Generous

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By Michael Healey

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What happens when someone is overwhelmed by a desire to help? Does it matter if people only do good in order to feel good? One of Canada's finest playwrights tackles tricky questions in Generous—four short interconnected plays that explore the complications and moral ambiguity created by the altruistic impulse. By turns hilarious, shocking, moving, and politically-charged, Healey's intertwined plots and characters create a theatrical piece that is both thought-provoking and powerfully entertaining. Act One of each of the plays happens before intermission—the resolutions—and revelations—take place afterward. In PMO, a minority government teeters on the brink of falling when an MP appears, soaked in blood. In The Death of the Alberta Report, a cut-throat oil executive tells the truth to a reporter, and then seduces him. One-Party Rule begins with an excruciating post-coital chat between an aging judge and a loquacious young law clerk. And Lily kicks off with a spectacular battle over a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Each play contains a generous deed. And in the second half, the surprising consequences of those four seemingly unrelated acts of generosity will take your breath away.

Generous