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Description
They're the ultimate downtown couple—attractive, smart, and successful. They have everything they could ever want. Except a child. When bad news points them to alternative methods of conception, they encounter a handsome young art model. He seems like the perfect solution to their problems. But as this unlikely trio gets more intimate, secret agendas surface and threaten to destroy not only their hasty deal, but everything they've so carefully built for themselves. From one of Canada's funniest playwrights, The Good Egg is a penetrating look at timely, controversial issues. Theatrically audacious, it's also an achingly real and hilarious portrait of three unpredictable people on the brink.
Contributor Notes
Born in Vancouver, Michael Lewis MacLennan now divides his time between Toronto, Vancouver, and Los Angeles, working as a playwright, screenwriter, and TV producer. He is a two-time finalist for Canada's Governor General's Literary Award, and the only playwright to win the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award twice. His first play, Beat the Sunset, garnered Vancouver's Jessie Richardson Award for outstanding emerging playwright and was the winner of the Theatrum National Playwriting Competition. Grace won the Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition and has been produced across Canada and internationally. His next two plays The Shooting Stage and Last Romantics both won the Voaden Prize and were Governor General Award nominees. As a screenwriter, Michael has been nominated five times for the Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award. He was co-executive producer of Queer as Folk, and executive producer and creator of both Godiva's and the new series jPod, based on Douglas Coupland's novel.
Editorial Reviews
"The Good Egg is a sharp, fun, sexy comedy full of poetic language, punched up with raunchy jokes, witty repartee, [and an] honesty and directness that is so appealing. All three characters are fully rounded — full of flaws and insecurities as they tumble through these huge life-altering events." —Dan Perry, Fast Forward Weekly
"A smart, hip and fast-paced comedy [with a] tight, engaging script … Far above the realm of [a] very clever and funny sitcom, it succeeds very well indeed in joining laughter to the shifting nature of human relationships." —Bob Clark, Calgary Herald
"I felt I was witnessing the birth of a spunky new Canadian sex farce." —Louise Hobson, Calgary Sun
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