This in-progress workshop presentation is our opportunity to show you what we've discovered in our devised laboratory over the past four weeks.

Blissfully ignorant, a young man at the tipping point between adolescence and adulthood is struck by lightning, shocking him into a free fall of survival, atonement, and search for self-knowledge. STRUCK is based on playwright Eric Rose's true story of surviving a lightning strike while camping with friends on Sudbury's Long Lake during the summer of 1999. The show explores the lightning strike as both physical and psychic mapping: fractured friendships, leaving home, losing loved ones - looking backward and forward in time from the point of view that can only be perceived in the electrified filament of one's mortality.

Rose originally wrote and performed the first act of STRUCK in Calgary as part of the 2005 Solocentric Festival. Recently, he was commissioned by Ghost River Theatre to develop a second act of the play. "My desire to revisit and re-contextualize this story was spurred by the sudden death of my father and recently entering into middle-age. As an artist, I find myself eager to explore and investigate themes surrounding growing up, mortality, home towns, and life's sudden and irrevocable moments of change." STRUCK reflects Rose's critically-acclaimed, highly-theatrical aesthetic as a compelling, thoughtful, and viscerally surprising experience created with a team of committed and insightful collaborators.

West Village Theatre is a vaccine mandatory space. If you plan to join us, please note we will need to see proof of our vaccination against COVID-19

Masks are mandatory.

Space is limited. Bar is open.

CREDITS

Eric Rose: Playwright/Director

Matthew Heiti: Dramaturg

Marina Buston: Assistant Director

Wladimiro A. Woyno R: Video/Projection Design and Technologist

Kerem Centinel: Lighting Designer

Robin Leveroos: Set & Properties Designer

Anton deGroot: Composer/Sound Designer

Skylar Desjardins: Technical Director

Tauran Wood: Production Assistant/Board Operator/Programmer

Kennedy Greene: Stage Manager

Kate Pallesen: Assistant Stage Manager

Matthew McKinney: Cinematography/Camera Operator

Andrew G.Cooper: Producer

Kate Stadel: Executive Director

Featuring:

Nathan Schmidt as Eric (Age 40)

Daniel J. Perryman as Eric (Age 21)