She Has A Name tackles the sex trafficking trade onstage
Liz Nicholls
The drama that opens its Edmonton run tonight as part of a 13-city cross-country tour propelled by audience response to an international disgrace: the sex trafficki…
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The drama that opens its Edmonton run tonight as part of a 13-city cross-country tour propelled by audience response to an international disgrace: the sex trafficking trade.

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The play, by Red Deer’s Andrew Kooman, chronicles the struggle of a Canadian lawyer (Carl Kennedy) to make a difference by building a case against a pimp, part of an Asia-wide ring, who’s trafficking underaged girls into a Bangkok brothel, The Pearl. He goes undercover, and develops a relationship with Prostitute number 18 (Emily Chew)Number 18.

The Burnt Thicket production, which premiered in 2011 and played recently at the Calgary Fringe, is directed and designed by Stephen Waldschmidt. It runs on the Catalyst stage (8529 Gateway Blvd.) Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., plus 2 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday, before it returns to Kooman’s hometown Oct. 2 to 6.Tickets: shehasaname.net or 1-800-838-3006.

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