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Love in the bleachers.  Blood on the ice.  The usual small town affair.

Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad by Michael Melski is a slashing two-hander about two lonely single parents who meet and fall in love while watching their kids play a season of minor hockey.  In their section of the bleachers in an old rink, they find the best and worst in themselves reflected by the game.  Love and violence collide in this tender, uproarious, and sometimes disturbing story about our national obsession.

Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad has delighted traditional theatre goers and critics, and just as significant it has also brought new audiences to the theatre - those who typically are more familiar with the arena than the stage.

June 15 - 25, 2011: Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts 205 8th Avenue, SE Calgary, AB T2G 0K9, Canada Box Office: (403) 294-9494.

Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad was first produced by Two Planks Theatre Company on tour throughout Nova Scotia, PEI and New Brunswick in 1999 and throughout the rest of Canada from 2000-2001. 

In 2003 it was produced at the Factory Theatre (Toronto) and revived later that year in a production that enjoyed sold out shows and garnered rave reviews.   The production was honoured with numerous Dora nominations and it drew national attention from all the major regional theatres.  It has since been produced in dozens of other Canadian cities, scoring with audiences and critics alike everywhere it's mounted.

In 2010 Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad made its US debut with simultaneous productions at the Actors Theatre of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) and Stoneham Theatre (Stoneham, MA).

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"And like a cup of doughnut-shop coffee, Stoneham's production goes down smooth." - The Boston Herald (Boston, MA, United States)

"Hockey Parent Play Scores with endearing realism...[Michael Melski] writes like people talk and if that isn't a definition of good dialogue then I don't know what is." - The Toronto Star (Toronto, Canada)

"Melski Scores Big with Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad" - The Chronicle Herald (Halifax, NS, Canada)

"Great Double Act Shoots and Scores" - The Globe & Mail (Toronto/National, Canada)

"Hockey Play Shoots - Scores! This poignant, involving play takes a simple love story between ordinary people and transforms it into something quite wonderful." - The Edmonton Sun (Edmonton, AB, Canada)

"Scoring on the Sidelines...charm, humour and skill...Michael Melski's Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad has these qualities, plus a setting that's commonplace in the outside world but unusual to the point of being exotic in the theatre - a double recommendation." - The National Post (Toronto/National, Canada)

"Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad A Winner - Persephone Theatre scores on a breakaway with Hockey Mom Hockey Dad...The Canadian play by Michael Melski may be the first romantic comedy set in a rink, and it's a good one." - The Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, SK, Canada)

"...[Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad is a] complex weave of feints and gambits, offence and defense, between two people for whom you have feelings..." - Edmonton Journal (Edmonton, AB, Canada)

"...This show is much more about the game of love than the game of hockey, but Melski doesn't spare the barbs when it comes to showing the beastly behaviour of overly-serious hockey parents. Most of it is in a humorous vein, but the point is made." - The Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, SK, Canada)