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 crack. Soon, Lauren can no longer comprehend her own decisions and desires (like why she asked Luke to narrate for her in the first place).
Hannah Moscovitch's play Red Like Fruit interrogates the many contradictions and complexities of complicity, consent, patriarchy and traumatic memory in the post #MeToo era.
A finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Red Like Fruit was first staged in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2024. It has its UK premiere at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2025.
Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright, TV writer, and librettist whose work has been widely produced in Canada and around the world.
Her plays include: Red Like Fruit (Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2024; Toronto & Edinburgh, 2025); The Children's Republic; Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes and Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan).
She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Trillium Book Award, the Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award, the Scotsman Fringe First and the Herald Angel Awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize administered by Yale University. She has been nominated for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Drama Desk Award, Canada's Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, and the Governor General's Literary Award.
