LSPU – Newfoundland Herald https://nfldherald.com Newfoundland's Entertainment Magazine Mon, 08 Nov 2021 10:10:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://nfldherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-FavIcon-32x32.png LSPU – Newfoundland Herald https://nfldherald.com 32 32 Supper Club https://nfldherald.com/supper-club/ https://nfldherald.com/supper-club/#respond Mon, 08 Nov 2021 10:10:20 +0000 https://nfldherald.com/?p=58957
Supper Club, a comedy that explores the complicated relationships between women through food, follows a doctor in the midst of an existential crisis, a fish out of water Cuban artist, ]]> Supper Club, written by Willow Kean, and directed by Nicole Rousseau, our Artistic Animateur, is heading to the stage.
Supper Club, a comedy that explores the complicated relationships between women through food, follows a doctor in the midst of an existential crisis, a fish out of water Cuban artist, a wine-guzzling anthropologist, a sort-of vegan, and an exhausted suburban hockey mom gather together to host dinner parties in their respective homes. Over the course of five meals on five different evenings, the relationships become fraught when secret resentments and alliances are gradually revealed, leaving the women to question how they all ended up eating at the same table in the first place.
“I thought it would be a great premise for a play, and everything clicked into place. Something about our two greatest comforts in hard times, food and friendship, but it had to be funny, and it had to let us all just breathe a bit. A bit of escapism, I suppose. And wow, we need that now more than ever,” said Willow Kean, on Supper Club.
Willow Kean is an actor and writer from Labrador West who now resides in St. John’s. She holds a BFA in theatre from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College and has spent twenty years working for several theatre companies across the province. Most recently, she was seen at The Hall playing Anne in The Father, long before Olivia Colman made it cool. Willow started writing collaboratively for the theatre over ten years ago, co-writing RCAT’s iFrancophone and c2c Theatre’s Robert Munsch adaptation Love You Forever and More Stories by Robert Munsch, both of which toured provincially. In 2014 she was shortlisted for The Cuffer Prize, and in 2018 was the winner of the Percy Janes First Novel Award. Most recently her non-fiction essay Checking it Twice won a 2020 NL Arts and Letters award. Willow gets angry, cooks, and writes about it at thelittleredchicken.com.

See Supper Club:

November 25th – 27th at 8pm
November 28th at 2pm
December 2nd – 4th at 8pm
December 5th at 2pm

November 27th  and December 4th at 8pm (Live Stream)

For more, visit www.rcatheatre.ca

]]> https://nfldherald.com/supper-club/feed/ 0 An ‘Altar’ for a ‘ghost’ing on stage at the LSPU Hall https://nfldherald.com/an-altar-for-a-ghosting-on-stage-at-the-lspu-hall/ https://nfldherald.com/an-altar-for-a-ghosting-on-stage-at-the-lspu-hall/#respond Mon, 08 Nov 2021 10:00:22 +0000 https://nfldherald.com/?p=58954 RCA Theatre is thrilled to announce Altar, their first Main Stage Production in the 2020-21 Season, starring Santiago Guzmán and directed by Meghan Greeley. A warm, witty, and moving work, Altar follows the story of Eugenio, his broken heart, and his path in trying to heal it. Eugenio has been in St. John’s less than a year, and he already has an ex-boyfriend who’s ghosted him – and he’s still not over it! Taking Día de Muertos (The Day of The Dead) and his father’s previous experience with paranormal activities as references, Eugenio sets up an altar (a central part of the Día de Muertos ritual) to summon his boyfriend’s ‘ghost’ to sort out the breakup once and for all. Will it be enough for Eugenio to forgive, forget, and love again?

Santiago Guzmán is a writer, performer, director and producer for theatre and film originally from Metepec, Mexico, now based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. He is the Artistic Director of TODOS Productions (NL), the Artistic Associate for Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (NS) and General Manager for Neighbourhood Dance Works (NL). He is a proud member of The Quilted Collective.

His work as a writer aims to put local, under-represented narratives and characters on the frontlines, whilst inviting audiences to appreciate the vibrancy of Newfoundland and Labrador from a diverse perspective.

His plays have been supported, developed and/or produced by theatre companies and festivals across the country, like TODOS Productions (NL), Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company (NL), Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland (NL), Rising Tide Theatre (NL), Neighbourhood Dance Works (NL), Eastern Front Theatre (NS), Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (NS), Ship’s Theatre Company (NS), Page1 Theatre (NS), Boca Del Lupo (BC), Paprika Festival (ON), and the National Theatre School of Canada’s Art Apart Program (QC). Santiago’s work is very gay, very brown, and very real.

For dates and show times visit www.rcatheatre.ca

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