The Hands of its Enemy

Playwright: Mark Medoff
Director: Winston Sutton
Students: Fourth Studio, Year Two Group One

An obstinate theatre writer begins rehearsals of her new play, with a hotheaded director who did not take the time to read the script. In this work, author Mark Medoff, renowned for the award-winning play and film “Children of a Lesser God”, sheds light on the unique nature of the collaborative process as it transpires at a university resident theatre. Pressure mounts to get the show ready for its Opening, as the characters delve ever more deeply and unsparingly into the meaning of their shared enterprise. They must also, for better or worse, come to confront new truths about themselves. Employing an imaginative, Pirandelloesque play-within-a-play format, this compelling, suspenseful work brings together a group of volatile, creative people under conditions in which the dramatic elements of the play they are rehearsing are soon paralleled in the real lives of the participants.

Times

Performance Dates: Wednesday March 8th to Saturday March 11th
8:00 p.m.

Cast

Lion Arar – T. O. Finn
Chloé Bilodeau – Diane Newbury
Maria Digout – Marieta Yerby
Dawn Gleeson-Roy – Amanda Yerby
Théo Guy – Howard Bellman
Sarah Lotfi-Frooshani – Elma Pafco
Hana Kashaf – Amanda Yerby
Jasmine Mrenica – Elma Pafco
ANdré Morris-Mowat – T. O. Finn
Nicolas Ouellet – Mel Katzman
Mily Tchang-Leith – Diane Newbury
Amy Topolovec – Marieta Yerby
Ian Zentner – Skip Donner