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True Love Lies
True Love Lies
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Author: Brad Fraser Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 96 Pub. Date: 2010 ISBN-10: 0887549152 ISBN-13: 9780887549151 Cast Size: 2 female, 3 male
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About
the Play:
True Love Lies is a full-length black comedy by Brad
Fraser. A middle-aged couple have a loving relationship,
successful careers and a happy, normal life with their two teenage
children. Life couldn't be more perfect... until an
old flame comes back to town. Hidden relationships are
revealed and the safe veneer of home begins to splinter. True Love Lies is a
ruthless comedy that will leave you laughing... and wondering about your
own family secrets.
Unidentified Human Remains was
a huge national and international breakthrough hit
for Brad Fraser, and
True Love Lies meets
up with two of its characters – Kane and David – twenty years
later. Kane is now straight,
happily married to Carolyn and
living in mortgaged suburbia with two rebellious teenagers:
outgoing Madison and geeky Royce. The typical nuclear family. But
when Madison applies for a job at the new restaurant in town, Kane
and Carloyn find that a man they had long forgotten has just
re-entered their lives: Kane's ex-lover. Sparking a series of further
revelations, the sudden re-appearance of David outs
dad to his kids and forces the question, does true love ever die?
With the crackle of lightning fast one-liners, acidic exchanges and
wickedly witty characters, True Love Lies exposes
suppressed emotions and desires in everyone and the family must
renegotiate their relationships with each other and, ultimately,
redefine their family.
True Love Lies premiered in 2009 at the Royal Exchange
Theatre in Manchester, followed by its Canadian premiere at Factory
Theatre in Toronto. Since
then the play has been produced widely at
professional theatres across Canada and in the US.
Cast: 2 female, 3 male
What people say:
"Fraser is still writing with
the urban, contemporary vitality that makes his work so refreshing."
— Globe and Mail
"Brilliantly written … very
funny and entertaining." — British Theatre Guide
"Brad Fraser has
practically been the Royal Exchange's house playwright for the last
decade … Fraser's latest piece is … a brilliantly cutting
dissection of a supposedly ideal nuclear family founded on a tissue
of deceit." — The Guardian
About the Playwright:
Brad Fraser is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and
cultural commentator. He is one of the most widely produced Canadian
playwrights both in Canada and internationally. He began writing
plays while in high school, and is the nominee and recipient of many
awards for acting, directing and writing. He has also written
extensively for radio, television, film and the print media.
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