St. John’s Short Play Festival: things alive by Cheney Emberg | Dis’is’it by RiffRaff Productions | Featuring: Jazzberry Jam by Amanda Spencer-Parent|Gladys The Singing Ghost by Sam Chaulk
September 3, 5, & 7 at 7:00 PM
Pick Your Price: $10.50-$30.50
Festival Pass: $70.00
Note: Some plays may contain mature themes. The recommended age is 14+
things alive by Cheney Emberg
in a sharp stream-of-thought dialogue, a mother and child wander between past, present, and future, processing the consequences of their own agency, or lack of it. they attempt to navigate their relationship as honestly and with as much humour as possible, finding at which point their aliveness became selfishness, or whether they should be alive at all.
Content Warnings: language, conversations about/situations involving abortion, and one mention of gun violence.
Dis’is’it by RiffRaff Productions
The Mumphrey family have gathered at the church to celebrate Kevin Mumphreys wedding. But you need a bride to have a wedding. Gina Bixby, where are you?
Content Warnings: Some coarse language
Featuring: Jazzberry Jam by Amanda Spencer-Parent
Art is hard. Sometimes you’re stuck restarting a piece over and over again, getting more and more frustrated the more you try and fail. Sometimes you need a little help from an old friend.
Gladys The Singing Ghost by Sam Chaulk
Gladys The Singing Ghost was a 20th-century lounge singer who died tragically just as her career was plateauing. Now, she spends the afterlife as a spectral figure, appearing to perform tired jazz standards and lament her fate before dissolving back into ‘excruciating nothingness’.
Content Warnings: Audience Participation, Frank discussion of death and dying, (Potential for) Frank discussion of gender based violence and exploitation, (Potential for)Antiquated misogyny, racism and xenophobia, Loud/Abrupt Noises
