It’s this feeling of wanting your mom to see something and I guess Toronto is my mom?” Moscovitch told the Star just before rehearsals started for Old Stock. The Tarragon Theatre production of Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is a homecoming for Hannah Moscovitch. “We’re in the midst of a 30-city tour,” said director Christian Barry, who cocreated the show with Moscovitch and musician Ben Caplan. “Maybe because of who I am and what I am, when I think of home I think of feeling safe. The devastating photos of dead Syrian boy Alan Kurdi had recently surfaced and Stephen Harper’s comment about “old stock Canadians” during a federal election debate was in the air, too.

Source: thestar April 20, 2019 03:56 UTC