Kayak

Characters: 1 male, 2 female

Simple Set

Winner of the 2010 Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest

Alone on a vast stretch of water, Annie Iversen recounts the strange chain of events that left her stranded in her son's old kayak. A doting suburban mother, Annie is blindsided when her son, Peter, falls in love with Julie, a passionate environmental activist. Unable to reconcile herself to Julie's radical worldview, Annie struggles desperately to keep Peter from falling further into the young woman's dangerous world. Climate change, S'mores, SUVs, and Noah's Ark are all onstage as Annie sets out to save her son, and unwittingly throws herself into the path of events larger than she ever could have imagined. Touching and provocative, Kayak invites us all to confront our choices in the landscape of the growing environmental crisis.

"Gripping, heartbreaking." -Lynn Slotkin, CBC Radio

"A trio of vivid, memorable characters." - Jon Kaplan, NOW Magazine

"Stellar, insightful writing." - Dave Deveau, Plank Magazine