This week, Natasha Nadir chats with Winnipeg-based playwright Ethan Stark to talk about his play, Sinking Ship.
Sinking Ship by Ethan Stark is a queer and modern re-imagining of Charon, the ferryman featured in Greek mythology. Since the beginning of humankind, they have been tasked with emotionally preparing the newly dead to go to the place you never come back from. Over and over again they get attached and over and over again they end up alone. One day, it is Charon’s childhood best friend, Arlo who ends up on the boat and Charon can’t bear to be parted from them again.
Content Forecast: Discussions of death and grief.
Waveforms was produced by Realwheels Theatre with the co-operation of UBCP/ACTRA.
Cast:
JULIA ABREU as CHARON
NYX DEBOGORSKI as ARLO
ANDY KALIRAI as STAGE DIRECTIONS
Host: Natasha Nadir
Playwright: Ethan Stark
Original Compositions and Sound Design: Finka Wood
Production Management: Jordyn Wood
Poster Graphic Design: Samantha Walters
This podcast is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, and the Hamber Foundation.
This production was recorded and broadcast from the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations at GGRP Sound Studios, as well as remotely from Treaty One Territory.
