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In Sled, Thompson trains her focus on Clinton Street, just one of the byways in Toronto's Annex region.
It was once, we are told by old Joe (played by J.W. Carroll) a trail down which cattle went placidly, unaware of the fate that awaited them at the slaughterhouse that marked trail's end.
It is a fate that will be shared by most of the Clinton denizens that populate Thompson's boulevard of broken dreams, but while they live, they are quite a crew.
There's lounge singer Anne Delaney and her cop husband Jack, played by Nancy Palk and Ron White. After 20 years, their flagging marriage appears to be in a renaissance of sorts -- at least until they run afoul of a shotgun and the hairpin trigger who owns it.
Then there's Evangeline (Pamela Matthews) and her long-lost half brother Kevin (Michael Mahonen) -- a family tragically torn apart in childhood only to be even more tragically reunited as adults.
And there's old Joe himself, a watcher, narrator, catalyst and ultimately a victim too, despite a life of inaction.
Link: Theater Review
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