STEP INTO THE WORLD OF THE TWIN SUES
A new Canadian play by award-winning playwright Garrett M. Ryan
In the middle of a fictional American-Canadian war, the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie have been annexed and forced back together under a single rule. The border is gone. The system remains.
At the centre of it all: two women. Same name. Same past. Very different present.
Sue Johnson and Sue Jackson, once inseparable, known as the “Twin Sues”, now stand on opposite sides of something they no longer fully understand, sharing control of a checkpoint on a newly nationalized bridge. What used to divide them has disappeared. What still binds them… is harder to escape.
What begins as routine slips, slowly and quietly, into something else. Power lingers. Roles calcify. And the question of who belongs, where, and to what, refuses to go away.
Told through a darkly comic, documentary-style lens, The Twin Sues is sharp, unsettling, and unexpectedly human. It’s about borders, but also about friendship, identity, and the systems we inherit long after they’ve stopped making sense.
Dr. Strangelove meets Corner Gas, with the absurdity of The Death of Stalin.
-June 10th-14th
-The Assembly Theatre, Toronto
Limited capacity. Intimate space. Don’t wait, this is the kind of show people talk about after they’ve seen it.
