The endearingly ditzy Pochsy is back in a new monologue!

Pochsy used to work at Mercury Packers. Where she packed mercury. Until her job got off-shored. Now she’s keeping suuuuper-busy taking gummies and thinking about rescue dogs, Joni Mitchell, gender, and pandas. And then she wins a cruise …

This is a dark comedy. Not for children. It's like a concert inside a mind inside a body sailing the River of Contemporary Consciousness. Pochsy offers herself up as a kind of salve for your 3:33 a.m. worries and dreams, from neo-banking to the future of humankind.

This monologue follows the acclaimed trilogy of The Pochsy Plays, which have travelled the globe.

Karen Hines is the author of Crawlspace, All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, Drama: Pilot Episode, Hello... Hello (A Romantic Satire) and The Pochsy Plays – all published by Coach House Books. Her plays and productions have been presented internationally and have won many production and literary nominations and awards including twice being finalist for the Governor General's Award for Drama. A Second City alumna, Karen has also appeared in numerous television and film productions and is the award-winning director of cult horror clowns Mump & Smoot. She lives in Calgary.

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“Hines is nothing if not an original.” – The Globe and Mail on Drama

“A funny, thought-provoking and devastating look at the lunacy and hypocrisy that we've all learned to live with in late 20th century America.” – Rocky Mountain News on The Pochsy Plays

“Ingenious, acidic comedy.” – The Globe and Mail on The Pochsy Plays

“[Hines is] one of the most original artists in the city.” – Toronto Life