Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald
Season: 2017-18

Anything That Moves is a musical comedy set in a busy urban centre in the here-and-now. Joel is a florist and hapless romantic who has been unable to surface from a depression that set in when his mother died. Tyrone is his pragmatic – even cynical – best friend, for whom all’s fair in love and war and business and sex. His efforts to help Joel rejoin the land of living result in a series of mistaken sexual identities and hidden agendas when Jinny enters the scene. Jinny is a scientist and serial monogamist who has taken a vow of celibacy.

Her mother, Fleur, is a zealous sober alcoholic and red-hot “menopausal mamma”. Add a lesbian undertaker from Chatham to the mix along with a long-lost father and the possibilities are as madcap as they are poignant. Music by Allen Cole lifts the story into the sublime and ridiculous reaches of romantic comedy.