school in Canada, Camp X, where spies
from all over the world came to train in
sabotage and guerilla fighting.”
Before trying her hand at scripts,
Moscovitch planned on an acting
career. After majoring in English at the
University of Toronto, she graduated
from the National Theatre School of
Canada.
“I trained as an actor but was very
bad,” she says. “I was good in my play-
writing classes and read a lot of plays.
There was a playwriting program at the
school, but I wasn’t in it although I spent
a lot of time begging playwriting teach-
ers to read my work.
“After I left school, I never acted
again.”
Moscovitch has picked up on an
interest of her husband’s — hockey. He
is a fan of the Detroit Red Wings, and
they’ve been to the Motor City to watch
games. She took him to Motown for his
birthday, and they have given their son
Red Wings paraphernalia.
As the playwright prepares to go to
Stratford, a place visited her entire life
as an audience member, she is working
on the libretto for an opera that gives a
child’s view of fleeing war in the Balkans.
It is for a company in Philadelphia.
“I hope the struggles in Bunny are
recognizable to women of all genera-
tions,” she says. “In the end, it questions
whether sexual choices have to be moral
choices and draws heavily on Victorian
literature, in which the way a woman is
often known as a good or bad charac-
ter is by the way her sexual or marital
choices are made.”
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was raised with an atheistic outlook
at the same time she was schooled in
Judaism.
“I went to Hebrew school four days
a week until I was 13 and had my bat
mitzvah,” explains the playwright, who
has been awarded the 2016 Windham-
Campbell Prize administered by Yale,
the 2015 Gascon-Thomas Prize for
Revitalizing Theatre and the Toronto
Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Canadian
Play.
“I learned the history of Judaism and
know all the prayers. We celebrated all
the holidays, and we were kosher style. It
was important to my father that we had
Shabbos dinners every week.
“I went on the March of the Living,
and I lived in a kibbutz when I was 18.
Judaism really influenced me.”
Moscovitch has not had a religious
wedding ceremony with her husband,
Christian Barry, a theater artistic director
who is not Jewish. They hold a Canadian
marriage certificate and are thinking
of ways to bring Judaism into the life of
their 10-month-old son, Elijah, as they
also explore the possibility of reciting
their vows before a rabbi.
Since becoming a mother,
Moscovitch’s writing routine has
changed. She used to prefer developing
dialogue in late-night work sessions or
early morning intervals. Now, she writes
when she can get a babysitter, usually in
the afternoons.
“I’ve been writing for television for
the last few years,” she says. “I’ve done
episodes for X Company, which is set in
World War II. There was an espionage
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lust for power comes through in this
distillation of Richard II and Henry IV
Part I. Through Sept. 24.
• Breath of Kings – Redemption by
William Shakespeare as adapted by
Graham Abbey. The effects of victory
abroad on crisis at home become cen-
tral to this distillation of Henry IV Part
2 and Henry V. Through Sept. 24.
• The Hypochondriac by Moliere.
A comedy delves into the behavior of
an unwise father who is wealthy and
healthy. Through Oct. 14.
• John Gabriel Borkman by
Henrik Ibsen. A banker refuses to
accept responsibility for his misdeeds.
Through Sept. 23.
• The Aeneid by Olivier Kemeid. A
band of refugees flee their devastated
city to make a new country home.
Through Oct. 4.
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