Anniversary is built on a triple irony: one couple in the play are married and pretending to be close to separation. Another couple, who are separated, are pretending to be married. And the third irony is that the separated couple are still emotionally together, while the married couple have already emotionally separated ... Tom’s passion for the environment, Dianne’s redemption through crafts and coffee, Ben’s and Shirley’s confusion over their private/public lives, Garth’s attempt to mask his pain with irony — all of the characters in this play behave foolishly at times, but each of these characters deserves a presence on that narrow and difficult balancing beam of respect and humour. — from the playwrights’ introduction

“Anniversary is a compact little gem of a play ... tense, comic and poignant.” — Winnipeg Free Press“The intelligence and honest emotion ... captures all the veiled and kissy-kissy artifice of upwardly mobile suburbia.” — Toronto Star