Asking For It (Moon’s debut as playwright) looks at gender roles and sexual consent in the wake of the Ghomeshi scandal, and considers the various ways in which sexual consent is understood personally, culturally, and legally. In this documentary play, Moon speaks with people of all ages and backgrounds about their assumptions and experiences around consent to sexual relations, and with legal experts about the current state of sexual assault law in Canada. What I Call Her (Moon’s second work as playwright) is a play about gaps in how people perceive and understand the world they live in, female generational rage, and the loneliness of holding on to one’s own truth.
Asking For It, premiered in 2017 as both Crow’s and Nightwood’s 2017-18 season opener. It was named one of both Intermission Magazine and NOW Magazine’s “Top 10 Theatre Productions of 2017” and called, “a questing work of art”, “a bracing pleasure…sly, intelligent” (The Globe & Mail) “riveting…essential viewing” (NOW), and “an incredible accomplishment…vital theatre” (Intermission).
What I Call Her, premiered at Crow’s Theatre the following year, in their 2018-19 season. It was called: “Enlightening in it’s agony…incredible…some serious art…a showcase of noteworthy skill…remarkable…astonishingly real…simple and achingly lovely…the real marvel here might be how good Moon is at getting under our skin. Her writing demands a kind of interpolation” (The Globe & Mail).
Publisher : Talonbooks (Dec 17 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 224 pages
For performance rights: Marquis Literary