'Care' at Tarragon Theatre. Diane Flacks & Richard Greenblatt. Photo: Cylla Von Tiedemann

Care

By Diane Flacks & Richard Greenblatt

“The important things like love and peace and contentment, those you just have to let happen right?” – CARE

Care centres on Steve and Ellie, a couple sandwiched between the demands of a temperamental baby, high-pressure jobs and an ailing parent. As they try to meet everyone’s needs, they end up with no time for a personal life: no time for love, intimacy, sex, privacy or peace. They turn to others for help – an attractive client at work, a volunteer at the nursing home or Yahweh, herself. Diane and Richard draw from personal, researched, and imagined experience to tell a touching and comic story about care giving and care taking.

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A broken relationship has never been so fun to watch… Care is worth the price of admission.
Canadian Jewish NewsDavid Silverberg

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Flacks is marvellous in switching identities from a chatty Jewish lady to a born-again Christian to a mysterious Eastern-European woman to a dippy would-be actress. Greenblatt plays Ellie's father with a mixture of humour and pathos.
Eye Weekly

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You will recognize the married couple at its centre -- Ellie and Steve, played by Flacks and Greenblatt respectively -- as your friends, neighbours or possibly even yourselves.”

The Globe and MailKamal-Al-Solaylee