Nigeria

(A Staged Reading)










Tuesday June 9th. 8pm at the New Play festival
Granville Island

Written By: Martin Gover
Director: Heidi Taylor


Featuring:

Todd Thomson as Peter

Carmen Aguirre as Joan

Medina Hahn as Kris


Vague dreams of Africa real and unreal.

A three-way power struggle, with seduction at its core. What is fiction? What is reality? When our current reality becomes untenable, how do we escape?


EXTRACT SCENE TWO.

JOAN Peter has... a way about him.

KRIS He does have -

JOAN Don’t you? Magic.

PETER Well I -

JOAN He is remarkable in some ways.

KRIS I noticed the energy, the -

JOAN But then not in others.

PETER(to Kris) Joan and I go way back.

KRIS Well yes...I see that…

JOAN Way back.

Pause

KRIS So..really...a healing?

JOAN An event.

KRIS Ok...but ...how? I mean...how was it? Was it…I don’t know – amazing?

Pause

JOAN Peter?

PETER What?

JOAN How was it?

Beat

PETER A nightmare.

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