Hannah Moscovitch is one of Canada's great working playwrights, and it's fascinating (maddening?) to read her strikingly assured early works. The short plays in this book are occasionally stagey and some of the passages (including nearly all of "Mexico City") feel like studies in form and style rather than narrative pieces, but younger Moscvitch has the same gift for beguiling, sympathetic monologuists which makes the very tiny little book a lovely read.