Here on the Flight Path

Newspaper columnist John Cummings — in his late 40s, divorced and, apparently, estranged from his wife and children — spends a lot of time on his balcony, looking at the street, the world, and Life below. Carefree he may claim to be, with that novel he’s planning already written in his head — pretty much.

The apartment where John has landed is in an industrial section of Toronto, near the airport. Aircraft roar overhead, representing the movement of the world. John himself is motionless.

But the world can still come to John. Over the course of the three acts in “Here on the Flight Path,” the latest play by Cranbrook Community Theatre at the Studio Stage Door, John finds himself with three different neighbours, each women in different stages of life’s journey.

​Barry Coulter, Cranbrook Townsman