Press Release

For Immediate Release: September 26, 2016 • Please add to your listings/announcements 

 
“Snakes are like women:  
don’t be afraid of ‘em and they won’t strike you.” 

DEAD CAT BOUNCE 
 
DEAD CAT BOUNCE is an urban comedy about winning, losing and taking chances,  and life on the street, in a site-specific production at Red Papaya Thai & Grill, in the Old Quebec Street Mall.

A stock trader falls for an indie blues singer who hangs out at a café with a homeless man known as The Mayor.
Thomas plays by the numbers, calculates the risks and works his trading system, 
which is called the Dead Cat Bounce. Amara is a free spirit who “can’t hold down a job, drinks too much, 
and is a singer!” Can The Mayor bring this unlikely couple together with his ramblings about everything 
from snakes to Billy Jack movies? Or has he some other idea in mind? 

Toronto playwright Catherine Frid was inspired to write this play by a chance meeting, and then a series 
of lunches, with one of the most insightful men she ever met. “Don had an optimistic and down-to-earth 
approach to life, and astute observations about what was happening at his corner,” Frid says. “I told him 
I’d like to incorporate what he shared with me into a play and he thought it was a great idea.”  

DEAD CAT BOUNCE 
presented by Watercourse Theatre 
as part of The Second Annual Guelph Fringe Festival
 
Written by Catherine Frid • Directed by Joe Brenner
Stage Managed by Pat Northey
Starring Tom Bolton as The Mayor, Julia Haynes as Amara, and Michael Sutherland as Thomas 
at 
Red Papaya Thai & Grill, Old Quebec Street Mall
55 Wyndham Street North, Guelph
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Show Times:
Thursday October 13,  7 - 8 pm
Saturday October 15, 2 - 3 pm
Saturday October 15, 7 - 8 pm
Sunday October 16, 5 - 6 pm

Media Contact: 
Catherine Frid
​[email protected], 416.834.2148
More information is available at:
deadcatbounce.weebly.com 

Tickets:
$10 
at the Red Papaya Thai & Grill,
one hour before showtime
(cash only)