University of Ottawa seeks balance in a challenging play by Carole Frechette
Ambiguity is a driving force of Quebec dramatist Carole Frechette’s gripping play, The Small Room At The Top Of The Stairs. More specifically it’s about the terrors that can lurk within that ambiguity — an element pursued by director Milena Buziak in her new production for the University of Ottawa Drama Department.
Uncertainty can wreak havoc on a fragile psyche, and newly married Grace is a prize specimen for a playwright whose cunning stage piece may present the outward trappings of a horror story but which is really concerned with the monsters that can rage within us. …