Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

by Hannah Moscovitch

Overview

Jon, a star professor and author, is racked with self-loathing after his third marriage crumbles around him when he finds himself admiring a student—a girl in a red coat. The girl, nineteen-year-old Annie, is a big fan of his work, and also happens to live down the street. From their doorways to his office to hotel rooms, their mutual admiration and sexual tension escalates under Jon’s control to a surprising conclusion that will leave you wanting to go back and question your perceptions of power as soon as you finish.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780369102300
Publisher:	Theatre Communications Group
Publication date:	09/07/2021
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.38(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hannah Moscovitch is one of Canada’s most prominent playwrights. She has written sixteen plays, including East of Berlin, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, and This is War, and she has been honored with numerous awards, among them the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Nova Scotia MasterWorks Arts Award, and the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. Hannah’s music-theatre hybrid Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story (co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan) became a TimeOut and New York Times Critic’s Pick, winning both the Herald Angel and a Scotsman Fringe First awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and receiving six Drama Desk Award nominations in New York, crossing the 400-performance line in the process. In television, Hannah is co-creator, executive producer, and head writer of Little Bird alongside showrunner Jennifer Podemski, which has garnered a landslide of awards and critical praise, including the Séries Maria Prix Public (or Audience Award) and thirteen Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Drama Series. Most recently, Hannah was co-executive producer on seasons 1 and 2 of AMC’s hit series Interview With The Vampire.

Editorial Reviews

Beyond providing her signature sharp sense of humour... the intrigue in Moscovitch’s script is in discovering why she’s playing with such traditional tropes, so out of character for the playwright who has written so frankly about female sexuality.” —Carly Maga, Toronto Star

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