About the Play:

Winner of the 1989 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award

Moo is a full-length comedy by Sally Clark. When the wealthy but rebellious Moragh ("Moo") MacDowell meets the intriguing womanizer Harry Parker, she decides that nothing can keep them apart. She's right but that doesn't stop Harry from running away for the rest of his life. Moving back and forth through their lives we watch a couple who may not be able to live together but can't get away from each other either. Moo is an unconventional comedy about love and obsession.

Moo chronicles one woman's lifetime obsession with a man who did her wrong. The woman, Moragh (pet name "Moo") MacDowell, falls in love at the age of 19 with a handsome, selfish cad named Harry Parker. After a courtship that culminates in his injuring her with a shotgun, they embark on a brief marriage that ends when the philandering Harry has Moo committed to an insane asylum so he can marry his mistress. Their relationship doesn't end there, however. After she is released from the asylum, Moo spends much of the rest of her life pursuing this elusive womanizer, who tortures her with cryptic postcards that send her scurrying all over the world. The masochistic Moo can't help but continue to love Harry who, for his part, can't seem to forget Moo.

Moo premiered in 1988 at Alberta Theatre Projects' playRites Festival of new plays. It was produced in 1989 at Factory Theatre in Toronto and was nominated for the 1989 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in the same year. Since then the play has been produced at professional theatres across Canada and has been mounted by colleges and community theatres.

Cast: 5 female, 3 male

What people say:

"... very droll and very funny play.... Moo gets her man and tickles our funny bone." — The Globe and Mail

"Moo bristles with energy." — Times-Colonist (Victoria)

"...well written, laced with black humour and filled with a host of sharply drawn characters." — The Toronto Star

About the Playwright:

Sally Clark is a critically acclaimed Canadian playwright who was born in Vancouver, where she currently lives. She is best known for her frequently produced play Moo, and has been playwright-in-residence at Theatre Passe Muraille and the Shaw Festival. She is also an accomplished painter, director and filmmaker. Her plays have received a Chalmers Award, two Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, and a Governor General's Award nomination.