Mary Elizabeth Vingoe

Living Curiosities dramatizes the story of Anna Swan, a giantess from Nova Scotia who is sent to P.T. Barnum's famed American Museum in New York City. Old alliances and bitter feelings threaten to tear the company apart, yet they must all work together to escape the past and find their own identities.

Ayinom, a former soldier from Eritrea, has arrived in Canada without papers, and seeks refugee status. Seen through the eyes of the couple that take him in and the lawyer who represents him, the play lays bare some of the shortfalls of the refugee system as it exists in Canada today. Refuge combines...