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Demons are people too. At least, they used to be. The World Premiere of INTERVIEW WITH A DEMON puts one such diabolical eyewitness on the ‘Hot Seat’ to explore what really happens in the afterlife.
B.SMART Productions and Beech Street Theatre Company proudly present Mark Terry’s INTERVIEW WITH A DEMON, November 10-15, 2015 at the Alumnae Theatre, featuring Time’s “vanguard of comedy's next generation” Seán Cullen as a Special Guest. Tickets are on sale via www.eventjoy.com/e/interview-with-a-demon.
Bradley Gibb has it all. A beautiful wife, a palatial home in the suburbs and a great job hosting the most popular talk show on television - The Hot Seat With Bradley Gibb. Then, one day, all hell breaks loose - his wife is unexpectedly possessed by a Demon and it looks like he might lose her altogether. Bradley ties her up to wait for the priest when it occurs to him that filming an actual exorcism for The Hot Seat would make for bombshell ratings. But when the exorcist shows up and the demon offers them an exclusive on-camera, no-holds-barred interview, the stakes go through the roof.
Written by Toronto filmmaker and theatre producer Mark Terry, this irreverent comedy will make you rethink everything you ever took as gospel truth (literally or metaphorically!)
Directed by horror-comedy specialist — and Artistic Director of the Beech Street Theatre Company — Michael Khashmanian (Serum for Murder, Franken’s Hyde), Interview with a Demon may play havoc with people’s understanding of Heaven and Hell, God and Satan, life and death – once they stop laughing, that is. “It’s a fascinating and very funny script,” said Khashmanian. “It may challenge your entire belief system.”
Special Guest and Canadian comedy legend Seán Cullen voices the Producer of The Hot Seat, the all-powerful ‘Tom’. Cullen (TV: Slings & Arrows, Murdoch Mysteries; Film: Saint Ralph, Phil The Alien; Stage: The Producers, Mirvish; A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Stratford Festival) is a multi-talented performer, a triple Gemini and Canadian Comedy Award winner, a Dora nominee, and an award-winning author.
The production stars Ryan Graham (Feature Films: The Architect, The Assassins Tale) as ambitious and opportunistic TV personality Bradley Gibb. His wife and The Hot Seat director, Boodle, is played by Vicktoria Adam (Hair, Edmonton Fringe; The Nightmare Before Christmas, Can’t Stand Sitting). The Hot Seat’s hapless cameraman Pat Lor is played by Alex Clay (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elora Community Theatre; Lifeboat, Small But Mighty) while exorcist Father Francis Flanagan is played by John Fitzgerald (The Long Weekend, The Odd Couple, Oshawa Little Theatre; Smalltime, Durham Shoestring Players).
B.SMART Producers Abigail Pinto Correia and Boyan Stergulc discovered the script in Cannes, France during the 2014 MIPCOM television market and immediately optioned its film rights. They are producing this stage version as part of its journey towards becoming a full feature film. “The play is hilarious and thought-provoking at the same time,” said Pinto Correia. “Intelligent comedies are hard to come by.”
Playwright Mark Terry, formerly Artistic Director of Toronto’s Bayview Playhouse Theatre, is perhaps best known these days as an environmental documentary filmmaker (The Antarctica Challenge, The Polar Explorer), but has returned to his theatre roots with this inter-dimensional exposé of the hereafter.
INTERVIEW WITH A DEMON:
Venue:
The Alumnae Theatre Mainspace, 70 Berkeley St, Toronto
Dates:
Tuesday Nov 10 — Sunday Nov 15 at 7:30pm** (Preview Nov 10, Opening Nov 11)
Matinee performance Sunday Nov 15 at 3:00pm
**Please note early curtain time
Tickets:
$25 each via www.eventjoy.com/e/interview-with-a-demon or at the door.
Preview tickets are $15.
2015-10-14
Toronto: B. Smart Productions presents "Interview with a Demon" November 10-15