Is there anything older than the story of civilized folk trapped on a desert island? This particular telling of this age-old tale centres around a loving yet strangely indifferent father whose powers are failing him, his fantastically nasty dogsbody of a spirit helper, his estranged daughter and her several alter-egos, and last and (too often) least, a colonized son/brother — the island’s only indigenous inhabitant — who has yet to figure out the rules governing the master race’s notions of “civil conversation.” Sound familiar? Rougher Magic: A cubist Shakespeare, is written through as much as around Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Using one of the Bard’s final plays as the source for a stunningly original story, Rougher Magic, is a funny and moving ‘deconstruction’ of the various ways in which The Tempest – that extended meditation on the inevitability of death – constructs race and gender. Robert Moore’s Rougher Magic, directed by fellow Shadow co-founder, Scott Shannon, and performed by a tribe of veteran ‘Nasties,’ offers an unforgettable theatrical adventure for cast and audience alike.

WARNING: This show contains wildly loose (possibly offensive?) language and subject matter — use your imganination!

~ 2 CITIES / 4 FEATURED FRIDAYS!!! ~
@7:30pm nightly
Nov 14th @TNB Studio Theatre, Fredericton
Nov 21st @Sanctuary Theatre , Saint John
Nov 28th @Sanctuary Theatre , Saint John
Dec 5th @TNB Studio Theatre, Fredericton

Tickets available at the door: $10/person

FREDERICTON:
TNB Studio Theatre
55 Whiting Road – Unit 31
– Industrial Park – 6 minute drive from downtown! –
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SAINT JOHN:
Sanctuary Theatre
228 Germain St.
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