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Festival Week 1 - April 13 - 16

Fully Committed

by Becky Mode

based on characters created by Becky Mode and Mark Setlock

performed by Ash Mercia

directed by Tanya Ryga

A Broadway hit comedy, FULLY COMMITTED is a scathing poke at foodie culture. A send up of haute cuisine. The play follows a day in the life of Samantha, an out-of-work actress, who takes bookings from the rich and famous for Manhattan’s hottest restaurant. The callers are desperate to land a reservation using coercion, threats and bribes. Unfortunately, the restaurant is completely booked for Christmas which only ups the corrupt scheming of the upper crust. Under intense pressure from her egomaniacal bosses and her widowed Dad who wants her home for Christmas, Sam desperately tries for a last chance audition that just might turn her life around.

Surprisingly heartwarming, FULLY COMMITTED has over thirty wildly diverse characters side-splittingly portrayed by Red Deer actor and comedian Ash Mercia. This production is brought to us in collaboration with Sylvan Lake Theatre.

(Note: this show contains mature themes and language)

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Festival Week 2 - April 20 - 23

Double Bill

Enjoy Two One-Act Shows in One Sitting

The Commandment

written & performed by Phil Rickaby

directed by Richard Beaune

What happens when God chooses an atheist to deliver his newest Commandment?

This dark comedy is produced by Simple Truth Theatre and comes to Red Deer after playing to rave reviews at Fringe theatre festivals across the country. The Commandment won Best of Fringe at the Toronto Fringe and Outstanding Solo Show at the Fundy Fringe.

(NOTE: This play deals with difficult subject matter including blasphemy, suicide, mental illness and homelessness)

Here's what critics have to say:

“A roller coaster” - ★★★★★ - Grid City Magazine

“A well crafted story with surprising emotional impact” - MonkeyBiz.ca

“Highly Recommended” - Raise the Hammer

“Rickaby has commanding stage presence and storytelling prowess”

- ★★★★ - TWISI Theatre Blog

Searching for Marceau

written & performed by Trevor Copp

directed by Richard Beaune

Searching for Marceau finds a budding young Mime trying to make sense of his two fathers: the real one raising him and the far away Marcel Marceau. The battle between what is real and the imaginary in this theatre/mime piece reinvents Marcel Marceau’s Mime tradition for the 21st Century.

This piece, brought to us by Tottering Biped Theatre, has toured to Ottawa's Undercurrent Festival, Kitchener's Registry Theatre, Toronto's Pia Bouman studio, the LIVELab at McMaster University, the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, and the Toronto Fringe Festival where it received the 'Cutting Edge' Award.

Here's what critics have to say:

"Trevor Copp breaks the first rule of mime by talking in this unconventional

and enthralling solo show" - NNNNN - NOW Toronto

"Copp is a captivating performer, as skilled in verbally conveying heartfelt emotion

and landing deadpan laugh lines as in conjuring all kinds of objects, animals and experiences through his precise physicality" - ★★★ - Toronto Star

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