You'd expect French Canadians to basically be like regular Canadians with added
baguettes, but if Québécois playwright Catherine-Anne Toupin's
Right Now is
anything to go by, just speaking the language seems to inspire the kind of
theatrical mindfuck favoured by French writers like Florian Zeller. Alice (Lindsey
Campbell) and Ben (Sean Biggerstaff) are a young couple who've been living in their
flat for about six months; they seem settled enough but there's
an underlying awkwardness, and the occasional sound of a crying baby that only Alice
can hear is a pretty big clue to the cause of the tension. The sense of walking on
eggshells is smashed when the neighbours across the hall decide to introduce
themselves - Juliette (Maureen Beattie,) her husband Gilles (Guy Williams) and son
François (Dyfan Dwyfor) are soon inviting themselves round and making themselves
more than comfortable.
