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The Lady in the Red Dress
by David Yee
Max, a lawyer for the Canadian
Department of Justice, is losing his mind. In one nightmarish week,
Max has been shot, punched, stabbed, led on a wild goose chase, and
has even seen a ghost. All of this was set in motion by Sylvia, an elusive
figure who enters his life and charges Max with the task of finding
Tommy Jade, a Chinese immigrant from the 1920s. Dragged further into
the history of the Chinese-Canadian struggle for redress and into the
lives of those involved, Max discovers that not only is his life in
danger, but also his son’s.
A modern-day noir that draws
from both Haruki Murakami and Frank Miller, The Lady in the Red Dress
is a darkly comic story about the skeletons in our closets and the consequences
of our inactions told by one of Canada’s most-promising young playwrights.
“Resulting in a play that's
part didactic narrative about the plight of Chinese Canadian immigrants,
part magical realist fantasy, and part violent, hard-boiled noir.”
—Torontoist
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