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Capture Me
by Judith Thompson
JERRY:
“When I left him he said he would give me seven years of freedom and
then he would come and he would carve my heart out, like those teenage
soldiers in Sierra Leone. (beat) It’s been seven years, exactly.”
Judith Thompson writes with passionate
intelligence about the things that matter most. Juxtaposing lived
and imagined realities of hate and love, fear and hope, quirky
humour and bitter knowledge, Capture Me takes the kind of risks that
keeps theatre powerfully alive and kicking. Connecting the lives of
a kindergarten teacher, the traumatized Islamic immigrant with whom
she falls in love, the insanely abusive former husband who is stalking
her, and the icy, mortally ill mother whom she struggles to understand,
Thompson achieves an intensity that owes as much to the jagged poetry
of her writing as to the stark conflicts she stages. Capture Me
is crucial reading for all those who like their theatre as strong as
it comes.
—Janice Kulyk Keefer
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