Head In A Bag

Head in a Bag and Stone Age are the before and after of a Cold War comedy.

Head in a Bag is the story of Igor Gouzenko, the Soviet cipher clerk, whose defection with an armload of secret documents from the Soviet embassy in 1945 is said to have begun the Cold War. His clownish and desperate escape ricochets from the hallowed halls of the Canadian government, to the arms of a bumbling Mountie, to a hospital delivery room.

Stone Age is a satire on the state of Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Dust settles on dead and resentful dictators. Gorbachev is lost in the dark. The Prime Minister of a newly independent country succumbs to the lure of bananas. Ellen and Sapphire are trapped in their ideologies as a new Wall goes up in Canada, 1999. The wandering Crone chronicles the rising and falling temperature of the times in both plays. Head in a Bag/Stone Age was produced by Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, 1992.