Of the Vancouver Playhouse-CanStage (Toronto) co-production in February, 2002: The Edible Woman premiered at Theatre on the Grand in Fergus, Ontario, in October 2000, with the following cast and crew: Sara Chazen was director.Ĭecily Smith (Marian) from the Festival of New Works presentation, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The cast consisted of Nona Gerard, James Meade, Michael Messer, Casey Murphy, Julia Siple and Cecily Smith. The Edible Woman (the stage play) was first presented at the Festival of New Works at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, in May, 2000. The cast included Martha Burns, Ann-Marie Macdonald, Michael Riley and Albert Schultz. A quarter century later, Dave Carley dramatized it for radio, and that version was broadcast on CBC's Sunday Showcase, Monday Night Playhouse and This Morning programs in 1996. The Edible Woman (the novel) was first published in 1969 by McClelland and Stewart. She has been translated into over thirty languages. Margaret Atwood has won innumerable awards for her writing, including the Booker Prize, The Giller Award and the Governor General's Award for Fiction. She has also written many books of poetry, literary criticism and novels for children. Margaret Atwood is the author of ten novels, including Life Before Man (1979) The Handmaid's Tale (1985) The Robber Bride (1993) Alias Grace (1996) and The Blind Assassin (2000).
The novel was published in 1969 and was startlingly prescient if anything, its take on consumerism and the gender wars rings even louder today, over thirty years after the novel's publication. The Edible Woman is a black comedy, set in Toronto in the mid-Sixties. Michael Messer (Duncan) in The Festival of New Works production, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her home life is also spiraling out of control - her roommate Ainsley has decided to become pregnant, their landlady is on the warpath, and then there's the strange young man she just kissed at the laundromat… But slowly her world starts slipping out of focus and, instead of consuming, Marian begins identifying with the things consumed. Marian has a good job and a handsome lawyer-fiancé, Peter. With wit, affection and dollops of irony, Atwood traces the journey of Marian, a young woman who has embraced the consumer society. The Edible Woman was Margaret Atwood's first novel and it was an auspicious debut for the internationally renowned writer.
Marian's life seems to be perfect: a good job, interesting friends and a handsome fiancé.
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