"You know the feeling where your life is a sinkhole?" When I first read these words in Callie Kimball's Things That Are Round, it was late 2019 and I couldn't get enough of it: A story about women who are somehow both larger-than-life and eerily familiar, consumed with their own audacious delusions of living large-enough lives. Time is funny, though, and what started as Theatre L’Acadie’s dream of bringing this new and strange play to our community, soon began to feel like a delusion as we wondered if we would ever see live theatre again, much less make it. And yet, here we are- reporting live from our big beautiful sinkhole and I couldn't be more grateful.

When was the last time you played pretend? As adults, we often believe that make believe is reserved for children, interactions with children, and childish things. When a child is lonely, they are encouraged to retreat to their imagination for company- creating new stories for themselves in their own private worlds. Combating loneliness with our imaginations as adults is a little more complicated. Maybe we swipe on a dating app for an evening, or we decide we are going to cut our bangs ourself- it can't be that hard! Maybe we apply for that PhD program or submit that big audition. Maybe we decide that becoming a Mom will turn it all around. 

Where is the line that separates our pretending, our dreaming, from delusion? How do you know when you've crossed that line? And when you realize that you have, do you want to come back?

A tremendous thank you to the team of weirdos at Theatre L'Acadie whose weird brings out my weird, so none of us are so weird anymore. It's been a dream.