Dave Carley

The Edible Woman: Based on the Novel by Margaret Atwood Dave Carley

Margaret Atwood’s internationally?renowned first novel has been brilliantly adapted for stage by playwright Dave Carley. With wit, affection and dollops of irony, The Edible Woman traces the journey of Marian, a young woman who has embraced the consumer society. Marian has a good job, a handsome lawyer?fiancé, and a conventionally bright future. But slowly Marian’s consumer world starts slipping out of focus, as she begins instead to identify with the things consumed. Compounding Marian’s confusion is her newly?pregnant roommate, her incensed landlady, and that strange young man she just kissed at the laundromat…