Red Like Fruit

Meet Lauren, a journalist in the midst of covering a high-profile domestic violence case while a growing sense of unease pervades her thoughts. Now meet Luke, whom Lauren has asked to tell her story to the audience. Through Luke’s voice, Lauren reflects on buried memories of sexual experiences from her adolescence. Are these experiences just a part of being a woman, or are they trauma? And does Luke have the authority to help her understand her own life?

From the Governor General’s Literary Award–winning playwright of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Hannah Moscovitch is at the height of her dramatic powers in this masterful provocation about the role men’s voices play in women’s stories. Through an ingenious metatheatrical device, Red Like Fruit courageously interrogates the messy contradictions and complexities of complicity, consent, power, and truth in the post #MeToo era.

• Red Like Fruit was inspired by reading a news story by journalist Maggie Rahr about a prominent member of the Liberal Party who had physically assaulted his long-time girlfriend (who also worked for the Liberal Party), was arrested, charged, and convicted of assault, and the conviction was hushed up within the party and the man was quietly rehired at his job.
• First produced by 2b theatre company at the Bus Stop Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from April 3 to 21, 2024.