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An Almost Perfect Thing

by (author) Nicole Moeller

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2014
Category
Women Authors, Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781770912076
    Publish Date
    Feb 2014
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

Greg is a once-respected journalist searching for a high-profile story that will help revive his career. Chloe is the missing girl he wrote about six years earlier who has just returned home to a world she no longer recognizes. Instead of leading police to her captor, Chloe turns to Greg to share her story. Unfortunately for him, Chloe won’t provide names or locations, and instead dictates exactly how the story should be told. But Chloe has become an international celebrity—both respected and scrutinized by the public—and they all want to know, who is her kidnapper? Why is she protecting him? When Greg begins to question whether truth and fiction have collided, he takes matters into his own hands, in spite of the drastic consequences. Even if that means coming face to face with Chloe’s abductor. An Almost Perfect Thing is a multi-perspective thriller about possession and desire, the need to own our stories, and our “right” to the truth.

About the author

Nicole’s plays include Without You, An Almost Perfect Thing, The Mothers, The Preacher, The Princess and a Crow, and The Ballad of Peachtree Rose. Nicole is the recipient of the Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play, the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama, Germany's New Canadian Play Competition official selection, and Alberta Theatre Projects’ Enbridge Established Playwright Award. Her work has also been seen in England, Germany, Czech Republic, and Australia. Nicole has been playwright-in-residence at Azimuth Theatre and Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre. She’s a Journalism and Theatre Arts graduate. Find her short fiction on a coffee cup or beer can near you.

Nicole Moeller's profile page

Awards

  • Winner, Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama
  • Commended, Neue Theaterstücke aus Kanada' National Competition
  • Winner, Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play

Editorial Reviews

"Moeller is a big talent: theatrically smart, surprising in her insights, and elliptical in her writing."

Liz Nicholls, Edmonton Journal

"… [a] dark and haunting new work."

Paul Blinov, Vue Weekly