Apples in Winter

Canadian premiere | Drama

‘In Association with Hope and Hell Theatre Co.’

Written by Jennifer Fawcett
Directed by Robert Ross Parker

August 20 – 31 | OPENS August 22

Miriam's son is on death row and wants just one thing for his last meal: the apple pie she's made him since he was a little boy. As Miriam makes this last terrible pie, she must come to terms with her son's actions, with society's judgement, and with the devastating power of a mother's love.

Developed at the Banff Playwrights Colony, Apples in Winter received rave reviews during both its American and European runs.This is its Canadian premiere.

"Will leave you shaken and devastated and furious. An absolute must-see." - Theatre Things (London, UK)

Meet our Playwright and Director

Cast and Designers to be announced March 1st

  • Playwright

    Jennifer’s plays have been awarded the National New Play Network Smith Prize, the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, the Susan Glaspell Award, the Kennedy Center’s National Science Playwriting Award, the NEFA Theatre Project Award (with Working Group), and been produced regionally across the US. Her first novel, Beneath the Stairs, was published by Atria (Simon & Schuster) in 2022, and her second book, Keep This for Me, is forthcoming from Atria in October 2025. An expat Canadian, she made theatre for many years in Toronto before crossing the border.

  • Director

    Robert is a NYC based Canadian director, actor, and writer.   He is the co-founder of the Obie winning Vampire Cowboys.  He has directed all their productions including Soul Samurai, Alice in Slasherland, Fight Girl/Battle World, The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, and Revenge Song (Geffen Playhouse and Oregon Shakespeare Festival).   Other directing credits include Mothers (Playwrights Realm), Vietgone (RMTC), Disgraced (Mirvish, Citadel), Fast Company (Ensemble Studio Theatre), the world premier of She Kills Monsters (The Flea), and the award winning Hamlet (solo) (Hope and Hell) which has toured for more than fifteen years in the US, Canada and the UK, most recently Soulpepper. 

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Apples in Winter is produced by arrangement with Talent House Inc., 500A Bloor Street W., Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 1Y3.

Apples in Winter was first produced as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by Riverside Theatre, (Iowa), Centenary Stage, (New Jersey), and Phoenix Theatre, (Indiana). For more information please visit nnpn.org.