Perfect Pie

Canadian playwright, Judith Thompson, believes that real theatre reveals the formidable dragon moving beneath the surface of the world we live in, and that theatrical performance is that dragon breathing its fire into the audience. In Perfect Pie two friends, estranged for more than fifteen years, face the formidable dragon of a past filled with a secret and the resultant chain of tragic events that brought about their separation. The women are brought back together at the insistence of Patsy – a housewife and baking enthusiast, who recognizes the highly successful actress, Francesca, as Marie, her long-time missing friend. Their youthful selves are dramatized in glimpses of their early lives in small town Northern Ontario. Patsy had been pretty popular, whereas Marie, the outsider, was targeted by her classmates and made the victim of vicious harassment. But what was the mysterious tragedy that drove Marie out of town? Reminiscences soon give way to undercurrents of blame and recrimination as each woman struggles to understand the other’s choices, and through them the tragic events of the last evening they spent together. Perfect Pie is a moving testament to the healing power of friendship, and it promotes social awareness for people young and old about the crushing power of ignorance and hatred.