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Albert Schultz, Founding Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company, today announced the release of The Complete 150, a new, free, satirical audio drama written by Jason Sherman, directed by Wernham-West Director of Audio Programming Gregory J. Sinclair, and performed by the Soulpepper ensemble and special guests. The 16-episode series will be posted over the next eight weeks every Tuesday and Friday until Canada Day, with the premiere episode available for download as of 10 a.m. on May 9, at Soulpepper.ca/complete150. The Podcast will also be available on Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud. Listen to the trailer here.
The Complete 150 follows a greatly admired Canadian celebrity, Mark Armitage (Rick Roberts), as he leads a team of Federal party-planners in a milestone year of national celebration:
It’s Canada’s hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, and Ottawa’s throwing a party! Not just any party - a nationwide, year-long celebration of everything that makes this country worth celebrating! But a party this big needs a personality just as big to run it, and nobody’s bigger in Canada than Mark Armitage, a much loved and admired actor-director-producer-writer-actor (wait, we said that), hand-picked by the Prime Minister to make sure that July 1st, 2017 will be a day unlike any other day in this nation’s glorious past, present or future! There’s just one problem, which Mark and his crack staff soon discover: how do you throw a birthday party for a country that doesn’t want it?
The Complete 150 features the vocal talents of: Derek Boyes; Oliver Dennis; Raquel Duffy; Matthew Edison; Soulpepper Founding Member Stuart Hughes; Grace Lynn Kung; Soulpepper Founding Member Diego Matamoros; Michelle Monteith; Gregory Prest; Anand Rajaram; Rick Roberts; Brenda Robins; Paul Soles; and Soulpepper Founding Member William Webster.
The Complete 150 is generously supported by the Wernham-West Audio Project, and the Garland imagiNation Fund as part of Soulpepper’s ongoing nationwide commissioning project, Project imagiNation.
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Photo: Rick Roberts and Raquel Duffy. ©2017 Daniel Malavasi.
2017-05-03
Toronto: Soulpepper announces "The Complete 150" – a new satirical audio drama by Jason Sherman