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If you’re in Toronto in the next couple of weeks, go and see “Art” at the St. Lawrence Centre. I swear, the character Yvan is an ADHD poster child. He says he “bummed around for 40 years”, but looks and acts like he’s in his 20s. He frantically searches for a lost pen-cap—which his friend finds immediately after Yvan leaves the room in search of something else. He’s always been the one who tries to smooth things over and make people feel better, usually by making them laugh. Because of this need to make everyone else feel better, he has no opinions of his own (which is why his friends call him an amoeba), and he allows others to essentially steamroll over him. His work history is one of little retail jobs, while his friends are a dermatologist and an engineer (the kind that builds things, not the kind that drives a train). At one point, he’s so overwhelmed by all the frustrations of planning his upcoming wedding, that he sets off on a show-stopping and hilarious three-and-a-half-minute stream-of-consciousness rant with nary a pause for breath.
That sure sounds like a character with ADHD, doesn’t it? But don’t see the play because of that; see it because it’s so well written and acted, and because it’s truly funny.
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