The Factory Theatre has a great little program called "Performance Spring," showcasing some outstanding new plays from some great companies from across Canada. One that should be of interest to y'all is The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, written by Yann Martel. The play is the story of two friends coping with AIDS in the mid-1980s, a time when an HIV positive diagnosis was an almost immediate death sentence. Eric Goulem plays both the narrartor and Paul the unseen character. As Paul struggles to come to terms with his inevitable death, to palliate him, the Narrator invents a game in which the two of them will create a 'secret; story of the Roccamatios, a Finnish family of Italian extraction.
I think it's his first play, and from what I've heard it's pretty great. Oh, and the company that is producing the piece (Infinitheatre), produced one of my own plays last fall and they did a great job so... yeah... check it out!
www.factorytheatre.ca
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