Young Female Playwright
"Everyone in the room decides her fiction is a confession, and she is expected to keep smiling through it."
Curator's Note
Ellie Moon wrote this and plays the lead, and the double duty shows in the best way: the script keeps turning the question of who is allowed to tell which story rather than settling it, and she performs the exhausting cheerfulness of a woman being appraised. Watch the rooms — greenrooms, lobbies, opening-night crowds — for how the camera keeps Millie lit and legible while everyone around her sits in the dark, reading. It is a first feature with visible rough edges and the occasional tidy line, and it is sharpest when it lets the comedy of a Q&A do the arguing.
Synopsis
Millie Moresy is 26 and about to open her first play on the main stage of Canada's National Theatre. When the press release frames her dark family drama as a "deeply personal story," the room quietly reclassifies her fiction as testimony — colleagues, strangers online, and her own family start reading the script as evidence. Millie insists she made it up, and finds that insisting is its own kind of performance.
Genre
Comedy
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