It was great to be able to catch it on it’s first run, since by the sounds of it the Ottawan writer, Hanna Moscovitch, is becoming a big deal. It seemed like there were a lot of breaks in the narrative to re-stage the set – they jump locations a lot during the play, which seemed unnescessary, but for the most part the scene changes were pretty quick and subtle.

They did a profile on the true-story history of the play on CBC a day before we went to see it which unfortunately ruined some of the surprises for me, although it’s not difficult to imagine how a play set in a jewish orphanage in Germany-occupied Poland is going to go. Without being really obvious about the ending – it definitely holds up to my theory that playwrights are the source of all depression on earth. The story overall is uplifting, though, and the ending’s quite powerful. Worth going to see!

(Big shoutout to Jen for the tickets, by the way! Superstar!)