Bunny

By Hannah Moscovitch

“In one school year she kissed nineteen boys and won all the science awards.”

From one of Canada’s boldest playwrights comes an intimate look into the sexual life of a young woman as she struggles with the power of her desires.

Sorrel grew up with professor parents, where carob was dessert, reading passages of Canadian poetry aloud was entertainment, and canoeing was the only sport encouraged. No one really noticed the studious Sorrel until she turned seventeen, when late puberty suddenly transformed her into a hot dork. Boys wanted her and girls loathed her, and all at once Sorrel discovered the joys of sexuality and the pain of social rejection.

Sorrel enters college as a self-proclaimed loser with no female friends, but then she meets Maggie. Maggie’s unwavering friendship helps her shed her inhibitions and become more truly herself. The two women grow older, but when Maggie is diagnosed with cancer, Sorrel must choose between raw feeling and devotion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Release date: Mar 18, 2019
• ISBN: 9781770919273

Hannah Moscovitch

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 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, 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, and Canada’s Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. She is a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. She spends her time between Halifax and Los Angeles.

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Bunny

by Hannah Moscovitch

Playwrights Canada Press

Toronto

Bunny © Copyright 2019 by Hannah Moscovitch

First edition: March 2019

Cover design by Monnet Design

Author photo by Alejandro Santiago

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Moscovitch, Hannah, author

          Bunny / by Hannah Moscovitch.

A play.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-77091-925-9 (softcover).--ISBN 978-1-77091-926-6 (PDF).

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          I. Title.

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For my mother Julie White, again.

Contents

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Punctuation

Dash ( — ): a dash at the end of a line of dialogue indicates a cut-off

Dash 2 ( — ): a dash in the middle a line of dialogue indicates a quick change in thought or a stutter

Ellipsis ( . . . ): an ellipsis at the end of a line indicates a trail-off

Ellipsis 2 ( . . . ): an ellipsis in the middle of a line indicates a hesitation or a mental search for a thought or a word

Slash (/): a slash indicates the point at which the character that speaks next interrupts the character that is currently speaking

Beat: approximately a one count

Pause: approximately a three count

Silence: approximately a six count

Bunny was commissioned by and premiered at the Stratford Festival in August 2016 with the following cast and creative team:

Sorrel: Maev Beaty

Carol: Tim Campbell

Angel: David Patrick Flemming

Lola: Jessica B. Hill

The Professor: Cyrus Lane

Maggie: Krystin Pellerin

Justin: Emilio Vieira

Director: Sarah Garton Stanley

Designer: Michael Gianfrancesco

Lighting Designer: Kimberly Purtell

Composer and Sound