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.