Philippa Domville and Elisa Moolecherry. Photo by Ingrid Johansson.
Written by | Roland Schimmelpfennig
Directed and Designed by | Ross Manson
Translated by | David Tushingham
Music by | Maza Meze
Starring | Philippa Domville, Michael Healey, David Jansen, Elisa Moolecherry & Zaib Shaikh.
Produced by Volcano at the SummerWorks Festival, Toronto, August 6-14, 2004 (in partnership with the Goethe Institute, Toronto) Toronto Premiere.
Winner of the NOW Audience Choice Award (Best Production), Summerworks Festival, Toronto, 2004. Broke 14 years of Festival Box Office Records.
A new German play that mixes occidental Western Urban apartment life with oriental Magic Realism a la Scherazade.
"The kind of piece that will linger in the memory, long after others have faded - Cleverly staged by Volcano's Ross Manson, the tension build suntil the end, which is shattering (figuratively as well as literally). It's superior stuff." Toronto Star
"uniformly stellar... Ross Manson's shrewd focus, allows the beauty and magic of the text to dazzle." Eye Weekly
"note-perfect" NOW Magazine
