Photo by Emily Cooper
Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
by Hannah Moscovitch
A drama about a novelist and star professor who is tortured with self-loathing when he notices a pupil - a girl in a red coat. Jon finds himself amid another divorce, his third. He's grown bored with his job as a university lecturer and struggles to write his latest novel. Enter Annie, his attractive 19-year-old student and his super fan. She sits in the front row of his lectures and gazes at him with rapt attention. He can’t get her off his mind - until one day she shows up at his front door.
Cast & Creative
Michael Shamata
Jon
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As Artistic Director of the Belfry Theatre in Victoria, Michael has commissioned and directed numerous new works, and collaborated with Nick Bantock on the adaptation of Griffin & Sabine. Belfry credits also include the Canadian premieres of The Year of Magical Thinking and A Doll’s House, Part 2, and the English-language premiere of And Slowly Beauty. He has won numerous awards for his direction, and multiple awards for outstanding production in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa. He has directed at most of Canada’s major theatres, including Stratford, Canadian Stage, Theatre Calgary, the Citadel and the Manitoba Theatre Centre. His production of A Christmas Carol at Soulpepper became an annual Toronto tradition. Michael is the former Artistic Director of Theatre New Brunswick and the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario.
Sara Canning
Annie
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Bahareh has most recently starred in Steve Martin's comedy, Meteor Shower, at Theatre Calgary and played Lady de Winter at Citadel's The Three Musketeers. Her work has taken her across the country at the stages of the Shaw Festival, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Mirvish, The Citadel, Theatre Calgary, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Théâtre Français de Toronto, Arts Club, Royal MTC, Nightwood, Canadian Stage, Theatre Smash, ARC, Why Not Theatre, YPT, and others. Recent Film/TV: Good Sam, What We Do in the Shadows, Kim’s Convenience, Dear David, and Inedia. Bahareh is a six-time Dora award nominee (Individual/Ensemble) and a two-time Sterling award nominee (Individual/Ensemble).
Hannah Moscovitch
Playwright
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Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright and TV writer whose work for the stage has been widely produced across Canada and internationally. She has won numerous accolades for her playwriting, including the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize and the Governor General’s Award. Past writing for the stage includes: East of Berlin, This is War, Bunny, Sexual Misconduct of the Middles Classes, and Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Ben Caplan and Christian Barry). In television, Hannah is the Co-Creator, Executive Producer and Head Writer of Little Bird for Bell Media and Rezolution alongside Jennifer Podemski. Most recently, Hannah was Co-Executive Producer on Interview With The Vampire for AMC with Gran Via and Dwight Street Book Club producing.