Homeward Bound (play)

Homeward Bound is a 1991 Canadian play drama by Elliott Hayes. It was originally commissioned and produced by the Stratford Festival.^[1][2][3]

Novelist Margaret Atwood wrote about the play: "Elliott Hayes has fashioned a brisk, intricate, deranging and tightly strung play...[his] art is a funhouse mirror, and what we see in it are fragments of ourselves, distorted, grotesque even, but recognizable.".^[4][5]

Canadian journalist and theatre artist Richard Ouzounian wrote in 2004 that Homeward Bound "remains one of the greatest plays that anybody has written in this country in my lifetime".^[6]

The play has also been translated into French by Jean-Marc Dalpé and Robert Marinier, as Tout va pour le mieux.^[7]

Productions

The play has been produced numerous times since its Stratford debut. Notable productions include:

• Theatre Three, Dallas (1992)^[8][9]
• Griffin Theatre Company, Illinois Theatre Center, Chicago (1992)^[10]
• Canadian Stage, Toronto (1994)^[11]
• Vancouver Playhouse (1995)
• Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg (1995)^[12]
• National Arts Centre, Ottawa (1999)^[13]
• Grand Theatre, London, Ontario (1999)^[14][15]
• Neptune Theatre, Halifax (2001)^[16]
• Citadel Theatre, Edmonton (2003)^[17]
• Gateway Theatre, Vancouver (2005)^[18]
• Western Gold Theatre, Vancouver (2017)^[19]