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 a comedy about winning, losing and taking chances,
in a site-specific production at Red Papaya Thai & Grill.
A stock trader falls for an indie blues singer who hangs out at her local café with a wily old 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 scheme in mind?
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 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
“Snakes are like women:
don’t be afraid of ‘em and they won’t strike you.”
DEAD CAT BOUNCE
DEAD CAT BOUNCE is a comedy about winning, losing and taking chances,
in a site-specific production at Red Papaya Thai & Grill.
A stock trader falls for an indie blues singer who hangs out at her local café with a wily old 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 scheme in mind?
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 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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Showtimes:
Thursday Oct. 13 @ 7 pm Saturday Oct. 15 @ 2 pm & @ 7 pm Sunday Oct. 16 @ 5 pm |
Media Contact:
[email protected], 416.834.2148 For more info please visit www.deadcatbounce.weebly.com |
Tickets $10 at the door
(cash sales only) |
