What shines when memory fades away? Clara and Patrick meet in a nursing home for
veterans. They fall in love, rekindling what might
have been a war-time romance. Clara and Patrick’s
divorced and jaded children, in a generational
variation on Romeo and Juliet, intervene to prevent
the match, on the grounds their parents are not
in control of their faculties.
Perhaps the greatest irony
is that Clara’s son Donald is a scientist
fascinated by memory, who argues that what distinguishes
humans from machines is our capacity to forget.
Do not miss this touching
and comical story of the power of love to invigorate
every human, by one of Canada’s most poetic
playwrights: winner of the Dora Mavor Moore,
Chalmers and Governor General’s
awards.