Originally titled Unidentified Human Remains and the Nature of True Love, the play was first produced in 1989 at Alberta Theatre Projects during its National playRites Festival of New Plays in Calgary. Despite the controversial nature of the play, word spread quickly and every performance was standing room only despite its violence, nudity, frank dialogue and sexual explicitness. The play made its American debut in 1991 at the now-defunct Halsted Theatre Center in Chicago. It ran for over a year and received rave reviews and continued to New York where it was wildly celebrated and named one of the Top 10 Plays of the Year by Time Magazine. Since then, Love and Human Remains has been produced in every major Canadian city, as well as internationally. It received the London Evening Standard Award for best new play and the Los Angeles Critics' Award.

Cast: 3 women, 4 men

What people say:

"…off-Broadway's newest and best play… it stunningly blends punk popular appeal and poetic power." — Time

"Pungent dialogue and highly graphic sexuality, the play repeatedly arrests the audience's attention." — New York Times

"Superbly structured, punctuated with wit, topical… poignant." — Canadian Theatre Review

"…a solid play evolving into what theatergoers around the globe will attest as being a great play. …this mind twister for the twisted leaves audiences wanting more." — TorontoStage.com

About the Playwright:

Brad Fraser is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and cultural commentator. He is one of the most widely produced Canadian playwrights both in Canada and internationally. He began writing plays while in high school, and is the nominee and recipient of many awards for acting, directing and writing. He has also written extensively for radio, television, film and the print media.