Christian Laurin and Yanna McIntosh Photo by Bruce Zinger.
THIS is truly a state of being…
by Dave Ross
Melissa James Gibson’s THIS opened at Canadian Stage last night. It’s the first time her work has been shown in Toronto, but I hope we get to see more soon. THIS is, to quote from the program “a play about ‘this’: the designated ‘what I am in the middle of,’ precluding distance, perspective, appreciation, evaluation. It is my reality here and now, this thing I am living, this ‘not anything else’. These words are a bit meta for my liking, but they so accurately portray the effect of this production, which plays with the physical theatre space while exploring ‘this’ — the state of being for and between each character.
