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Relatively Harmless
by Jenny Munday
A darkly funny, touching play
about life, death, and the way in which a father's stroke paralyzes
an entire family. The patriarch of the Nightshade family, “the General,”
has suffered a stroke. Relatively Harmless portrays the challenges
of a man who is an invalid, through both his eyes and the eyes of his
family of caregivers. His illness reveals fissures in the family, past
and present. Relatively Harmless focuses our intellectual and
emotional beings on the “endless night” of an individual and a family
in crisis, illustrating the struggle between life as mundane and life
as weird.
“This riveting story about
a father’s stroke and the family that looks after him for 10 exhausting
years is an unforgettable piece of theatre.… Relatively Harmless
is theatre at its best. It brings us to life in the raw.”
—Amherst Daily News
“From the gasps and laughter
and rapt focus of the audience on opening night, I take it they, too,
were grateful that Live Bait [Theatre] brought this universal, unglamorous
experience out into public with such directness and integrity. “
—Sackville Tribune Post
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