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CABARET MACABRE

written by Jeff Fritz
directed by Mélanie Rada
production design by Johanna-Mai Vihalem

with
Byron Asher as the Maestro Jonaton
Jeff Fritz as Count Laczlo
Christopher Tucker as Xanatos Cerny
Vanessa Gendron as Mistress Celina
Mélanie Rada as Aida Venkovnova
Johanna-Mai Vihalem as Lady Magdalena
Ian Mikyska on guitar
Anar Yusufov on keys
Byron Asher on woodwinds




CABARET MACABRE has been terrorizing audiences throughout central and eastern Europe for over 400 years with theatrical dramas sucked from the lifeblood and folklore of violent centuries, retelling ghastly legends in the form of a musical horror show. Even after their untimely deaths during the great vampire terror of Peklovice in 1743, this talented group of actors and musicians refused to let mortality stand in the way of theatrical ambition. So they have been haunting the stages of Prague's most prestigious back-alley drinking establishments ever since that horrible night of carnage.

Photo by Nigel Robinson

KATATONIKA

directed by Mélanie Rada
original music by Jeff Fritz
story by Rada and Fritz

Jennifer Schuré stage manager
costumes Sarah Woodworth
Nigel Robinson photography
projections Simona Noera
Mélanie Rada lighting

with
Curtis Matthew as the Don
James High as the Bodyguard
Jeff Fritz as the Racketeer
Ani?ka ?imonová as Freaky Girl
Mick Swiney as Some Guy One
Frederic Franzil as Some Guy Two
Kathryn Hume-?van?arová as the Art Mogul
Damien Mitchell as the Street Artist
Anna Lit as the Nurse
Christopher Parsons as the Guitar Slinger


KATATONIKA is a rock n roll film noir theatre experience, a story of extras from action films crime dramas. These are Shakespeare?s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Unwitting pawns. They are us. People who live, work, steal, lie, cheat, then die. Normal people, no matter what their jobs or careers may be, are in one way or another, gangsters. We don?t necessarily like what we do or whom we are with, but we do it because society has told us to. And what we do makes money. We have jobs, we have money, we take money, we steal money, we lie, and we live on... or not. It's the story of people who do what they do because they don?t know any better or, if they do, they don't care.

Marat/Sade

Starring: Peter Zelenka as Jean-Paul Marat
Jenda Kolar as Marquis de Sade
Mikey Blount as The Herald
Aneta Kolblova as Charlotte Corday
Rikky Curtis as Duperret
Ron Prokes as Jacques Roux
Ruy Okamura as Coulmier
Zuzana Vesela as Simmone Evrard

and

Roman Xia, Vinh Nguyen, Kristian Kott, Martin Masek, Kishu Walia, Viteslav Becka, Betty Lit, Tereza Dajkova, Natalie Hendrychova, Andrew Do, Vaclav Spana
as the patients

Musicians
Logan Hillier, Jeff Fritz, Jiajia Wu and Mikey Blount as the singers
Broken Glass Extet
Starring:
Anar Yusufov on piano
Ian Miksyka on guitar
Music Directed by Ian Mikyska


Directed by Melanie Rada


A cast of patients from the mental clinic of Charenton never before on stage would like to you invite you to the play written by our own Marquis de Sade, who has kindly written this play for us about the bloodbaths of the French Revolution and the life and murder of Jean Paul Marat, a leading figure in the French Revolution in 1793. Of course today in 1808 we look back on this horrible incident with ease, for we are more civiliz...ed. Or are we...