A contemporary work by an award-winning Canadian playwright is onstage at Douglas College in November.
Jordan Tannahill’s Concord Floral is on at the Douglas College Studio Theatre from Nov. 3 to 10. It’s presented by the theatre department and the department of stagecraft and event technology.
“I love the play and Tannahill’s writing – it’s edgy and funny,” said director Kathleen Duborg in a press release. “It’s an exceptional story by a Canadian playwright who’s spoken very eloquently about Canadian theatre.”
The play follows a group of teenagers who are hanging out in an abandoned million-square-foot greenhouse, where they discover an awful secret. When they go looking for answers, it sets off a chain of unstoppable events.
“It’s incredible, current, tough to do, exciting and scary. We’re working really hard on a complex play with 10 actors onstage and two moving walls. So everyone’s working hard to make the story,” Duborg said.
The play is a reimagining of Boccaccio’s medieval novella The Decameron, in which teens must flee a mysterious plague they seem to have brought upon themselves.
This production features theatre students Megan Hallam, Christian van Geyn, Etella Keenan, Leah Lueneberg, Sara Dunn, Amanda Topping, Maddie Severyn, Kayla Krishna and Amy Collisson, along with alumnus Michael Bernard.
Tickets are $20 general admission, and $10 for seniors, students, matinees and Talkback Tuesdays. For tickets and details, see concordfloral.brownpapertickets.com.
