desire for something that he doesn't have. Sometimes we think so much about what we don't have that we forget to notice what we do have. But one of the things of Mexican culture that we find interesting is that there seems to be a kind of acceptance of death as part of the culture that's more comfortable than we generally are here in North America. So is that the significance of using the Day of the Dead as the setting, to show that contrast between Mexican culture and our own? Cathy: Yeah, there is something to learn from that that helps us to reflect on our own relationship with death. Is it safe to say the show has a sort of surreal feel to it? Cathy: For us the story is more related to the Latin American literary style that's called magical realism. In that kind of tradition, which is a cultural tradition, it can be unclear whether things are real or not real. There isn't really a distinction and also there can be a co-existence of the living and the non-living, and the past and the present can overlap and go back on each other. The way we're presenting this story, we were influenced, well I don't know if we were influenced by magical realism but it's in that style. Dream plays: November 15 th -- 16 th , 8pm @ Theatre Inconnu (1923 Fernwood Rd) November 17 th , 8pm @ First United Metropolitan Church (923 Balmoral