Post Productions 2025 Season
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Celebrate the spooky season with two bone-chilling tales of horror brought to you by Post Productions at The Shadowbox Theatre . . . if you dare!
Post Productions is poised to resurrect the disturbingly satisfying horror genre of Grand Guignol, which ruled France’s theatre scene for decades. Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent God is a double-bill of spine-tingling one-act plays designed to elicit new insights by delving into the deepest recesses of human terror and discomfort -- intertwining psychological horror, body horror, supernatural horror, sociopolitical horror, and existential horror. You can count on Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent God to stir your emotions in the most raw and visceral manner possible while inspiring you to think about the pressing problems of our time through the incisive probing of ancient human taboos. Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent God offers two frightening plays for the price of one! In The Cuckoo Birds, Lucy, a young woman fleeing domestic violence seeks safety in a women’s crisis shelter. As secrets about her life gradually spill out of her, they unexpectedly resonate with the primordial beliefs of other women in the shelter – until Lucy fears that her haven may be her undoing . . . a ghastly trap from which she cannot escape. The second play, Mothers of Nothing, focuses on a group of mothers who gather in their parish church for a funeral reception following the untimely death of one of their sons. When violence erupts amongst the altar boys, and the priest is unable to help, the mothers are forced to confront truths that not only contradict their deepest beliefs but threaten their maternal identities. WHEN: October 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 & 25, 2025 @ 8:00 pm (doors open 7:30) WHERE: The Shadowbox Theatre (1501 Howard ave. – corner of Howard & Shepherd – Windsor, Ont.) HOW MUCH: First weekend, Oct. 10 & 11: $20 Second weekend, Oct. 16, 17 & 18: $25 Third weekend, Oct. 23, 24 & 25: $30 CAST The Cuckoo Birds CHANTEL PARÉ as Lucy Crowe ARCHER BENNETT as The Cripple RACHEL HILLIS as The Foreigner CHERI SCRATCH as Ms. Calhoun CAMRYN S. KINGSLEY as Robin COURTESY OLYMPIA LEBERT-DEAN as Annie-Frid MICHAEL K. POTTER as Dr. Frederickson Mothers of Nothing GABRIEL ROBINSON as Dominic Pascal MARCUS REAUME as Emmitt Huxley ARCHER BENNETT as Claire Pascal RACHEL HILLIS as Elizabeth Huxley COURTESY OLYMPIA LEBERT-DEAN as Chantal De Lubac CHANTEL PARÉ as Penelope Erasmus CAMRYN S. KINGSLEY as Margaret Anscomb CHERI SCRATCH as Birgitte Rahner MICHAEL K. POTTER as Father Gavin CREW Playwright: Michael K. Potter Directors: Michael K. Potter & Fay Lynn Producers: Fay Lynn & Michael K. Potter Stage Manager: Fay Lynn Assistant Stage Manager: Rochelle Emery-Luckett Set Designer: Fay Lynn Set & Prop Builders/Painters: Fay Lynn, Archer Bennett, & Kieran Potter Composer: Shane Trowbridge Special Effects Artist: Mitchell Branget Costumer & Makeup Artist: Archer Bennett Lighting & Sound Designer: Michael K. Potter Lighting & Sound Operator: Kieran Potter Promotional Photographer: Anthony Sheardown Photography Poster & Program Designer: Kris Simic Promoter: Michael K. Potter Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent God is brought to you by Post Productions in association with New Way Media Productions at The Shadowbox Theatre. |
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WHICH WAY, MILLENNIAL MAN? by Jonathan tessier
Copracorn by Kieran Potter
Puppets in the Hands of a Malevolent God by Michael K. Potter
Oct. 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 & 25
Only life matched the horror of the Grand Guignol, at one time the most popular genre of live theatre in France. The one-act plays of the Grand Guignol were masterpieces of horror, intertwining psychological horror, body horror, supernatural horror, and existential horror… among every other type. Now Post Productions is resurrecting this genre with a triple-bill of spine-tingling one-act plays guaranteed to make you squirm in your seat: Cuckoo Birds, The Mothers of Nothing, and A Deviant Sanctuary.
Only life matched the horror of the Grand Guignol, at one time the most popular genre of live theatre in France. The one-act plays of the Grand Guignol were masterpieces of horror, intertwining psychological horror, body horror, supernatural horror, and existential horror… among every other type. Now Post Productions is resurrecting this genre with a triple-bill of spine-tingling one-act plays guaranteed to make you squirm in your seat: Cuckoo Birds, The Mothers of Nothing, and A Deviant Sanctuary.
Crave by Sarah Kane
Dec. 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 & 20
It's Christmas, 1975. Family members gather in a luxurious home for reasons they're variously willing and unwilling to share in Sarah Kane's intensely personal, tender, and poetic drama. Before the night is over these people -- and the audience -- will face the devastation love, lust, hope, grief, and resignation can wreak on fragile human minds.
It's Christmas, 1975. Family members gather in a luxurious home for reasons they're variously willing and unwilling to share in Sarah Kane's intensely personal, tender, and poetic drama. Before the night is over these people -- and the audience -- will face the devastation love, lust, hope, grief, and resignation can wreak on fragile human minds.
