- Cam Christiansen gives playwright John Murrell's imagination free rein, suspending the laws of time and space to create a visual accompaniment to his flights of poetic fancy.
- In 2008, John Murrell (1945- ), playwright, librettist, and translator, received a lifetime achievement award from Canada's Governor General. To celebrate, this animated film dramatizes an interview with Murrell: he talks of he leaving home at 13, finding friends in books and writers and music, and seeking a real place for his characters from which he can create them fully before casting them out into the world. Murrell's reflections give way to actors speaking and singing his words. He concludes, "I have lived the luckiest life."—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
- John Murrell - playwright, librettist, and translator - presented in live action animation, talks about his work and the process in creating it. Having left home at age thirteen, he escaped the difficulties of his life through opera and the works of the many of his vast array of favorite writers, all who and which he considered his friends. In developing his own works, he lives within them, and much like the relationship with the aforementioned friends, those works become an intimate part of his being in his solitude. He considers them his own until they are fully realized, when he releases them "into the world". In what his life has become, he considers himself the luckiest person.—Huggo
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