The Zoo Story at Michael Young Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre Company

Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, directed by Frank Cox-O'Connell, is a darkly funny and unsettling one-act play that unfolds on a quiet park bench when a stranger named Jerry disrupts an ordinary afternoon for a man named Peter. Noah Reid and Peter Fernandes star in this intimate production, which cuts to the heart of loneliness, alienation, and the desperate human need for connection. Albee's blistering debut reveals how easily people misread one another — and how a single encounter can change everything.