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The Vic

The Vic
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
Author: Leanna Brodie
Publisher: Talonbooks (cover image may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 126
Pub. Date: 2002
ISBN-10: 0889224595
ISBN-13: 9780889224599
Cast Size: 8 female

About the Play:

The Vic has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues and Female/Female Scenes.

The Vic is a full-length drama by Leanna Brodie. Sex, fate, race, power, and the nature of cruelty. The Vic concerns eight women who are viewed through four intersecting storylines. Their lives are united by a tragic event, as they become involved in the search for the title character, an abducted teenage girl who has become a victim. Warning: black humour abounds.

The Vic explores the impact of violence and power while challenging the concept of victim. A young woman has disappeared at the edge of the city. Four women are drawn into the race to find her. As we watch them grid-search the fields for traces of her passing, we move through the shattering events of their recent lives that have left them as lost as she is. Mentor and protégé, lovers and sisters, they explore one burning question: who's got the power, and what is s/he going to do with it? Redolent with ambiguity, playing on the multiple meanings of victim, victory, and theatricality while undermining and interrogating these conventions, The Vic creates an ensemble of sharply drawn characters: eight ethnically-diverse women ranging in age from their teens to their fifties, each of them eager to claim the entitlement they feel their status as victim has "naturally" conferred upon them. A contemporary work torn from today's headlines, The Vic starts out where the popular media coverage leaves off: with the media's inability to penetrate the humanity of its subjects beyond the constructed veils of saints and sinners; evil perpetrators and innocent, "helpless" victims. It is an unsparing, often shocking, sometimes incredibly humorous dramatization of how the status of victim has become the most powerful and effective manipulative tool for social advancement in an age where all public discourse begins and ends with the populist media motto, "if it bleeds it leads."

The Vic premiered in 2000 at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. Since then it opened in 2004 at Theatre Erindale on the University of Toronto campus, in 2005 at the George Luscombe Theatre on the University of Guelph campus, in 2011 at Jericho Arts Centre in Vancouver, and in 2015 at the Women's Council House in Halifax. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops.

Cast: 8 female

What people say:

"This first play by Leanna Brodie… features the kind of dramatic electricity that announces the presence of a true playwright…. Leanna Brodie has made a promising debut, and her best work here shows real talent." — Toronto Star

"The drama follows four different yet related storylines involving eight women and explores the concepts of the victim, victimization and power dynamics... While the messages are somber, there are moments of humour and the overall tone is uplifting." — Halifax Chronicle-Herald

"A good play crawls under your skin and leaves you uncomfortably alive with possibility. The Vic does all this and adds an itch you don't want to stop scratching." — Review Vancouver

About the Playwright:

Leanna Brodie is a Canadian playwright, translator, and actor whose work has been performed across Canada, the USA, the UK, and New Zealand. She was the first Canadian invited to the ACT/Hedgebrook Women Playwrights' Festival in Seattle, and has twice been Playwright-in-Residence at the 4th Line Theatre in Millbrook, Ontario.

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