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1) Sextet
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Music has long been considered beneficial in enhancing cognitive skills, and some have even suggested that music constitutes its own category of brain function; that it is, in fact, a separate and distinct type of thought. As is sex, which can produce, aside from children, complete dysfunction, confused mental activity - even, quite possibly, a compromised immune system, and certainly, in many cases, complete and utter memory loss - both before and...
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Lowell is no average teenager, and his grandfather, Hardy, is no conventional role model. Hardy may once have owned the abandoned orchard at the heart of town where they spend time trespassing and discussing ethics as if it were nothing more than a game. When inspector Milton shows up to investigate a murder, Lowell's truths are put to the ultimate test.
3) In Absentia
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Four seasons after her husband Tom's disappearance, Colette remains emotionally paralyzed, isolated in a country cottage. She waits in anguish, not knowing whether he is dead or alive, but clinging to hope. A young stranger in a jean jacket waves to her from the frozen lake--a sign? She emerges to give him her husband's parka--strangely, the boy has a likeness to Tom. What is the stranger's connection to her geologist husband, kidnapped more than...
4) 7 Stories
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In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man contemplating suicide on a seventh-storey building ledge confronts the stories of the people who live inside the building. These "seven stories" lead to a charming and surprising ending.
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In this riotously funny new comedy from Morris Panych, we meet Alma, a seasoned career shoplifter who prefers the five-finger discount over some lousy seniors' day deal. But it's not just an empty wallet that leads Alma to a life of petty crime it's also her strong convictions about social justice and economic inequality. Along for the ride is Phyllis, Alma's frazzled accomplice who lacks her mentor's cool demeanour and snappy comebacks. It's Alma...
6) Vigil
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A man returns after thirty years to sit with a relative on her deathbed. Kemp's problem is: she's not dying fast enough. Through Kemp's own errors and inattentiveness, the visit that he thinks will take a day or two stretches into a year. A play of mistaken identity, twisted circumstance, and surprising turns, this is one Vigil worth keeping.
7) Gordon
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Upon graduation from an educational institution that provides free room and board and is dedicated to freshman tutorials in applied criminology conducted by its post-graduate students, Gordon aims to build an innovative business with his former cellmate Carl. Then there’s the question of pregnant, sullen Deirdre. By accident or design, this dysfunctional trio confronts “the end of the line.”
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As Morris Panych's latest comedy opens, we hear Iris, a precocious girl of ten, saying: "These are the last few days of my childhood." The death of her goldfish, Amal, she is sure, has been announced by the air-raid sirens during the day's school drill. For Iris, there remain a few more days of life in a universe that is inherently ordered, where the spirit of her departed and ritually interred goldfish can, of course, be re-incarnated in a lost and...