Daddy wants to win the lottery, Mommy is still bitter about getting knocked up at twenty, Simeon has war-related PTSD, and Rachel just wants to get out of her parents’ Oakwood/Eglinton place and have a home of her own, but first there are a few things she’s got to get off her chest. It’s Jamaica’s Independence Day, Toronto is sweltering, and everyone is on edge–then the air-conditioner breaks. Loosely inspired by Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, Andrea Scott’s Get That Hope looks at the dysfunction of a Jamaican-Canadian family that has no idea how to communicate without wounding.
About the Author
Andrea Scott‘s play Eating Pomegranates Naked won the RBC Arts Professional Award, and was named Outstanding Production at the 2013 SummerWorks Festival. Better Angels: A Parable won the SummerWorks Award for Outstanding Production, and was published in 2018. Don’t Talk to Me Like I’m Your Wife won the Cayle Chernin Award for theatre, and was produced at SummerWorks in 2016. 2019 saw her co-written play with Nick Green, Every Day She Rose wow audiences at Buddies in Bad Times. Her play about Viola Desmond, Controlled Damage, had its sold-out world premiere at Neptune Theatre in 2020. Get That Hope will have its World Premiere at the Stratford Festival in 2024 at the Studio Theatre. She currently resides in West Hollywood, California, working for Disney.
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