The Offering: Drawing on the classic tales of biblical patriarchs, The Offering explores timeless problems of communication between fathers and sons. In a trio of episodes, the play follows four generations of a single family as it struggles towards an ambiguous triumph.

Anton Piatigorsky has twice won the Dora Mavor Moore Award. Eternal Hydra, commissioned by the Stratford Festival, was called "one of the best Canadian plays of the past decade" by NOW magazine and will open in Vancouver at the Touchstone Theatre in October 2012. The chamber opera, Airline Icarus, for which he wrote the libretto, won the Italian Primo Fedora Award in 2011. He was most recently the playwright in residence for Soulpepper. His new play, Breath in Between, will have its premiers at Toronto's Summerworks Festival in August 2012.

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“Intense and sparse yet with a heartfelt core.” — plays INTERNATIONAL“The Offering ... operates on a level of theatrical precocity about which theatregoers can usually only daydream ... ultimately as fresh and engaging a demonstration of the dramatic possibilities of comedy as you’re likely to encounter on any stage.” — eye magazineThe Kabbalistic Psychoanalysis of Adam R. Tzaddik: Psychic conflicts take on mythological significance in a play about a young man's obsession with a sacred Jewish text. The play chronicles the psychoanalysis of Adam Tzaddik as he and his doctor uncover the root of Adam's denials and desires.“To raise such [intellectual questions without losing the human thread would be too much for most scripts, but to do so with such humour, compassion and verbal dexterity — that’s something special.” — eye magazine“A one-act play of such tight structure, such cerebral content and such sure drama that the thoughtful theatregoer could hardly fail to be impressed. Piatigorsky believes in a theatre of ideas and his achievement here ... is to rely simply on Adam’s emotional voyage for all the play’s drama. Indeed, Piatigorsky structures the piece like a taut little thriller.” — The Globe and Mail