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Red Like Fruit

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, whom 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.

Reviews

A simply delivered and devastating tale of the background radiation of sexism and sexual assault that becomes inextricably baked into womens identities


—Ilana Lucas, The Globe and Mail

An expert forensic search into the most ungraspable truths of womanhood


—Divine Angubua, NEXT Magazine

What makes this new play brilliant however 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

ltp classp1gtThe feminist movement needs a dose of medicine Hannah Moscovitchs latest workRed Like Fruitis a horse pill


—, Misha Bakshi Intermission Magazine

Awards

  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2024, Nominated
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    Dimensions:

    64 Pages
    8.38in * 5.37in * .25in
    1.00gr
    .25lb

    Published:

    September 09, 2025

    ISBN:

    9780369105646

    Book Subjects:

    DRAMA / Women Authors

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    Language:

    eng

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