Remember the Night

by Daniel Thau-Eleff

Directed by Arne MacPherson

Set Design by Heather Arabsky

Lighting Design by Libid Zyla-Harder

Featuring

Andrew Cecon, Claire Therese Friesen, Doreen Brownstone, Jeff Strome, Patricia Hunter, Ray Strachan, Toby Hughes

with live music by

Patrick Keenan and Ian La Rue

Fred Mandelbaum is depressed and lonely and worried about the future – not just his own, but the future of industrial society. Rosemary (Fred’s non-Jewish mother in the Jewish old folks home) has Alzheimer’s – her past is disappearing, and Fred’s worried about that too.

Fred has no friends. The only person he can talk to is a prostitute named Cyndi, whom he hires for companionship, conversation, maybe even love. And blow jobs.

The play begins when a polite and violent cop knocks on Fred’s door:

Cyndi has been murdered and Fred is a suspect.

As the Cop and Fred each try to unravel the murder, we meet Mrs Himmelstein, Rosemary's senile friend, and TJ and Alistair, two lowlife drug dealers with a lugubrious propensity towards superfluous vocabulary.

And throughout the play, Fred turns to the audience and reflects on the ultimate metaphor for 21st century isolation: Winnipeg.