Curious Cats Theatre examines the impact of war in Time Stands Still, October 14 to 25
Maryth Gilroy and Karen Hamm direct Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Donald Margulies’s drama at the Jericho Arts Centre
David Nuamah and Sandra Medeiros in Time Stands Still. Photo by Andrew Fraser
Curious Cats Theatre Collective presents Time Stands Still at the Jericho Arts Centre October 14 to 25
WAR DOESN’T JUST affect the lives of active combatants and the civilians caught in the crossfire. It can also have lasting consequences for those sent into war zones to bring the news of what’s happening to the rest of the world.
In Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Donald Margulies’s drama Time Stands Still, photojournalist Sarah has returned home from overseas after being seriously injured by a roadside bomb. Her long-time partner, James, is a foreign correspondent with his own emotional trauma from covering wars.
Margulies has said his intention in writing the play was “to capture a sense of the way we live now, to dramatize the things that thinking, feeling, moral people are thinking about and struggle with”. Reviewing Time Stands Still on Broadway in 2010, the New York Daily News said Margulies “writes with intelligence and humor and creates dialogue that always hits the ear as real.”
Charlotte Billing, Sandra Medeiros, Roger Watts, and David Nuamah in Time Stands Still. Photo by Andrew Fraser
In Curious Cats Theatre Collective’s production of Time Stands Still, Sandra Medeiros stars as Sarah and David Nuamah plays James, with Roger Watts as their editor and mentor Richard, and Charlotte Billing as his younger girlfriend, Mandy. Maryth Gilroy and Karen Hamm direct.
The play will be accompanied by a photography exhibit in the Jericho Arts Centre lobby, featuring photos by Christopher Dellinger, Andrew Fraser, Leanne Jijian Hume, Dominique Labrosse, and Kyrani Kanavaros. 
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