“I have this weird, horrible habit of writing things that come true,” playwright Alex Vickery-Howe tells InReview.

A few years ago, Vickery-Howe wrote a play about the “far-fetched” premise that a novel disease might make the jump from animals to humans and cause all kinds of chaos.

“I wouldn’t say I predicted Covid,” he says wryly. “[But] this can kind of happen, where you write something, and then the ground shifts under you, and you suddenly go, ‘Oh, everything that was speculative now feels like it’s after the fact’.”

That play, Watchlist, was eventually mounted at The Bakehouse Theatre in 2021 to glowing reviews – “an ambitious comedy with a sharp message,” wrote InReview ’s Murray Bramwell at the time.

Now, Vickery-Howe is about to unveil a new work, Triggered, that arri

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