Characters: 1 male 2 femaleSimple Set
Winner of the 2010 Samuel French Canadian Playwrights Contest
Alone on a vast stretch of water Annie Iversen recounts the strange chain of events that left her stranded in her son's old kayak. A doting suburban mother Annie is blindsided when her son Peter falls in love with Julie a passionate environmental activist. Unable to reconcile herself to Julie's radical worldview Annie struggles desperately to keep Peter from falling further into the young woman's dangerous world. Climate change S'mores SUVs and Noah's Ark are all onstage as Annie sets out to save her son and unwittingly throws herself into the path of events larger than she ever could have imagined. Touching and provocative Kayak invites us all to confront our choices in the landscape of the growing environmental crisis."Gripping heartbreaking." -Lynn Slotkin
CBC Radio
"A trio of vivid memorable characters." - Jon Kaplan
NOW Magazine
"Stellar insightful writing." - Dave Deveau
Plank Magazine