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Eighteen-year-old Connor, an aspiring writer whose fantastical tales foretell his transforming into fight with melancholy, can’t wait to be freed from his adverb-wielding, solve-it-all mom, Sharon. yet six weeks after leaving for college, he drops out and returns home.

Dan Mulano is an infatuated new dad and well-meaning police officer whose selfishness is veiled by means of the lofty aspirations he holds for his family members. His spouse, Janie, a former addict and exhausted new mother, struggles to deal with the demanding situations of restoration in the course of her conflict with postpartum melancholy, which Dan dismisses as “just hormones.”

A precipitous incident brings the 2 households jointly. while Connor’s erratic behaviour at an underground educate station calls for police intervention, Dan responds to the decision and makes the arrest, however the teen’s jaw is damaged throughout the incident. Is it police brutality or self-harm? For Sharon, there isn't any query; she portrays Dan as a reckless cop within the media, whereas he is still silent, refusing to wreck protocol and
tell his story.

Inspired by way of an occasion in British Columbia that shattered the public’s self belief within the police – the 2007 Tasering dying of Robert Dziekanski in the course of his arrest on the Vancouver airport – The Valley dramatizes the unstable courting among legislation enforcement and other people within the grip of psychological affliction. In addressing this fraught courting, award-winning playwright Joan MacLeod empathizes with either events, each one of whom is guided by way of solid intentions yet both challenged via their very own cultural biases and fallacious humanity.