The Drawer Boy

September 9 - October 5, 2003

Regional Premiere

Heartfelt Comedy
By Michael Healey
Directed by Jane Page

TIME Magazine picked this play as one of the Ten Best of2001. Variety calls it, "Heartfelt honesty and the kind ofstorytelling good theatre is all about." Two Canadian farmers, World War II veterans and boyhood friends, whose lives are based on stories and ritual, share a near-mythical tale about love and loss after the war.Their lives are comically disrupted when a young actorshows up at their door wanting to live and work withthem as research for a play about farming. As he becomesa part of their lives, their hidden story becomes a part ofhis play and the lines between theater and life, and memoryand reality, become blurred. Heartbreak and levity mixin this award-winning play about storytelling and how it iswoven into the fabric of our lives.