Lesson in Forgetting

Healing, love, trauma, memory, and isolation are at the core of the work from celebrated Acadian playwright Haché. Lesson in Forgetting is directed by Pleiades Associate Artistic Producer Ash Knight and asks whether love alone can suffice when everything else is lost. In this two-character story featuring award-winning Canadian actors Andrew Moodie and Ma-Anne Dionisio, HE has suffered a massive brain trauma as a result of a car crash some years earlier; ever since, the only thing he can remember is how much he loves his wife. SHE, confined to caring for him for the rest of her days, wishes for nothing more than for him to forget that he loves her so that she might yet start over on her own path of life.  Beautiful, poetic and delicately written, this play becomes a metaphorical reckoning for us all: how we see ourselves, how we treat each other, how we care for each other, how we govern ourselves.