Description du livre
Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it’s 1963 and Father Paul tells her that’s not allowed. After having her dreams crushed and being made fun of by her classmate and star altar boy Martin, Genevieve prays to God hoping for an exception. Instead, a fourteen-year-old martyr from the fourth century, St. Pancras, appears and promises to get her an answer from God. But with her mom missing for weeks and Martin disappearing on his way home from school the next day, she fears her prayers have been answered in dire ways.
This dark comedy dives into the expansive time between childhood and adolescence, exploring questions about the realities of home life to the possibilities of unknown worlds. Do This In Memory of Me is for anyone who has ever questioned the relationship between faith and trust or wondered where they fit in the bigger picture.The play was originally commissioned to be written in both English and French, so Cat wanted to find something that would resonate with audiences in both languages.Like Genevieve, Cat also grew up in a devoutly Catholic family and wanted to be an altar server when she was young in the ’80s, which still wasn’t allowed.Premiered in March 2018 at La Cité Francophone in a co-production by Northern Light Theatre and L’UniTheâtre in Edmonton.