Nasty Shadows Theatre Co. will be staging an evening of one-act plays to run in Saint John and Fredericton as follows:

House by Daniel MacIvor running in Saint John

The Dumb Waiter

by Harold Pinter
Performed by Andrew Jones & Matthew Spinney
Directed by Scott Shannon

House

by Daniel MacIvor
Performed by Scott Shannon
Directed by Robert Moore

The Dumb Waiter & House run in Fredericton.

WHERE/WHEN

SAINT JOHN: House ONLY
November 28th-29th (Thurs-Sat)
Hazen Hall Lecture Theatre
UNBSJ Campus
Tickets available at the door.
$5/person
Curtain time is 8pm.

FREDERICTON: The Dumb Waiter and House
December 3rd-5th (Wed-Fri)
Charlotte St. Arts Centre Auditorium (2nd Floor)
732 Charlotte Street
Tickets available at the door.
$10/adult; $8/student
Curtain time is 8pm.

With thanks to TheatreUNB for their support.

The Dumb Waiter

by Harold Pinter

The story of two men waiting in a basement for further instruction about the “job”. Questions and tensions mount as they continue to wait:
Gus: Eh, I’ve been meaning to ask you.
Ben: What the hell is it now?
Gus: Why did you stop the car this morning, in the middle of that road?
Ben: (lowering paper) I thought you were asleep?
Gus: I was, but I woke up when you stopped. You did stop, didn’t you?

Harold Pinter is a world famous playwright and has been making theatre since the 1950s. He has also certainly made his mark in the world of film and acting. Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 and the Swedish Academy cited him for being “generally regarded as the foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the 20th century.”

Official Harold Pinter web site.

House

by Daniel MacIvor

“My mother is possessed by the devil. My father is the saddest man in the world. My sister is in love with a dog. The one I love does not love me and I got no place to live.” House is a stand up sit down one man comedy nightmare about Victor, a man on the edge.

Daniel MacIvor is an award winning Canadian playwright/actor/director. Born in Cape Breton he has been creating new theatre since 1986. For 20 years MacIvor was the artistic director of his own company, da da kamera. He continues to create new theatre, and also works in film. In 2006 MacIvor won the Governor General’s award for Drama for his collection of plays I Still Love You. Also, Daniel MacIvor is this year’s recipient of the $100,000 Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, Canada’s largest theatre award, which is awarded to a mid-career playwright, director and designer on a three-year cycle.

Official Daniel MacIvor web site.

Comments/questions/information contact Scott Shannon
email – rshannon@unb.ca
phone – 476-6049

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