Having previously written shows taking place in a community drama class or a male-dominated TV writers’ room, Baker now turns to a healing retreat in northern California
, opening the small but mighty Coal Mine Theatre ’s 10th season in Toronto , is the latest of American playwright Annie Baker ’s uncanny comedies set in a subculture of outsiders searching for some sort of spiritual breakthrough.Circle Mirror Transformation), Baker now turns to a healing retreat in northern California.
The rest of the female patients are older by a decade or more – and played by the veteran actresses Brenda Bazinet, Kyra Harper, Nancy Palk and Jean Yoon. They each have their own physical issues and personalities but also function as a kind of chorus, a collective reminder of how, in our society, it is almost expected for women of a certain age to suffer in some way or another without relief.
There is a man on site, too, played with a gorgeous goofiness by Ari Cohen, to upset the all-female atmosphere from time to time and showcase the more limited and competitive male linguistics of pain.On Being Illonwards, of female writers smartly dissecting the disorienting ways sickness interacts with language and identity and time.
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