A Quiet Sip of Coffee (or, This is Not the Play We’ve Written) (2014)
Produced by
Presented by
The SummerWorks Performance Festival
Creators: Anthony Johnston and Nathan Schwartz
Director: Annie Tippe
Venue
Pia Bouman: Scotiabank Studio Theatre
Run
August 8th, 2014 – August 17th, 2014
Synopsis
In 2004, Anthony Johnston and Nathan Schwartz, self-proclaimed “gay/straight best friends duo,” wrote a prank letter to a fundamentalist organization asking for funds to produce their play, Never Cry Wolfman: a Play with Mask and Song in which the Monster Within is Summarily Defeated. To their surprise, the letter was answered, and they were invited to workshop the piece at the group’s retreat in rural British Columbia—on the condition that they also spend two weeks participating in gay conversion therapy…
In 2014, still struggling to come to terms with what truly transpired, the friends reunite to perform their conflicting accounts as a piece of theatre. The result is A Quiet Sip of Coffee: part docu-theatre, atonement ritual, melodrama, exorcism, and half-mask musical. (summerworks.ca)
Cast
| Anthony Johnston | Performer |
| Nathan Schwartz | Performer |
Creative Team
| Anthony Johnston | Creator |
| Nathan Schwartz | Creator |
| Annie Tippe | Director |
| Anita Rochon | Dramaturge |
Production
| Lisa Aikman | Stage Manager |
| Johnnie Walker | Producer |
Staff
| Joseph Patrick | Venue Technician |
| Joseph Patrick | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Andrew Brodkin | Venue Technician |
