Red Like Fruit - by Hannah Moscovitch (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

An expert forensic search into the most ungraspable truths of womanhood. --Divine Angubua, NEXT Magazine

Meet Lauren, a journalist in the midst of covering a high-profile domestic violence case while a growing sense of unease pervades her thoughts. Now meet Luke, who Lauren has asked to tell her story to the audience. Through Luke's voice, Lauren reflects on buried memories of sexual experiences from her adolescence. Are these experiences just a part of being a woman, or are they trauma? And does Luke have the authority to help her understand her own life?

From the Governor General's Literary Award-winning playwright of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Hannah Moscovitch is at the height of her dramatic powers in this masterful provocation about the role men's voices play in women's stories. Through an ingenious metatheatrical device, Red Like Fruit courageously interrogates the messy contradictions and complexities of complicity, consent, power, and truth in the post #MeToo era.

Review Quotes

A simply delivered and devastating tale of the background radiation of sexism and sexual assault that becomes inextricably baked into women's identities.
--Ilana Lucas, The Globe and Mail

What makes this play brilliant is not merely the story itself, but how that story is told. Moscovitch forces her audience to confront their own prejudice. She asks us to question who we believe--and why.
--Joshua Chong, Toronto Star

The feminist movement needs a dose of medicine...Red Like Fruit is a horse pill.
--Misha Bakshi, Intermission Magazine

About the Author

Hannah Moscovitch is one of Canada's most prominent playwrights. She has written sixteen plays, including East of Berlin, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, and This is War, and she has been honored with numerous awards, among them the Governor General's Literary Award, the Nova Scotia MasterWorks Arts Award, and the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. Hannah's music-theatre hybrid Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan) became a TimeOut and New York Times Critic's Pick, winning both the Herald Angel and a Scotsman Fringe First awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and receiving six Drama Desk Award nominations in New York, crossing the 400-performance line in the process. In television, Hannah is co-creator, executive producer, and head writer of Little Bird alongside showrunner Jennifer Podemski, which has garnered a landslide of awards and critical praise, including the Séries Maria Prix Public (or Audience Award) and thirteen Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Drama Series. Most recently, Hannah was co-executive producer on seasons 1 and 2 of AMC's hit series Interview With The Vampire.