Sharon Bajer & Duncan Cox are two of Winnipeg’s battiest theatre dwellers who have co-written a brand new vampire musical premiering here in Winnipeg at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain later this month.
Sharon Bajer is an actress, director, playwright, acting teacher, and Manitoba's first-ever certified intimacy coordinator. She is also the founder of The Keep Theatre Company, a co-producer of Afterlight alongside Walk&Talk Theatre Company.
Duncan Cox, who you may recognize from our third episode with Walk&Talk, "Theatrical Alchemy", is a musical artist who works primarily as a composer/lyricist focusing on the genres of folk, rock, storytelling, and musical theatre. You may also have seen him play Depression in 'Breaking Up With Me' on our very stage earlier this spring, or as Roger in 'Rent' at Rainbow Stage this summer.
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In the nightly search for her missing husband, an elderly insomniac, Wanda, encounters a 500 year old suicidal vampire, Razvan, whom she invites into her history museum of a home. At its core, this is a story of universal truths about life and death, and the long road that unfolds between them. Afterlight is a darkly comedic and whimsical new musical about the unlikely romance that develops between two souls desperate to find the light at the end of the tunnel.
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SEPTEMBER 21 TO OCTOBER 1, 2023
Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain
Pauline-Boutal Hall
340 Provencher Blvd.
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Listen to the Afterlight - Original Cast Recording here
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This episode was recorded on August 23rd, 2023
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Interviewer - Andrew Davidson (Owner of The Gargoyle Theatre)
Interviewees - Duncan Cox (Walk&Talk Theatre) & Sharon Bajer (The Keep Theatre)
Recorded, Edited, and Produced by Rebecca Driedger
