Haven

Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother’s tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain childhood memories from living in war-torn Yugoslavia. When a sudden sinkhole in front of Elsie’s apartment building swallows a car that happens to contain a copy of Elsie’s mother’s novel, their paths cross, and the two are quickly drawn to each other’s search for fulfillment.

Haven is a beautiful portrait of how certain life events can be incredibly isolating, and what happens when people come into our lives when we need them most.

• Havre won the 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama (French).
• The play has also been translated into German and Spanish.
• First produced in French by La Troupe du Jour, Saskatoon, in 2018
• First produced in English by United Players of Vancouver in January 2022