The Shape of a girl goes far beyond a simple dramatization of the seemingly inexplicable code of silence and tacit complicity which surrounded the sensationalized Reena Virk murder in 1997 on which the play is based.-- Jewel is also based on a real life catastrophe, the sinking of the Ocean Ranger, an oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland, on Valentine's Day 1982. Three years later, widow Marjorie Clifford, at home in her trailer, in Fort St. John begins to take the first step in understanding that the humanity of love, in all of its tentative frality, uncertainty and promise can free a life paralysed and domi