Annie Rosenberg

A writer, playwright and actor, Annie is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Humber School for Creative Writing and the Playwrights Guild of Canada as well as Theatre Aquarius’ playwrights and performer/creators units. Her work has appeared in Reader’s Digest, Jelly Bucket, Stone Highway Review, Intermission Magazine, Marketing, the National Post, Upbeat, Double Reed, Hamilton Magazine, the Four-Cornered Universe and the Toronto Star. As an actor, she has worked with such companies as Theatre Beyond Words, Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, and the Golden Horseshoe Players.

A writer, playwright and actor, Annie is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Humber School for Creative Writing and the Playwrights Guild of Canada as well as Theatre Aquarius’ playwrights and performer/creators units. Her work has appeared in Reader’s Digest, Jelly Bucket, Stone Highway Review, Intermission Magazine, Marketing, the National Post, Upbeat, Double Reed, Hamilton Magazine, the Four-Cornered Universe and the Toronto Star. As an actor, she has worked with such companies as Theatre Beyond Words, Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, and the Golden Horseshoe Players.

Scripts

This Way Out

by Annie Rosenberg

Cast Size
4—5
Genre
drama,
political

This Way Out explores the meaning of home against the backdrop of deportation. In this play, we meet Nelson Ferreira, whose family has been deported from Toronto to the island of São Miguel, Azores. Nelson, who has not seen his birthplace since he was a small boy, yearns to return to Toronto as he struggles to understand his new home.

We also meet Sergio, a former whaler who fancies himself a Fado singer...

This Way Out explores the meaning of home against the backdrop of deportation. In this play, we meet Nelson Ferreira, whose family has been deported from Toronto to the island of São Miguel, Azores. Nelson, who has not seen his birthplace since he was a small boy, yearns to return to Toronto as he struggles to understand his new home.

We also meet Sergio, a former whaler who fancies himself a Fado singer. Sergio perpetually voices his desire to escape, to go to Lisboa. "I’ll get outta here on day,” he says. “I’ll go to Lisboa. Anyplace is better than here," he tells us.

And we meet João, who loves nothing more than tending to his beloved tomato garden while he waits in eternal hope for his beloved Sandy to join him in his island paradise.
The play takes place by turns in Nelson’s house in Toronto; in a tourist café in Ponta Delgada, Azores; and inside João’s beloved tomato garden. Commenting on it all is the Kindly Old Man, the truth teller and spirit of the island.

The play is text based, naturalistic, weaving in elements of the Portuguese language and culture. Though naturalistic in form, the emotions are larger than life, almost operatic in scope.

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