Peggy’s Song: a sincere exploration of grief which asks important questions.
Peggy’s Song, the final production of Theatre Kingston’s 2019-20 season, provides a light-hearted respite from the serious dramas shown in the fall (the socially conscious–driven Welcome to my Underworld and Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days). To be sure, there is a serious story undergirding this play by long-time writer Jim Garrard, directed by Jacob James, making it fitting with the theme of this year’s season. Yet seemed to be a less ceremonious and more relaxed event at the same time, compared to the two previous productions. I suspect that this has to do with the play’s equal blend of comedy with tragedy, which resulted many laughs being periodically elicited from the audience. …