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Title: The Great Canadian Play
Review: This is Bruce McManus' masterpiece, the one where he got everything right. As Harold, the main character, says, "When you believe in things, it costs." As succeeding generations of new arrivals rent his house, and pay the costs of adapting to their new surroundings, they all must make the choice of what to keep and what to leave behind from their previous life. At once the most idealistic and most cynical person in the play, Harold pays the steepest price for standing by his beliefs.As we watch his journey, and those of his tenants, we learn poignant lessons in the meaning of life and the choices we must all make to live in a world not of our making. Like all the great plays in world literature, this play is a mixture of comic and tragic elements that blend seamlessly into an entrancing vehicle for performance.True-to-life characters, sharp, musical dialogue, and faultless cosntruction make this the great Canadian play.
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