At the Caravan Farm Theatre Retreat

From May 19 to May 28 I have the great fortune to be one of the playwrights invited to develop new work as part of Caravan Farm Theatre’s national playwrights retreat. I’m here to work on Binary Star (the play, not the film), half of which concerns a woman attempting to traverse British Columbia—this very region, as it happens—in the summer of 2003, when fires devastated the interior. I’m being fed well and regaled with stories from this company’s fascinating past, wandering through woods littered with mysterious structures, getting to know my cohort, developing a crush on a percheron, looking for old road maps, and writing. As soon as I leave this beautiful place I’ll be heading directly to Vancouver to workshop Binary Star as part of my tenure as a Playwrights Theatre Centre Associate.