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August 29, 2024 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Pay What You Can

music by James Rolfe | words by Luke Hathaway

dir. Guillaume Bernardi | assistant direction Henry Peirson
music dir. Daniel Cabena | assistant musical direction GaRRy Williams
stage management Elyssia Giancola | active listening & production assistance Claire Yurkovich
 
Featuring:
Henry Peirson (he/him) as PATRICK
Asitha Tennekoon (he/him) as EUGENE
Daniel Cabena (he/him) as BIRD
Brian McQueen (they/them) as LUCY
Lesley Emma Bouza (she/her) as REMI
Paul Genyk-Berezowsky (he/him) as BEN
 
& MME SOSOSTRIS’S CANTEEN HOUSE BAND: Richard Burrows (percussion), Aliayta Foon-Dancoes (violin), Juliet Palmer (clarinet), Garry Williams (piano), and friends
 
10C Shared Space | 42 Carden Street, Guelph, ON
Thursday, 29 August 2024 | 7 p.m.

A bronze-age transition story retold in 1940s America — retold in and for our own time. 

Caeneus presents us with a queer world in which the Army sanctions G.I. drag … only to turn around and criminalize/pathologize same-sex love and gender variance. 

The music, by James Rolfe, draws on 1940s soundworlds of vaudeville and cabaret — infused with older soundworlds that gesture to this story’s complex, ancient, and intercultural origins. 

 
For more information, or to reserve your spot (PWYC): [email protected]
 
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Possible pull-quote:
 

Madame Sosostris’s Cantine!

A beggar can become a queen,

a queen become a corporal,

the corporal can trade his stripes

for civvies of a Friday night —

and slip into his lover’s bed

and lovers paint the whole town red —

You wanna ditch an MPO,

come on, I’ll tell you where to go —

Madame Sosostris’s Cantine!