Between Us - Louis B. Hobson

When Calgary actor and administrator Meg Farhall was 21 she endured a horror that has haunted her ever since.

“I lost a dear friend. Her husband murdered her. Looking back, as I have done so often, there were things she tried to say that I didn’t understand. I was so young and I never dreamed this could happen to someone I loved,” says Farhall.

Unfortunately, this was not an isolated tragedy. In the ensuing years, Farhall would lose two more friends to domestic violence.

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“These deaths of women I knew intensified my need to get people talking about domestic violence. I knew I needed to write a play on the subject but I knew I couldn’t do it alone because I would turn the man into an extreme, moustache-twirling villain.”

(Louis B. Hobson, Calgary Herald)