During the pandemic, Michael Ross Albert grappled with a familiar kind of stress for many Torontonians: the uphill battle of trying to buy a home in the city.
Cast members Aurora Browne, left, Peter Fernandes, centre, Di Zio, right, along with director Paolo Santalucia, back centre right, and writer Michael Ross Albert, back centre left, pose for a portrait for their new show called"The Bidding War" in Toronto, Oct. 30. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
"I was playing it cool and just pretending like this was totally a normal transaction. I got about four steps before I just puked all over Bay Street.” The play takes aim at Toronto’s housing crisis with a story set during a frantic, one-day bidding war over the city’s last affordable home. As the clock runs out, the fight for ownership devolves into chaos, laying bare the lengths to which people will go in their frantic quest for a foothold in the market.
Browne says she was excited to join the 11-person cast, which is “unusually large” for a Canadian production, given the costs of staging plays with big teams. “It's getting exponentially harder to live in the city and to make a life in it. If it keeps going in that direction, it's just going to bring out some of the worst in people, and that could lead to more exploitation,” says the actor, who played the lead in “One Man, Two Guvnors” at this year’s Shaw Festival.
“I just remember the bloodlust that rose in that period of talking to my partner and saying, ‘Whatever we need to do, we’ve got to do it because we've got two weeks to make the biggest financial decision of our lives.’”
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