Oh the Humanity, a play written by American playwright Will Eno, will showcase this fall at the Fringe Festival for the second time since 2010. It has been locally produced by UBC grads Maryanne Renzetti and Becky Shrimpton with Staircase Theatre.
This year, Staircase Theatre will have new director, Brian Cochrane, who is another UBC graduate, a new stage manager, and includes a Jessie-award winning star, all of which will contribute to the new angle of the main themes of this play.
Described as “intelligent, witty and dark comedy,” Oh the Humanity has five settings throughout the show. Each is different from the others but pulls on similar concepts for the audience to determine.
The different scenarios are: a coach holding a press conference to explain his team’s losing season, two people trying a video dating service (that also share the same stage), a photographer re-shooting a graphic war-time photo without original source material, a man and a woman sharing the same car but having different notions of their destinations – a funeral or a christening – and finally a flight attendant who has to explain to crash victims’ families what happened.
This dark comedy is sure to hit you right where it hurts – in the humanity.
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