news | Thursday November 21, 2024

Withrow Park by Morris Panych Has Arrived!

Hot new play alert! Withrow Park by the award-winning playwright Morris Panych has arrived. Set in Toronto, three people gaze out their living room window as the days pass. Across the street in Withrow Park, life goes on – or is it a dream?

Then comes a knock at the door. Time has found them, hiding in plain sight. Or possibly it’s just a man in a wrinkled suit. But Janet, Marion, and Arthur must act now or forever be devoured by their own indifference. They can no longer live on the periphery of their own lives. They must invite the young man to dinner.

An excerpt from Withrow Park:

“ARTHUR
Look at that sad creature.

MARION
The man?

ARTHUR
No, that whippet. He just wants to go hang out with other dogs,
but no. He’s stuck with some woman on a phone.

MARION
How do you know what he wants?

MARION takes up her book.

ARTHUR
It’s what every dog wants.

MARION
It’s better if you can’t do something you want. Gives you
something to long for. I bet he’s perfectly happy wishing he
could run free but not doing it. And anyway, he doesn’t look
very intelligent. He’d run right into a car.

ARTHUR
Right into a car.

A mantle clock rings five times.

ARTHUR
It’s Janet. Look. She’s over there. She’s – (suddenly alarmed)
talking to him.

MARION
The whippet?

ARTHUR
The man.”

Full of Panych’s trademark humour, Withrow Park wryly tugs at anxieties around aging, isolation, and the constantly shifting world around us. Pick up your copy here.