Synopses & Reviews
According to Joan MacLeod, her play
2000 grew out of a story she read about a cougar that had wandered into a sports arena in Vancouver, BC: I was intrigued by the notion of the wild invading the city and the city invading the wild, by the idea of things being not quite right in nature and the approach of the millennium.”
In the play, the cougar appears to embody the precarious and increasingly circumscribed state of nature. Each character relates to nature in a different way, whether it be with distrust, cynicism, awe or longing. The figure of the Mountain Man,” who has abandoned all of his civilized ways, even speech, to live among the animals of the forest, provides a meeting ground between humanity and nature. Like the cougar, increasingly crowded by a rapidly encroaching civilization, he scavenges what precious little remains of the beautiful animal in all of us.
Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
Review
"[
2000] is a remarkable achievement."
CBRA (Canadian Book Review Annual)
"Full of good insights, good lines."
University of Toronto Quarterly
Synopsis
Relationships at the end of the millennium, among people and with nature. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
About the Author
Joan MacLeodMultiple Betty Mitchell, Chalmers, Dora and Governor Generals Award-winning author Joan MacLeod grew up in North Vancouver.
Now an internationally celebrated star of the world of the theater, MacLeod developed her finely honed playwriting skills during seven seasons as playwright-in-residence at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, and turned her hand to opera with her libretto for The Secret Garden, which won a Dora Award.
In 1991, her play Amigos Blue Guitar won the Governor Generals Drama Award.