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Anniversary
by Carol Shields and Dave Williamson
Anniversary
is built on a triple irony: one couple in the play are married and pretending
to be close to separation. Another couple, who are separated, are pretending
to be married. And the third irony is that the separated couple are
still emotionally together, while the married couple have already emotionally
separated ... Tom’s passion for the environment, Dianne’s redemption
through crafts and coffee, Ben’s and Shirley’s confusion over their
private/public lives, Garth’s attempt to mask his pain with irony
— all of the characters in this play behave foolishly at times, but
each of these characters deserves a presence on that narrow and difficult
balancing beam of respect and humour. — from the playwrights’ introduction
“Anniversary is a
compact little gem of a play ... tense, comic and poignant.” —
Winnipeg Free Press
“The intelligence and honest
emotion ... captures all the veiled and kissy-kissy artifice of upwardly
mobile suburbia.” — Toronto Star
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