Playwright John Mighton has won Canada’s richest theatre prize for his entire body of work, which includes this year’s breakout hit, Half Life. The Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize, which pays CAN$100,000 to the winner, recognizes “a body of work by an artist in mid-career,” but there’s no question that the popularity of Mighton’s latest play was a factor in his win. “Last week, it was short-listed for the Governor-General’s Literary Awards, for English drama. Audiences have also embraced Mighton’s play, set in a nursing home and exploring memory loss as a natural and necessary part of human evolution.”