we wouldn’t survive
if we remembered everything

 
Written by John Mighton
Directed by Daniel Brooks
Set & Costumes by Dany Lyne
Lighting by Andrea Lundy
Sound by Richard Feren
 

Clara and Patrick meet in a nursing home for veterans and their families. They begin to fall in love, thinking they are rekindling an old flame. Have they ever met before? As Clara and Patrick’s middle-aged children watch their faltering parents, the older couple rediscovers beauty and love in the twilight of their lives. Half Life is a poetic and moving meditation on identity, aging and the nature of memory.

 

An unforgettable experience that is a gain, in every sense
of the word, for the Canadian dramatic canon
.”

The Globe and Mail