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FREEZE is a comedy-drama set in Montreal during the worst day of the 1998 Ice Storm of the Century. The play dramatizes allegorically the historic ice storm, presaging "cooler" more tolerant times in Quebec compared to the “heated” sovereignty divisions of earlier decades.
Five quirky characters find themselves ice bound inside the blacked-out lower duplex of journalist, Nicole, a lifelong sovereigntist. Her boyfriend, Curtis, a black jazz musician raised in Montreal arrives from Toronto with a shocking request. Mickey, an Irish working-class handyman exploits the storm by selling firewood and sawing down dangerous tree limbs at exorbitant prices. He clashes with Hydro-Quebec lineman Réjean dealing with a downed powerline. And the horny senior widow upstairs, Claire, tries to mediate this dysfunctional quintet of characters butting heads in candlelight. Tensions flare inside as the storm rages on.
Keywords: Allegorical comedy, 1998 Ice Storm, "Two Solitudes" melting in Multicultural Montreal
First Produced: 2002 at the Centaur Theatre, Montreal, QC.
Running Time: 105 minutes
Acts: 2
Cast size: 5 actors
Male Cast: 3
Female Cast: 2
