ABOUT RED LIKE FRUIT

Red Like Fruit is the latest work from Governor General’s Award winning playwright, Hannah Moscovitch. The play features a man telling a woman’s story. Lauren asks Luke to narrate her life: her fraying mental health, the growing sense of unease she feels in the world. While Lauren’s been reporting on a high profile case of domestic violence, she’s been thinking back with eerie ambivalence on a set of sexual events from her adolescence, and something in her has started to crash. Soon, Lauren can no longer comprehend her own decisions and desires (like why she asked Luke to narrate for her in the first place). Red Like Fruit interrogates the role and impact of men’s voices in women’s stories and delves into the many contradictions and complexities of complicity, consent and traumatic memory in the post #MeToo era.

Red Like Fruit will infuriate you. Or rather, the way Moscovitch and director Christian Barry have presented it will. And that’s all intended.

Glenn Sumi

Vivid, topical and beautifully written, the acting superlative. Top marks all round.

North West End

a true masterpiece

Corr Blimey

Creative Team

  • Playwright: Hannah Moscovitch
  • Director: Christian Barry
  • Designer: Kaitlin Hickey
  • Performers: Michelle Monteith & David Patrick Flemming
  • Stage Manager: Alison Crosby

Performance History

  • WORLD PREMIERE – Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax NS – April 3-21, 2024
  • TORONTO PREMIERE – Soulpepper Theatre & Luminato Festival – May 28 – June 15, 2025
  • UK PREMIERE – Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe – July 31 – August 24, 2025

We are actively touring this show across the world. Interested in bringing it to your community?