Thursday, January 1, 2009

Kate Hewlett - NOW Toronto: Human's Anonymous

At NOW Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada):

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HUMANS ANONYMOUS by Kate Hewlett, directed by Andrew Hachey (Anonymous Co-op). Factory Mainspace beginning January 8.

Humans Anonymous

The Next best things

Jon Kaplan

What if the man of your dreams turns out to be a woman?

That’s the surprising discovery for Ellen, the central character in Kate Hewlett’s Humans Anonymous.

She meets Smartypants17 on a non-gender-specific online dating service, and when she finally receives a signed email, the name at the bottom’s Lenny. Oops – the sender was bright chatterbox Jenny, who accidentally misspelled her name.

“Ellen’s never considered the possibility of being with a woman, and their meeting is disastrous,” says Hewlett, who premiered Humans Anonymous in the 2006 Fringe and followed it with last year’s hit The Swearing Jar ...

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Fringe of Toronto Theater Festival

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