Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
$55.17
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
2 December 2021
Summary
The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking play by the acclaimed Canadian playwright, author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny.
An author and star professor, wracked with self-loathing after a third divorce, catches himself admiring a student – a girl in a red coat. Turns out the girl is a huge fan of his work. She also lives just down the street and gets locked out one afternoon…
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780369102300 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0369102304 |
| Author: | Hannah Moscovitch |
| Publisher: | Playwrights Canada Press,Canada |
| Imprint: | Playwrights Canada Press,Canada |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 2021 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 135mm x 215mm |
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Critics Review
‘Powerful and clever and funny’
* TRNTO *‘A doozy… Gender power dynamics, ingrained societal notions of sexuality and personal culpability are just some of the issues explored in this powerfully prescient play’
* Arts Hub Australia *‘Burrows into the systemic power imbalances that gave rise to the #MeToo movement without making us feel dirty in the process’
* Time Out Melbourne *Hannah Moscovitch
Hannah Moscovitch
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)
- Fall On Your Knees (co-adapted with Alisa Palmer)
- The Children’s Republic
- Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
- 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.
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.
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