Asking For It
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Asking for It and What I Call Her presents two exciting, thought-provoking plays from rising Canadian theatre star Ellie Moon. Written in the wake of the Jian Ghomeshi scandal, Asking for It considers gender roles and the various ways sexual consent is understood personally, culturally, and legally.What I Call Her explores female generational rage, the loneliness of holding on to one's own truth, and the gaps in how people perceive and understand the world they inhabit. As Marcha Schabas writes in her foreword, Moon's "dialogue explodes with an intellectual energy and psychological acuity rarely seen on Canadian stages." These are rewarding, complex plays from a "smart and irreverent artist whose career is just taking off."
Asking for It, cast of 2 women and 2 men
What I Call Her, cast of 2 women and 1 man
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Ellie Moon is a Dora-nominated actor and a playwright. She has acted in stage productions in Canada with Soulpepper, Segal Centre, Crow's, Nightwood, and Thousand Islands Playhouse, and in the UK at Bush Theatre and Tristan Bates Theatre.
Her recent onscreen acting work includes the upcoming Canadian indie feature Adult Adoption (for which she also wrote the screenplay). Ellie's playwrighting debut, Asking For It, premiered as both Crow's and Nightwood's 2017-18 season opener. Her second play, What I Call Her, premiered at Crow's the following year. Ellie's third play, This Was the World, premiered at Tarragon Theatre, where Ellie is currently playwright-in-residence, in their 2019-20 season. Ellie founded the charitable Secret Shakespeare Series.