Footnotes

An Evening of Three Short Plays by Hannah Moscovitch

About the Production

In September of 2021, Matchstick Theatre presented an evening of short plays from acclaimed playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s early years:
Essay, USSR, and Mexico City.

The ‘Footnotes’ cycle was performed twice nightly at the Bus Stop Theatre from September 22nd-26th, 2021. Tickets were entirely Pay What You Can on a sliding scale, with all contributions being donated directly to The Bus Stop’s Inclusion Fund.

Production Team for Footnotes
Production Manager – Chelsea Dickie
Producer – Alex Mills
Costume Designer – Everette Fournier
Set Designer – Wes Babcock
Lighting Designer – Alison Crosby
Projection and Sound Designer – Jordan Palmer

Posters Designed by Sean Skerry (Skerrcraft Creative)
Photography by Stoo Metz (Stoo Metz Photography)

The team

Production Manager – Chelsea Dickie

Producer – Alex Mills

Costume Designer – Everette Fournier

Set Designer – Wesley Babcock

Lighting Designer – Alison Crosby

Projection and Sound Designer – Jordan Palmer

Posters Designed by Sean Skerry (Skerrcraft Creative)

Photography by Stoo Metz (Stoo Metz Photography)

some moments

Recognition

2022 Merritt Award Nominee – Outstanding Independent Production, 2022
2022 Merritt Award Nominee – Outstanding Performance by a Performer in a Leading Role, Ann-Marie Kerr
2022 Merritt Award Nominee – Outstanding Set Design, Wesley Babcock

About

Hannah Moscovitch

Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright and TV writer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the most produced living playwright in Canada as well as being widely produced internationally. Hannah has been honored with numerous awards for her work, including Canada’s highest literary honor the Governor General’s Award, and the prestigious international Windham-Campbell Prize administered by the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Hannah has been described as “Canada’s most prominent playwright” by the Globe & Mail, “the dark angel of Canadian theatre” by the Toronto Star, and “the wunderkind of Canadian theatre” by the CBC. Hannah’s music-theatre hybrid Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan) has garnered a landslide of critical praise, including more than fifty four- and five-star reviews, becoming a TimeOut and New York Times Critic’s Pick, winning both the Herald Angel and a Scotsburn Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival, receiving six Drama Desk Award nominations in New York, and touring the world since 2017.

Reviews

Morgan Mullin

The Coast

“Matchstick Theatre stages of three small Hannah Moscovitch plays, to giant results.”