Cause and Effect:
A Hey Lady Production
A new one-act play by retired Osgoode Hall law professor, Alan Young. Comprised of 10 ambiguously connected scenes on the rising phenomena of mass shootings and mass murder.
When it comes down to it, we could say that toxic masculinity and the differentiating treatment of people of all genders is probably a root cause…We want a more simple answer than this. We want to be told that it’s because of violent video games, or abusive fathers, or as Amnesty International suggests, easy access to firearms. We all know that none of these are the entire answer… Cause & Effect looks at this desperate grasp for an answer, explores our need to cast blame in order to remove ourselves from the cause, and starts to get us thinking about the role women play in this narrative.
Madie Jolliffe, director of Cause and Effect
Directed by Leni Krivy and Madie Jolliffe. Produced by Leni Krivy. Set and Costumes by Maddy Hamilton. Lighting and Projections by Amy White. Sound by John Saigle. Stage managed by Kate Babin and Julie Reckziegal. Performances by Andy Sawyer, Joel Bernstein, Tim Daggs, Olivia Woods, Alyssa Angelucci-Wall and Vanessa Schmoelz.
“We know there are a lot of angry people in the world, but not everyone’s a ticking time bomb, but there is some core group of people that are exploding in these horrific shootings and we need to know what changes an angry person into a ticking time bomb, and I don’t think anybody knows.” Alan Young
