Event type: Performance

 

This is a play reading At The Love Shack, a quirky, rundown cottage filled with family memories and dodgy plumbing, two men arrive with more baggage than the suitcases they carry. Len, a tightly wound musician mourning his mother Suzanne, and Clark, his reckless, estranged father, are summoned by Suzanne’s will to spend three days honouring her “last requests” before any inheritance is revealed.

Through a series of cassette tapes—equal parts heartfelt and inappropriate—Suzanne demands they share awkward hugs, celebrate Christmas out of season, and relive family memories, all while grappling with old wounds, resentment, and the ghosts of their past. As booze, bad cooking, and psychedelic mishaps ensue, father and son are forced to confront long-buried secrets, bitter truths, and their own ineptitude as they stumble toward a messy, imperfect kind of closure.