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Is your community group looking at how the law affects people's relationships? Are you organizing a meeting, retreat, or conference and looking for an interactive, dynamic and fun-filled social event? Do you teach a social science or law class or do you run a school with students interested in social and/or legal issues?

Then read on……

THROUGH THE KEY HOLE

AN INTERACTIVE PLAY BY THE THÉÂTRE PARMINOU

Canadians enjoy a wide variety of close personal adult relationships that are important to them - they may marry or live with conjugal partners, or they may have economic and emotional interdependent relationships with siblings, grandparents, caregivers or best friends. The law has not always recognized this diversity of relationships. The 2001 Law Commission of Canada report Beyond Conjugality - Recognizing and Supporting Close Personal Adult Relationships explores the best ways of supporting a wider range of relationships in Canadian society.

"Through the Key Hole" presents the lives of individuals who are living in a variety of close personal adult relationships and examines ways to recognize and support the choices that they make. The play is an entertaining interactive piece that allows the audience to share their ideas and views. Four scenes explore the diverse range of issues that arise between two lesbians (acceptance), a daughter and her mother (new relationship), a single woman and a custodial father (living arrangements), and a former stepmother, sister and brother (mental disability).

Following a run in Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, Halifax and Vancouver, the play is now available to groups. For a minimal fee, you may hire Parminou to mount the play for you. You may also purchase the script from the Théâtre Parminou.

CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO CLIP

Through the Keyhole English (MPEG, 6.4 MB)

For more information, please contact Le Théâtre Parminou:

Théâtre Parminou
www.parminou.com
150 Bois-Francs Nord Boulevard
Postal Box 158, Victoriaville (Québec) G6P 6S8
Telephone : (819) 758-0577
Fax : (819) 758-7080
e-mail : parminou@parminou.com

Duration of play : 60-70 minutes
Language: Available in English or in French
Number of actors: 3
Cost: To hire Le Théâtre Parminou - approximately $2,000 plus additional fees and transportation costs, depending on location.

If you would like read about the Law Commission's recommendations on how governments should both recognize and support a broader range of caring relationships and rethink the way in which they regulate these relationships, please call
(819) 779-4348 and ask for the report "Beyond Conjugality: Recognizing and supporting close personal adult relationships".