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And the rest is silence: a study of loneliness in Request Programme at Northern Light, a review

Vanessa Sabourin in Request Programme, Northern Light Theatre. Photo supplied. By Liz Nicholls, .ca You won’t see a more devastating study of chronic loneliness than the solo play that’s the finale of Northern Light Theatre’s 50th anniversary season. The woman we meet in Request Programme doesn’t explain herself. For one thing, there are no words in this 1970s performance piece by Franz Xaver Kroetz. So we’re free to let our thoughts gather up the minute particulars of the woman’s evening after-work routine in her solitary studio apartment, and focus where we will. They seem to add up to a life…

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