PlaySmelter Presents: Paradise

Paradise
By Patti Flather
Directed by: Majdi Bou-Matar

Featuring Pam Patel, Aldrin Bundoc, Nicholas Cumming & Michael Peng

Set & Properties Design by David Skelton
Sound Design and Composition by Jordy Walker
Lighting Design by Jennifer Jimenez
Costume Design by Melaina Sheldon
Stage Managed by Zac Gungl

“Paradise: what you get when you cross a skilled, veteran playwright with a vibrant, movement-based theatre company. Gwaandak Theatre’s Patti Flather and the MT Space have come together to produce a show that is as beautiful as it is unsettling, linking stories of peaches, snakes, dogs, limericks, and ordinary people under stress.” – Ric Knowles, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Guelph

An unemployed logger, a young man accused of terrorism, a family doctor and his daughter, are all searching for their humanity inside the systems that cage us all. This play explores human rights, mental illness and addictions, and our own personal complicity in such urgent issues that surround us on daily basis. A poetic, complex and challenging work, Paradise is a beautiful marriage of the text and imagery of Patti Flather with the distinct physical style of MT Space.

*Paradise premiered at the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon in 2015 and was showcased at IMPACT 15 in Kitchener, Ontario.

Thursday May 3rd: 8:00 PM (With Artist Talkback)
Friday May 4th: 9:00 PM
Saturday May 5th: 8:00 PM (With Post-show VIP event for PlaySmelter All-In Festival Pass Holders)
Mainstage, Sudbury Theatre Centre

Tickets $30 | PlaySmelter All-In Festival Pass $85