Haven
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Winner of the 2019 Governor-General's Award for French-language Drama
Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother's tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain childhood memories from living in war-torn Yugoslavia. When a sudden sinkhole in front of Elsie's apartment building swallows a car that happens to contain a copy of Elsie's mother's novel, their paths cross, and the two are quickly drawn to each other's search for fulfillment.
Haven is a beautiful portrait of how certain life events can be incredibly isolating, and what happens when people come into our lives when we need them most.
Neil Blackadder
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NEIL BLACKADDER is Associate Professor of Theatre at Knox College, where he teaches dramatic literature, theatre history, and dramaturgy. His work has appeared in New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre History Studies, and American Theatre.
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