The Perils of Persephone
directed by Sabrina DeSousa
Thurs.-Sat., Jan. 19-Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m.
The Davies Foundation Auditorium
52 Church St., Kingston, ON
Left to right: Doug McNichol, Tony McDermott, Sarah Knight, James Gow and Dale Jones |
Anyone who has seen any of the celebrated Wingfield series of one-man shows knows Persephone Township, that fictional rural Ontario locale where ex-stockbroker Walt Wingfield learned that farming isn't quite the bucolic fantasy he thought it was.
Well, times are tough in Persephone Township this summer. The weather has been so dry that the crops are failing, the wells are drying up, and Orval Currie is telling his sister-in-law Marj that she'd better put some extra muffins in the oven "cause yer gonna have forty-five Holstein cows in here tomorrow mornin' lookin' for somethin' to eat."
Lorna Jodoin (left) and Harper Caldwell. |
Of course Orval is feeling kind of grumpy anyway because he has hay to get in and his brother, Eldon, seems to be more interested in his job as Reeve of Persephone Township than in running the farm. And Eldon isn't having a good day either, because the local newspaper has got hold of the story that the province is looking for a place to put a toxic waste dump and Eldon is open to talking about putting it in Persephone Township.
So things are already a bit tense around the Currie farm when a truck goes off the road and into the swamp - the very swamp where Orval and Eldon's grandfather found remains of the Currie mammoth many years ago - and the alarm goes up that the truck is carrying nuclear waste. Pretty soon the government is involved, in the form of local MPP Hank Burford, who happens to be the Minister of Environment, and a government spin doctor. At which point you just know not all the bull---- is out in the pasture.
Cast |
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| Marj Currie | Lorna Jodoin |
| Eldon Currie | Doug McNichol |
| Orval Currie | Tony McDermott |
| Wendy Currie | Harper Caldwell |
| Henry Burford | James Gow |
| Skip Fuller | Sarah Knight |
| Francis Hinkley/Voice of Truck Driver | Dale Jones |
| Voice of Radio Host | Ian Clark |
Production Crew |
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| Producers | Bob Brooks Dylan Chenier |
| Director | Sabrina DeSousa |
| Stage Manager | Michelle McNichol |
| Asst. Stage Manager | Pat Gray |
| Set Design | Grant Buckler |
| Lighting Design | Bob Brooks Grant Buckler |
| Sound Design | Michael Gourgon |
| Costume Design | Liz Schell |
| Set Dressing | Liz Schell Grant Buckler |
| Lighting Operator | Murray Kerr |
| Sound Operators | James Leslie Michael Gourgon |
| Props | Tanya McDermott Pat Gray |
| Chief Carpenter | Grant Buckler |
| Set Construction | Bob Brooks John Corrigan James Gow Lorna Jodoin Rick Jodoin Doug McNichol Dave Oliver |
| Set Painting | James Gow Lorna Jodoin Tony McDermott Liz Schell Tanya McDermott Grant Buckler Dylan Chenier Pat Gray Suzanne DeSousa |
| Lobby Photography | Claudia Wade |
| Archival Photography | Grant Buckler |
| Poster Design | Katie Flower-Smith |
| Lobby Art Curator | Karen Peperkorn |
| Front of House Co-ordinator | Steve Powell |