3 FREE* FRIDAYS for FREDDY
*or PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL

~ FREDERICTON ~

~ MONCTON ~

FUNDY FRINGE FESTIVAL 2022
**OUTSTANDING SOLO SHOW**

Nasty Shadows Theatre Company
Are You In ISOLATION JONES
~ Distending an Earlier Work ~
PART II-Q of “THE GREAT SECULSION” MYTH
Written/Directed/Performed by Scott Shannon
Dramaturgical Intervention by Alicia McLaughlin

X is back in another Solo-Shadow-Session but instead of offering a Confessional, this time he’s preparing to share some bad news and hoping the audience can help him practice the sad saga he has to share with the Other Shadows. Join X for this theatrical Eulogy to a Storyteller, a Tale of Woe he has to weave to soothe the sorrow.

X is here; You are not

In memory of an Unseen Shadow.

~ 4 FREE* FRIDAYS for FREDDY
*or PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL
Jan 27th @7:30PM **RE-SCHEDULED**
Feb 24th @7:30PM
April 21st @7:30PM
May 19th @7:30PM
Memorial Hall, UNB Campus, FREDERICTON

November 2022 promo video

ORIGINAL ISOLATION JONES SHORT-PIECE CREATED & PRODUCED FOR INCLUSION IN
2020’S ‘THE FIFTH WALL’
(Work developed for production during Fredericton’s first (and hopefully last) drive-in/socially distanced theatre event produced by HERBERT THE COW PRODUCTIONS & NASTY SHADOWS THEATRE COMPANY.)

poster & photos by Michael Holmes-Lauder
Fundy Fringe Festival photos by Andrew Finlay

Theatrically Nasty Thoughts – Edition #10
Emerging from ISOLATION to VANYA

Scott Shannon as ‘Astrov’ in UNCLE VANYA (photo by Jeremy Fowler)

Having just experienced two drastically different spectrums of my theatrical adventures, I thought it was a good time to refresh this Theatrically Nasty Thoughts series of writings I tried to keep going moons ago … thinking on the work and processes helps enrich my experience overall – this is the time for reflection and an analytic approach to what happened so I can learn to use or avoid certain behaviours in the future. When I’m in a project, I’m *in* it with a much different frame of mind than what I’m doing here …

I’ll be delving DEEP into this past year’s work on my own solo piece, Are You In ISOLATION JONES, in and over which I had complete control and involvement in all aspects, and contrasting/comparing that with the group-oriented work I was fortunate to absorb with The Next Folding Theatre Company’s production of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

I’m going to follow my year, beginning with spring 2022 … [READ MORE OF THE NASTY THOUGHT >>>]

Ducky & Murdock
Looking to Fall

Crystal Chettiar & Michael Holmes-Lauder rehearsing Standing At Opposite Ends Are Ducky & Murdock

STANDING AT OPPOSITE ENDS ARE DUCKY & MURDOCK
written by Scott Shannon

CAST/CREW

• Ducky – Becky Forbes | Crystal Chettiar | Amanda Thorne
• Murdock – Scott Shannon | Michael Holmes-Lauder | Simon Peterson | Jason McIntyre | Carter Scott

Writer / Director – Scott Shannon

A seemingly simple story about a young woman and young man in love during wartime, but with a Nasty touch from the Shadows.

STANDING AT OPPOSITE ENDS ARE DUCKY & MURDOCK
Notes – Nov/2022
Some plans are once again in the works … time will tell but hoping so much that we can finally bring this story to a “stage” of sorts … Ducky & Murdock need to play for an audience*.

* This play is also exploring that unknown future as the world where my plays occur – everything I’ve completed or am currently working on ties into “The Great Seclusion” … but this story veers away in a different direction than the Shadows-saga I’ve recently carved out.

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~ LINKS TO NASTY STUFF ~

• Past Productions — find details about past Nasty shows from 1999-Present
• Shadow Shows — Scott’s attempt to track development of Nasty new work
• Rehearsal Notes — ramblings by Scott about current and past rehearsals
• Reviews & Articles — media coverage from 1999-Present
• Theatrically Nasty Thoughts — random ponderings by Scott about this thing called “theatre”
• Shadows — here you can find information about members of the Company:
  • Seen (Active Shadows in Current Productions)
  • Unseen (Hidden Shadows from Past Productions)

We are always looking for anyone interested in any aspects of backstage work, from publicity to stage managing, to technical work involving lights and sound — you folks are the true Shadows.

For those interested in working off-stage in any capacity, please send an email to nastyshadows@gmail.com at anytime with the subject line: NASTY CREW. Please include what your area of interest might be and any relevant experience you wish to note.

Scott Shannon as ‘Jones’; Annick Blizzard as ‘Vic’; Michael Holmes-Lauder as ‘Chael’ in A STORY JONES