Cast of World on Fire | Photo provided by the company
I understand the fraught humanity that writer-director George F. Walker is wrestling with here. Yes, there are many people who are not ok. We all have our unique, bumpy journeys, of course, ebbing and flowing with circumstances both in our control and out of it, but there are some whose not ok-ness is prolonged and especially wretched. World on Fire is about those folks and the system that looks after them—or doesn’t. At the centre of Walker’s play is an overworked social worker named Jules (Elizabeth Friesen) who cares very deeply about her little collection of suffering humans. Continue Reading