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Possible Worlds
Possible Worlds
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Last Copy!
Author: John Mighton Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 168 Pub. Date: 1998 ISBN-10: 0887545629 ISBN-13: 9780887545627 Cast Size: 1 female, 4 male
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About the Play:
HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are
still available.
Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
(Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize)
Possible Worlds is a full-length black comedy by John Mighton.
Part science fiction, part murder mystery, and part love story about the idea of parallel universes and a character who gets stuck between them. Possible Worlds is a about communication, the obstacles we put in the way and the extent we'll go to to overcome them.
Possible Worlds is about a 'risk analyst' who believes he can live in more than one place at the same time. In a series of parallel
encounters George meets his lover Joyce, who either recognizes him or
doesn't. The play opens when two detectives discover his corpse,
minus its brain, and launch an investigation. The two lovers
experience a baffling series of relationships together, each one just
slightly and tantalizingly different, as Detectives Berkley and
Williams track a serial killer who appears to be stealing brains. The
play uses parallel narratives to speculate about questions of
identity and the role of imagination in love.
Possible Worlds premiered in 1990 at Canadian Stage in Toronto. It has subsequently been performed across the country and internationally.
Cast: 1 female, 4 male
What people say:
"Possible Worlds
is a rich and poignant script about the infinite realities that lie
in potential... always engrossing theatre. The result is an evocative
and subtle theatrical event that lingers in the mind." —
Now Magazine
"…every scene is just
dazzling … This is like a double expresso for your mind."
— Richard Ouzounian on CBC: Later the Same Day
"Mighton is one of those rare
dramatists who can write persuasively about patterns of thought —
scientific, social, ethical — without betraying their complexity or
obstructing their accessibility." — Theatre
Magazine, Yale School of Drama
About the Author:
John Mighton, OC is an acclaimed Canadian playwright. His
plays have been performed across Canada, as well as in Europe, Japan,
and the United States, and have won a number of national awards
including the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, the Dora
Award, the Chalmers Award and the Siminovitch Prize. He is also a
professor of mathematics, and is the founder of JUMP (Junior
Undiscovered Math Prodigies), an educational charity providing free
tutoring to elementary-level students. He consulted on the
mathematical models for the film Good Will Hunting, in which
he acted a small role as a graduate student in mathematics. In 2010,
he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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