“A black comedy teetering on the edge of something tragic.” -12thnight.ca

A gang of six break into a mansion looking to loot themselves out of a drug debt. Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Colleen Murphy has crafted a black comedy full of youthful vigour that pushes resentment, violence, and class to an unavoidable emotional extreme. I Hope My Heart Burns First will take you to the edge of your seat, praying we all miss the head-on collision.

Content Advisory Extremely coarse language, loud noises, discussions of suicide, and depictions of violence, sexuality, and addiction.

I Hope My Heart Burns First is approximately two hours and fifteen minutes in length, with a ten minute intermission.

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I Hope My Heart Burns First is produced by arrangement with Kensington Literary Representation, 34 St. Andrew Street, Toronto, ON, M5T 1K6, kensingtonlit@rogers.com.
I Hope My Heart Burns First was commissioned by the University of Alberta’s Department of Drama and first produced in 2017 in the Timms Centre for the Arts.