(photo credit: AmandaLynne Ballard)
Yup...it's here. After all the talk, after all the squabbling (read some of it here), after all the drama offstage (right), the play about a Prime Minister who may or may not be our own Mr. Harper, has arrived to be dissected, thrown in people's faces, generate I-told-you-so's or, dammit, "merely" to delight!
It is, of course, Proud by Michael Healey. Miles Potter is directing Mr. Healey himself (as the PM). Tom Barnett returns to act in this third of the trilogy (which includes the previous Generous and Courageous) and is joined by Maev (The Penelopiad) Beatty and Jeff (Clybourne Park) Lillico.
The story? A new MP is taught in the ways of good ol' fashioned Canadian right-wing conservatism and all the loveliness that entails. But don't expect holier-than-thou. As Mr. Potter wrote yesterday at CharPo-Canada "there is something wonderfully silly about rehearsing a play that, looked at from one angle is a political examination, and looked at from another is a sex farce. How to describe experienced actors seriously discussing the best angle to stare at someone's breasts? Or to safely have sex on a desk?"
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