Saskatchewan playwright selected to show at Paris Fringe Festival

From Saskatchewan to Paris, one Saskatoon playwright was selected to share her play at the Fringe Festival in Paris this month. 

"The original play is a meeting between two people who end up becoming a couple and re-enact their meeting on every single anniversary," said Natalie Feheregyhazi, a Saskatoon actress who adapted the play. 

Encore, the play, was developed by a Manitoba playwright about a couple that falls in love. 

A twist on the original play

Feheregyhazi decided to do things a little differently than the original play - in her version the play focuses on the first scene where the couple meets. Rather than re-enact the meeting for every anniversary, the play switches characters. 

The cast includes a diverse range of ethnicity and sexual orientations, but love is at the centre of it. 

"It's about connecting through diversity. Love transcends all cultures, all differences, and it's the most powerful unifying force," she said. 

"My idea was to bring people together from different age groups, different sexual orientations different cultural backgrounds, together with this goal of connection and see how their diversity really becomes the grain of connection." 

Feheregyhazi hopes that the play can show how even across cultures and ethnicity, human beings are the same. 

After Paris, she intends on bringing the play to Saskatchewan to share with the people of her home province.