Testing the limits of normalcy and attraction
McGill’s TNC takes on The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
By Rebecca Ugolini
This month, McGill’s English-department student drama group Tuesday Night Café Theatre continues Montreal’s recent Equus-fuelled trend of plays which push the boundaries of the sexually normative with a staging of Edward Albee’s 2002 play The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
The story of Martin, a 50-year-old architect whose family is mortified to discover he has fallen in love—and in lust—with a goat, Albee’s script is psychologically complex and morally ambiguous. Although Albee’s rapid-fire dialogue eventually becomes tedious rather than witty, TNC’s cast and crew do an excellent job staging such an ambitious project.
