Carried away on the crest of a wave

Carried away on the crest of a wave

By David Yee, directed by Kim Collier, NAC English Theatre production, to April 1

Reviewed Saturday by Lynn Saxberg, the “Ottawa Citizen

Carried away on the crest of a wave, David Yee’s ambitious play about the after-effects of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, is a boundary-pushing piece of Canadian theatre that dispenses with tradition.

Instead of telling one heroic story about the natural disaster that claimed more than 200,000 lives, it tells nine stories, each featuring decidedly non-heroic characters in different parts of the world.

As staged by the National Arts Centre’s English theatre department, the new version of the play consists of a series of nine vignettes, evidently one less than its Tarragon Theatre debut in Toronto three years ago. Although tightened up, it still has a running time of two-and-a-half hours, including intermission, and there’s a lot to pack in.

Each vignette features unrelated characters in different settings, their locations and dates indicated on a helpful timeline that runs across the front of the stage……

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