Trudeau Stories: A fondly funny look back in time.
Photo: Kelly Clipperton
Trudeau Stories By Brooke Johnson, Great Canadian Theatre Company Directed by Allyson McMackon
Pierre Elliott Trudeau may have been a kind of sorcerer, a shape-shifter and ultimately unknowable, to public affairs writer Richard Gwyn, who titled his 1980 book about the former prime minister The Northern Magus: Trudeau and Canada.
To Brooke Johnson, 40 years Trudeau’s junior, he was a friend, an occasional swimming and hiking companion, a man who once slid down an icy Montreal street with her shouting “Whee!” …