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The Optimists

The Optimists
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Morwyn Brebner
Publisher: Scirocco Drama
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 96
Pub. Date: 2005
ISBN-10: 0920486886
ISBN-13: 9780920486887
Cast Size: 2 female, 2 male

About the Play:

Finalist for the 2006 Governor General's Award for Drama (Canadian Equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize)

The Optimists is a full-length dramatic comedy by Morwyn Brebner. A long held friendship is tested when two couples – one married, one engaged – travel to Las Vegas for a wedding and are forced to confront the different life paths each has taken. Questions of class, mismatched partnerships and the messy nature of love challenge each character, but a spirit of hope permeates.

The Optimists explores dysfunctional relationships in this emotionally charged dramatic comedy set in "Sin City". Where else would you get married at sunrise with killer hangovers and then go to Denny's for breakfast? Four Canadians find themselves in a Vegas Motel room. Two plan to wed and the other two are already married. It's the night before the chapel wedding and the promise of "happily ever after." The old friends confront their regrets, lies, learn of past betrayals and disappointments. "Let's believe that the half of our life not yet lived is the good half." Will hope be the elusive wild card? The chance for hopes and dreams to come true provides the backdrop for Morwyn Brebner's humorous look at love.

The Optimists premiered in 2004 at the Dr. Betty Mitchell Theatre by Theatre Junction in Calgary and was nominated for the Betty Mitchell Award for Best New Play and was a Finalist for the Governor General's Award for Drama. Since then the play has been successfully staged at several professional theatres across Canada and has been mounted in fringe festivals.

Cast: 2 female, 2 male

What people say:

"…very funny… Brebner has a strong sense of the surreal and ludicrous in people's lives…." — ffwd Weekly (Calgary)

"The Optimists ... is a brilliant and frenetic tale of loser lovers facing up to their true selves under the harsh glare of a Las Vegas night." — The Globe and Mail

About the Playwright:

Morwyn Brebner is a Canadian screenwriter and award-winning playwright. Born in Cardiff, Wales, she grew up on Ottawa, and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada's playwriting program. She is the creator and showrunner of CBC's hit series Coroner, and co-created Saving Hope (CTV/ION), on which she was an executive producer and showrunner for the first three seasons. She also co-created the ABC and Global Television drama series Rookie Blue.

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