ALL THAT’S BEEN SAID
written during Mercedes’ Tarragon’s 2024/2025 RBC Emerging Playwright Residency
The RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwright Prize is one of the most prestigious playwriting awards in Canada, recognizing one exceptional emerging playwright with a cash prize, a year’s worth of dramaturgical support from Tarragon Theatre’s Artistic Staff, and a public reading during Tarragon’s annual Play Reading Week in June. The prize provides an emerging artist with the tools to overcome several of the barriers faced at the beginning of a playwriting career.
Over the course of the residency, Mercedes has been working on a new modern epic: All That’s Been Said.
About Tarragon’s RBC Emerging Playwright Residency
All That’s Been Said
(working title)
photos from Tarragon Theatre’s Playreading Week 2025
Is there nothing left to say about life?
There never was…
All That’s Been Said is a philosophically and chorally magnificent adventure story about the relationship between Someone and Azul.
Someone is in charge of leading Azul’s human soul through space, time, and life. When Someone makes a major fuck up in the eyes of the Great Council, they start to reexamine their role as an ethereal being.
This play asks what it means to be watched by the Gods in the modern age. It dives into the messy, aching truths of love, lust, betrayal, mortality, and self-loathing—truths embedded in every particle of our physical and spiritual selves, before, during, and after death. All That’s Been Said is the modern epic you’ve been waiting for: bold, humorous, tender, and unafraid to stare deep in the eye of the black hole.