An arrogant film-maker named Fred Justice has an epiphany in a Starbucks lineup and decides he wants to make a film about starving Africans to boost his flagging career, even though he knows little about Africa and even less about starvation. 

Fred hires a burnt-out Sharon Stone-type actress looking to rejuvenate her career to travel to Africa and hold babies on her lap, and enlists the support of an African diplomat and a would-be Japanese co-producer. Things get complicated when George, the diplomat, suddenly attempts a coup in the unnamed African country where Fred hopes to film, and kidnaps Fred's co-producer Yuki, who comes from a billionaire family.

The Project is a black comedy that pokes fun at our Hollywood "artists" with good intentions.  

Please visit Aaron Bushkowsky's website at: www.aaronbushkowsky.com

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The Project, by critically acclaimed playwright Aaron Bushkowsky, was first produced by Solo Collective Theatre in the fall of 2009 at Performance Works, Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada.  The production garnered 4 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations.

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"There are lots of funny lines here...Bushkowsky is a witty writer." - The Georgia Straight (Vancouver, Canada)

"This is the kind of play we need these days...this play, contentwise, was excellent." - Review Vancouver (Canada)

"Bushkowsky's Project pokes serious fun at manipulative reality TV...This Project is clever and funny. Unexpectedly it made me reflective after the curtain fell." - The Courier (Vancouver, Canada)  

"As a regular theatre-goer in Vancouver, it was a thrill to watch actors delivering a literate, intelligent script by someone who knows how to write." - Plank Magazine (Vancouver, Canada)