Mexico City

a play by Hannah Moscovitch

About the Production

Can a vacation to Mexico salvage a failing marriage? Mexico City is a satiric romance that explores tourism as voyeurism and the battle of the sexes.

Mexico City tells the story of a 1960s era couple trying to rekindle the fire in their relationship by going to Mexico on holiday. The play grapples with themes of whiteness and tourism as a form of fetishization and colonization, through the lens of a bickering husband and wife on vacation.

Poster Design by Sean Skerry (Skerrcraft Creative)
Photography by Stoo Metz (Stoo Metz Photography)

Matchstick introduced Mexico City as the third show in their presentation of ‘Footnotes: An Evening of 3 Short Plays by Hannah Moscovitch’, running twice nightly September 22nd-26th, at The Bus Stop Theatre.

The team

Alice – Lesley Smith

Henry – Zach Faye

Musician – Frederic Mujica

Director – Laura Vingoe-Cram

Consultation from Santiago Guzmán

Stage Manager – Chelsea Dickie

Lighting Designer – Alison Crosby

Set Designer – Wesley Babcock

Costume Designer – Everette Fournier

Sound and Projection Designer – Jordan Palmer

Poster Design 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 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

“The use of set and space at Footnotes feels like someone finally making the most of the black box possibility of The Bus Stop.”