Season 2022-23

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

By Hannah Moscovitch
Directed by Eda Holmes

A provocative look into the intimate challenges within academia in the #MeToo era, this exploration of consent and exploitation won the Governor General’s Award in 2021. Eda Holmes Directs this Montreal production starring Marcel Jeannin as the professor.

November 8 – 27, 2022
laurels
2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama
“First-rate material from one of Canada’s best playwrights”
Susan G. Cole, NOW Toronto
“Powerful and clever and funny”
Ron Johnson, Toronto.com

About the show

Known for her up-to-the-minute plays with shocking twists, Hannah Moscovitch takes on the topic of sexual misconduct in this present-day play. This story features two perspectives on the same relationship, asking the question, who owns this narrative?

Jon Macklem is a teacher in the middle of his third divorce. Lonely and full of self-loathing, he begins an illicit relationship with Annie—one of his nineteen-year-old students. The echoes of their relationship reverberate in the years that follow, growing from a rumble to a roar once #MeToo breaks.

Cast

Marcel Jeannin
Jon
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Marcel Jeannin

Marcel has performed in theatres across Canada, the United States, and France, and is a past member of both the Stratford Festival and National Arts Centre acting companies. For Centaur Theatre, credits include God in Paradise Lost, Karl/Steve in Clybourne Park, Alan in God of Carnage, and Antipholus in The Comedy of Errors. For the Segal Centre, credits include Freddie in Noises Off, Michael in The Secret Annex and Trigorin in The Seagull. For Hudson Village Theatre, credits include Marc in Art. Film and television credits include Three Pines, The Braid, Crisis, Ghosts and 300, as well as the titular voice in The New Adventures of Lucky Luke. He is a frequent guest artist at the National Theatre School of Canada.

More Info

Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright, TV writer, and librettist whose work has been widely produced in Canada and around the world. Recent stage work includes Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan). Hannah has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Trillium Book Award, the Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award, the Scotsman Fringe First and the Herald Angel Awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize administered by Yale University. She has been nominated for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Drama Desk Award, Canada’s Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, and the Governor General’s Literary Award. She is a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. She lives in Halifax. – Playwrights Canada Press

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