The Clockmaker
by Stephen Massicotte
Winner of the 2009 Outstanding New Play award at the Betty Mitchell Awards for Calgary Theatre.
“WHO ARE YOU?” Monsieur Pierre (the immigration official) poses
his usual question, but Heinrich’s unusual answer sets in motion a
metaphysical rollercoaster. Why would a simple statement of name and
profession bring so much attention to an unassuming clockmaker? Maybe
because that’s two more things than anyone else in this place remembers…?
Soon, Heinrich is reminding his new friend Frieda of memories she’s
forgotten and even summoning up a few of his own—of forbidden love,
and crimes he may or may not have committed. Is it possible to be guilty
of being about to commit a crime, as Monsieur Pierre suspects?
And why wouldn’t one recall something so significant as premeditating
murder? Armed with a newfound-yet-familiar love for each other, Heinrich
and Frieda set about solving this Kafkaesque puzzle.
The Clockmaker may seem
like little more than a love story set inside a murder-mystery-to-be,
but it just might end up exposing the very truth of existence itself.
“Stephen Massicotte’s charming
new play is the best metaphysical mystery and romance to hit Canadian
stages since John Mighton’s Possible Worlds.” —J. Kelly
Nestruck, The Globe and Mail
“…a brilliant and wonderfully funny (though not always so funny)
romantic mystery about memory and time…” —Bob Clark, The Calgary
Herald
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