About This Show
Factory Theatre presents the Toronto premiere of François Archambault’s award-winning The Leisure Society, in an English translation by Bobby Theodore. Factory’s Artistic Director Ken Gass directs.
The Leisure Society is a vicious and hilarious social satire that skewers North American consumerism. The play examines the life of a 30-something couple, Peter and Mary, who appear to have it all: love, careers, a beautiful house, one child as well as a project to adopt another, even a grand piano. But secretly, and almost unknown to them, their disaffection has grown. During the course of a highly-charged dinner party with recently-divorced Mark and his 21-year old ‘special friend’ Paula, both Mary and Peter find their lives suddenly dangled over an emotional precipice. Wryly observed and laced with stinging humor, this no holds-barred attack on the good life is one of the most powerful plays to come out of Quebec in recent years, receiving Montreal’s “Masque” for Best Original Play in 2003.
There is an additional performance Saturday, April 23 at 2pm.
Audience Advisory: Coarse Language. Contains material that some patrons may find offensive.