The Good Canary

Can you imagine to see Ellen Page on stage in a theater? It looks like this will become a reality this year. According to Mr. Mudd's website, she will perform in the play “The Good Canary” written by Zach Helm and directed by “Juno” producer John Malkovich. The comedy has a length of around 110 minutes and is about Jack Parker, a novelist with a big future. However, his wife Annie spends her days cleaning the house and taking amphetamines. She has stopped eating and her mental state is increasingly more disastrous. Jack loves her deeply and attempts to help her, but they both hide a secret that's revealed because of her strange behavior....

Overall, the story is chiefly about love and is violent just like its characters and the script is charged with infuriating acid humour, which is both touching and spine-chilling. »It's a play about two young people who are very very much in love and it's a play about seven people who believed things to a great extent about other characters which are not true,« said Malkovich about the plot.

It's hard to say if the whole thing will take place in the USA or England at the moment. On the one hand there's the popular West End theatre in London, which is considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking world. And on the other hand, New York City has a playhouse with the same name and the press reported on »John Malkovich Eyes Return to Broadway« last year.

(Side note: At the request of Malkovich, Ellen attended a performance of »El buen canario« (Spanish language version) in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2008.)

(Source: www.mrmudd.com)