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The Whirlpool
adapted by Brian Quirt
Based on the novel The Whirlpool
by Jane Urquhart
In Niagara Falls in 1889, Fleda and
her husband David are to build a house on a height of land above the
Niagara Falls whirlpool. David is visited in his dreams by Laura Secord.
Fleda’s dreams reside in the wood surrounding the whirlpool, where
she first meets Patrick – a poet who enters her landscape and will
change her destiny. Meanwhile, in Niagara Falls, the young widow who
runs the local funeral home is struggling out of her mourning and coping
with her strange silent child. It’s summer, the season of reckless
stunts and river casualties, and as these four lives become entangled
by the whirlpool, darker and more sinister currents gain momentum and
ultimately release them from their obsessions.
“Director Brian Quirt, in adapting
the story for the stage, not only remains faithful to the aesthetic
spirit of the novel, he uses its ethereal quality to create a theatrical
work of haunting beauty.”
—Toronto Star
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