The Boy On The Raft

There was a reading at the Rose and Thistle on Water Street a couple of years ago. Joel Hynes and Lois Brown had teamed up to present some new work. Lois's writing culminated in this line: "Would the boy on the raft please come to shore?" Repeated. Via megaphone. By then-Premier A. Brian Peckford. It was classic Brown, an exuberant and preposterous catharsis, delivered dead straight.
We hear this morning that Lois has had an accident in Vancouver, where she is attending Magnetic North, directing Andy Jones in An Evening With Uncle Val. Our fingers are crossed; we hope, hope, hope for good news.

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