You won’t find any references to the plot of Angus Cameron’s new play Luke in its program notes. Or you’ll find only oblique references: Luke is ‘a play of ideas, form, and people’, Cameron writes; it is about the ‘tension that exists between the individual, art, and reality’, the ‘theatrics of politics’.

I’ll defend every writer’s right to purply language in personal statements. But I was struck by how general these descriptions were.

Dion Mills and Will Lonsdale in Luke. Photo © Parenthesy

Created through Red Stitch Theatre’s INK Playwriting initiative, Luke is a story about storytelling. The core idea that connects these phrases is an interesting one: our identity is a narrative we fashion like any other. But to explore this idea, it tells another story not even implicitly referenced here: that of an English teacher, Damon (Dion Mills), who is accused of sexual harassment and grooming by an ex-student, Chris (Will Lonsdale), in a tell-all book that becomes a bestseller in 2007.

I would also not fault a writer for refusing to reveal the specifics of a plot like this at the risk of it appearing disingenuous or clickbaity. But...