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by Karen Hines (Author), Kathleen Oliver (Introduction by), Bruce McCulloch (Foreword by)
Mercury-addled and fabulously flighty, Pochsy is back with a new monologue!
Sweet, vapid, and venomous, Pochsy is an endearingly charming embodiment of all that's gone bats in the world. She used to work at Mercury Packers. Where she packed mercury. Now her employer has moved offshore and Pochsy must grapple with God's broken promise of a five-star future. This is a night sea journey on an unnaturally sparkling river. Harrowing and high speed, Pochsy IV unboxes precarity, consumer obsessions, the future of humankind ... and whatever else might keep you up at night.
Combining magical realism, satire, and horror, this monologue follows the acclaimed trilogy The Pochsy Plays, which have travelled internationally and been a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, among other citations. Pochsy IV: because what the world needs right now is a little more Pochsy.
Author Biography
Karen Hines is the author of Crawlspace, All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, Drama: Pilot Episode, Hello... Hello (A Romantic Satire) and The Pochsy Plays - all published by Coach House Books. Her plays and productions have been presented internationally, and have won many production and literary nominations and awards including twice being finalist for the Governor General's Award for Drama and shortlisted for the 2020 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. A Second City alumna, and an associate of One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre, Karen has also appeared in numerous television and film productions and is the award-winning director of cult horror clowns Mump & Smoot. Raised by scientists in Toronto, she now lives in Calgary.
