St. John’s Short Play Festival: Elephants by Venus Argento Barrington|Is This the War? by Jillian Rees-Brown
September 14 at 2:00 PM
Pick Your Price: $5.50-$30.50
Festival Pass: $70.00
Note: Some plays contain mature themes. The recommended age is 14+
*This performance is a staged reading presentation in the Cox & Palmer Second Space.
Elephants by Venus Argento Barrington
As the end of the world looms, four women gather for a strange, makeshift Christmas party where existential dread, suppressed grief, and desperate hope unravel through arguments, laughter, and a surreal gift exchange.
Content Warnings: Themes of death; contains potential blasphemy, reference to child molestation
Is This the War? by Jillian Rees-Brown
While searching for the father she’d never known, Carmen comes to Bell Island, to find out if he might be the ‘Unknown Seaman’ buried there. She meets the Storykeeper and her Faeries who carry Carmen along the storytelling journey of the 1942 German U-boat attacks at Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Content Warnings: Descriptions of WW2 battle scenes
