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| Lindsey Clark (photo by Jacklyn Atlas) |
by Greg Bunker
Written and directed by Jordan Tannahill, Post Eden is a contemporary play peculiar because of its “live film” approach: it is a sort of dialogue between on-stage narrators/actors and their silent celluloid selves. The meandering plot follows a suburban family of estranged parents, their teenage daughter, and a weird neighbour boy over the course of a day. What ties them together is the dead family dog, Eden. She occasionally haunts Susan, the mother, and Ashley, the daughter, from her backyard grave. Ashley has come to believe Eden’s burial in the backyard has cursed the family. The neighbour boy, Jacob, convinces the daughter to rebury Eden in a nearby field where her soul will be freed and the curse will be lifted.
