About the Play:

Post-Democracy is a full-length drama by Hannah Moscovitch. It's set in a boardroom, where a quartet of the business elite are caught up in a potentially ruinous scandal during a business deal in another country. Post-Democracy is a darkly comic look at how corporations have accumulated greater power than ostensibly democratic nations.

Post-Democracy sees four powerful executives brainstorming over how to circumvent a scandal in a foreign country. Power. Privilege. Corruption. Welcome to the world of the 1%, the corporate elite, the "C-suite" – the "king-makers" whose influence flows through every aspect of our lives virtually unnoticed. A world managed by payoffs, press releases, NDAs, and company policies. What happens to morality when human beings have limitless power? When a CEO and his top executives are on a business trip for a major deal, a damaging company sex scandal has broken on the news back home. As the pressure to complete the deal mounts, more damaging secrets come to the surface, endangering the CEO's company, his family, and his legacy. In this searing look at upper-class privilege, Post-Democracy asks, what does it take to confront corruption?

Post-Democracy premiered in 2021 at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg.

Cast: 2 female, 2 male

What people say:

"Subject matter that could feel forced in less-deft hands is rescued from an HR manual and brought to painful, vivid life." — The Coast

About the Playwright:

Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright and TV writer. Her plays have been widely produced across Canada, as well as in the United States, Britain, Europe, Australia and Japan. She has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award for drama (Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), and the prestigious Windham Campbell Literary Prize administered by Yale University (she is the first Canadian playwright to win the prize). She's twice been a finalist for the Governor General's Award, and twice for the Siminovitch Prize, as well as the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize honouring the best English-language women writers worldwide.