This week, Natasha Nadir chats with Vancouver-based playwright Sarah Shepherd to talk about their play, un/REAL.
un/REAL by Sarah Shepherd is a horror/science fiction play where Cesare, a person with a degenerative muscular disorder tries a new and experimental medical treatment. This involves being put into a medically induced coma and entering a Virtual Reality that attempts to replicate a "perfect life”.
Content Forecast: Medically assisted death/suicide, hospitalization.
Waveforms was produced by Realwheels Theatre with the co-operation of UBCP/ACTRA.
Cast:
JULIA ABREU as MAREN
NYX DEBOGORSKI as CESARE
KAITLYN YOTT as STAGE DIRECTIONS
Host: Natasha Nadir
Playwright: Sarah Shepherd
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.
