The play won the Tom Henry Award for Best New Comedy, and has been playing at Showboat Festival’s sister company, Lighthouse Festival in Port Dover, for the past three weeks.
While writing it, Kash never considered whether it could keep up with reality some day.
“We started with the premise that politics is a farce, which we all know,” she says. “We wanted to poke holes with what was going on in the Harper government at the time. All the ‘untruths’ that get spoken in terms of lobbying for whatever. A lot of cloaks and daggers, a lot of smoke and mirrors.
“Never in a million years did we imagine that the situation to the south of us would ever be as ridiculous as it currently is.”
Playing at the Roselawn Centre until July 24, the show also stars Nigel Bennett, Matthew Gorman, Kaitlyn Riordan and Andrea Risk. Kash also directs.
- Something Fishy going on at Showboat Festival, Niagara Falls Review, July 19, 2016.
3. It was nine days before the 2016 US election and Christopher Steele suddenly had a bad feeling about what was going on inside the FBI.
Two months earlier, the British former spy turned private investigator had decided to take his concerns about Donald Trump’s campaign and its alleged ties to the Kremlin to senior US law enforcement officials, mostly out of a sense of duty and worry about the Republican candidate for the White House.
The findings of his research and interviews with contacts seemed to corroborate what intelligence and law enforcement officials were already hearing.
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