Published with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. We also acknowledge the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program.

      LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

      Redhill, Michael, 1966-

       Goodness / Michael Redhill. – 1st ed.

      A play.

      ISBN 1-55245-163-1

      1. Genocide–Drama. I. Title.

      PS8585.E3425G66 200 C812’.54 C2005-906346-7

      He drags me, he drags me away –

      Do you not see? –

      To the House of the Dead,

      The Winged One

      Alcestis, Euripedes

      Szerelem, szerelem / átkozott gyötrelem (Love, love / wretched suffering)

      Hungarian folk song

      Goodness premiered at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto on October 25, 2005, as a Volcano/Tarragon co-production, with the following cast and crew:

      The characters in this play never leave the stage – the stage being an imaginative space in which Michael Redhill, the character, is writing the play. Other than Michael and Althea, the rest of the characters act as a kind of chorus – each has a primary character, but they take on other roles in a way that has a meaningful interaction with Michael‘s thoughts or Althea‘s memories.