The Crackwalker
by Judith Thompson
Theresa, who is worshipped by her boyfriend, is a mentally
challenged woman who is extremely sexy, but can never lose
her innocence. She does tricks at $5 each, is addicted to
Tim Horton donuts, lies without thinking and overflows with
endless kindness.
A tough, brilliant play about Theresa and three other down-and-outers
in Kingston. A peripheral fifth character, a destroyed Native
youth, is introduced to show us that even this quartet is
not quite the bottommost stratum of society.
The Crackwalker captures the music, the dialect and the unpretty
realities of the inner-city.
“Exudes vitality.” —Toronto Star
“Judith Thompson has captured the corrosive imagery
and exploding rhythms of life in Kingston’s lower depths,
where spiked heels are dangerous weapons and salvation is
driving a cab in Calgary. Thompson so clearly demonstrates
an ability to expose the deepest roots of the theatrical experience…
its language and humanity make the play a minor masterpiece.”
—Maclean’s
“The Crackwalker’s [characters] are mesmerizingly
real. These people live with you.” —The Globe
and Mail
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