Gow's Cherry Docs now in Montreal
David Gow, the internationally successful playwright who has made Stanstead his home for the last eight years, is pleased that his play, Cherry Docs, is now being staged in Montreal, where the writer grew up. Although the play is on of Canadian theatre's most successful dramas, having been described by critics as Mr. Gow's best work, it will be the first time that a Montreal theatre troupe, in this case Persephone Productions, has tackled it.
"There have been over 40 productions of the play in the last eleven years - it's played in London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Edmonton, Halifax, almost every major Canadian city. It has also been played in repertoire for three years in Berlin and played extensively in Poland," explained David Gow in an interview with the Stanstead Journal.
Cherry Docs is about the relationship between a Jewish lawyer and the neo-nazi skinhead that he is assigned to defend for murdering an Asian man by kicking him to death with his cherry red Doc Marten combat boots. Mr. Gow was inspired to write the play by a true event. "The play is very intense, very dramatic. It is not a depressing story but a hopeful one," commented the writer.
Stanstead Journal
April 22, 2009
"There have been over 40 productions of the play in the last eleven years - it's played in London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Edmonton, Halifax, almost every major Canadian city. It has also been played in repertoire for three years in Berlin and played extensively in Poland," explained David Gow in an interview with the Stanstead Journal.
Cherry Docs is about the relationship between a Jewish lawyer and the neo-nazi skinhead that he is assigned to defend for murdering an Asian man by kicking him to death with his cherry red Doc Marten combat boots. Mr. Gow was inspired to write the play by a true event. "The play is very intense, very dramatic. It is not a depressing story but a hopeful one," commented the writer.
Stanstead Journal
April 22, 2009