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Rating Hat: Canadian Playwright and Walmart Worker

rating hat: But that's not how things go down in a George F. Walker play, according to NOW Magazine. In the Canadian playwright's latest dark comedy, Marcie Fiona Reid a down-on-her-luck middle-aged Walmart worker facing eviction, finds just such a cheque. Rating NNNNWhat would you do if you stumbled upon a lost cheque made out to cash that could change your life Many of us would do the honest thing and return it. But instead of returning it, she hatches a plan along with her stripper daughter, Jo Claire Burns and her best friend, Amie Anne van Leeuwen to keep the cash and make a fresh start. Within a standard low-rent living room set-up, director Wes Berger delivers a fast-paced, consistently hilarious take on the old found money conceit, exaggerating Walker's hard-hitting realism just a touch to get to good sitcom territory. This means out-smart harassing debt collectors, violent loan sharks and a shady strip club owner hell-bent on recovering the funds. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.