Theatre worker aims to be musical star in Meredith Hambrock’s She’s a Lamb! [Video]

Meredith Hambrock’s dark satire She’s a Lamb! chronicles the story of a musical theatre worker who aims to be a star herself — partially based on the author’s own experience working as a theatre usher in Vancouver.

Hambrock is a novelist and television writer from Saskatoon. Her story You Should Go Over There was longlisted for the 2016 CBC Short Story Prize. She is also the author of the novel Other People’s Secrets, and her latest book, She’s a Lamb!, released last week.

It follows Jessamyn St. Germain, who’s tasked with supervising the children playing roles in a theatre production of The Sound of Music.

But St. Germain has much loftier ambitions, and the novel chronicles her journey as she tries to present herself as a star on the rise, with her desire for something more coming up against people who are trying to put her down.

LISTEN | Hambrock speaks to the CBC’s Margaret Gallagher: Vancouver writer Meredith Hambrock …