Event

String of Pearls

The directorial debut from Canadian actor Alison Brooks brings us the first Canadian theatrical performance of Michele Lowes award winning play, String of Pearls. Both timeless and timely, this production is an action based response to the #metoo movement, but ultimately offers an insight into individuals and why they make the choices they do.

As the pearls pass from one character to the next, the audience is taken on an intimate journey that spans several decades and generations from the 1960s to the present day. Alongside the pearls, the audience is an essential element within the storytelling as the bearer of treasured revelations and confessions through an affectionate break of the fourth wall. Four exemplary and talented actors play 27 characters, each with unique lives. Each character requests the audience to be their confidants through rich monologues, simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious. The monologues centre on love, loss, betrayal, lust, birth, and death; sexuality, racism, dementia, and immigration.