ISBN: 9781772012668
Pages: 224 pp
Pub. Date: December 17 2020
Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" x 0.5625"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Non-Fiction / SOC060000

  • DRAMA / Canadian
  • DRAMA / Women Authors
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment

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Asking For It
By Ellie Moon

Asking for It and What I Call Her presents two exciting, thought-provoking plays from rising Canadian theatre star Ellie Moon. Written in the wake of the Jian Ghomeshi scandal, Asking for It considers gender roles and the various ways sexual consent is understood personally, culturally, and legally.What I Call Her explores female generational rage, the loneliness of holding on to one's own truth, and the gaps in how people perceive and understand the world they inhabit. As Marcha Schabas writes in her foreword, Moon's "dialogue explodes with an intellectual energy and psychological acuity rarely seen on Canadian stages." These are rewarding, complex plays from a "smart and irreverent artist whose career is just taking off."

Asking for It, cast of 2 women and 2 men

What I Call Her, cast of 2 women and 1 man

“A bracing pleasure … A sly, intelligent piece of documentary theatre borne of Ghomeshi-gate.”
—the Globe and Mail

“You might call What I Call Her something between insufferable and incredible... the psychological depth wrought from this unbearableness has a magnetic pull [which] is the mark of some serious art.”—Martha Schabas

“an incredible accomplishment…vital theatre​.”—Intermission

“Moon develops this conversation with bare truth and passion. She investigates where our anger comes from, or our fear, and how quickly we can change from the person we think ourselves to be... An excellent play that provokes thought and consideration.”—Amy Strizic