The journey begins with two atmospheric art installations by Toronto performance artist Ulysses Castellanos. Once seated playgoers are shocked into reality by ghost screeching of relationships present followed by the chance meeting of two old friends.

Celeste and Natalie bump into each other at a coffee shop and disclose their romance status. Celeste (Ingrid Rae Doucet) is blunt about her present relationship with a lazy pot head and her sado-mascocitic affair with another man. Natalie (Anna Hardwich) listens attentively all the while masking her own unhappiness. Living in the stagnated world of financial stability does not remedy her troubled marriage.

The audience empathetically partakes in the volatile emotions with each character that’s introduced. Sidney (Michael Kash), the unhappily married divorce lawyer, justifies his infidelity as a way to get revenge on his first wife which ultimately torments the dedicated Marcia Marie (Mary Francis Moore). Henry (John Cleland) just can’t let go of financial fears after being taken to cleaners following a bitter divorce despite Natalie’s plea for a joint chequing account.

John Patrick Shanley’s emotionally powerful and beautifully creepy, Where’s My Money? gets a steady staging from the always impervious visionary David Ferry. The production also features original work by one of Toronto’s favourite folks/blues artists Kevin Quain (DORA Award winning Tequilla Vampire Matinee), a household musical name on Queen Street. His melodic, melancholy, and spine-tingling composition cause goose bumps and chills throughout the venue.

Can we truly ever escape the ghosts of lovers past or do we carry them through this lifetime and beyond? Where’s My Money? leaves the door wide open for ample conversation on such matters.