Touchstone Theatre

by Michael Redhill

Performed to a haunting a cappella score of folk music from around the world, Goodness explores what it means to tell, or even know, the truth about one of humanity's most sinister habits – genocide. With time-shifting tales-within-tales, award-winning playwright and novelist Michael Redhill takes the audience on a gripping, and at times darkly funny, journey through the life of a recently-divorced writer as he wrestles with a failed marriage, his family’s Holocaust history, and the story of a much more recent atrocity told to him by a mysterious woman with a chilling secret. Toronto’s Volcano Theatre has been touring this stunning and passionate production for years to great acclaim, including winning an Edinburgh Fringe First Award in 2006.

“One of the top ten shows of the past decade” NOW Magazine, 2009

Michael Redhill was educated in the United States and Canada and he took seven years to complete a three-year BA in acting, film, and finally, English. Since 1988, he has published five collections of poetry, had eight plays of varying lengths performed, and been a cultural critic and essayist. He has worked as an editor, a ghost-writer, an anthologist, and a scriptwriter for film and television. Currently, he is the publisher and one of the editors of Brick, a journal of things literary. His latest novel, Consolation, won the City of Toronto Book Award, and was long-listed for the 2007 Man Booker Prize.