Dylan Hewlett Photo Ray Strachan: Winnipeg Jewish Theatre

Winnipeg Jewish Theatre: GOOD Intentions, a topical new drama by emerging Winnipeg playwright Ginny Collins, follows a pair of well-meaning Canadians to South Africa to see if they're actually offering a hurting hand to the needy people they've come halfway across the world to help. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Good Intentions Winnipeg Jewish Theatre Until Oct. 20 at Berney Theatre Tickets: $40, $32 senior , $15 students at 204-477-7478 Four stars out of five Dylan Hewlett photo Ray Strachan as Godfrey and Andrea Houssin as Hannah. The central character is Hannah, an idealistic Jewish-Canadian doctor driven since medical school to spend her life doing good in parts of the globe that have long endured suffering. Her purpose is "tikkum olam" -- Hebrew for repairing or healing the world -- which refers to the Jewish obligation to fix what is broken in society. After meeting Peter, a non-Jewish economics student, at university, the two take up residence in a rural South African village. She runs a small hospital with Godfrey, a local doctor in training, while Peter sits at home researching traditional trade systems that might not have been as backward as colonists first thought. Theatre review (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.