Felix Culpa and the 2010 Chutzpah! Festival present the World Premiere of
Donald and Lenore
By Tom Cone
Photo: Natasha Kanji
Lenore (Linda Quibell) has been performing her magical, musical floor show at the Tahitian Room in the Holiday/Everday Airport Hotel, three floors below parking. She works with a succession of dangerous paroled convicts, all of whom she calls "Donald". Everything rides on tonight's performance: Donald Number Seven (Billy Marchenski) wants to shake up the act by inserting his own material, and Lenore has secret plans for taking them to a new level. But something inexplicable is going on. Why are planes being diverted from the airport? What has happened to Donald's lover, Hernando? Who is in the elevator?
Donald and Lenore is a fiercely dark and comic play about survival, performance, American hegemony, tikis, incarceration, love and the powere to resist annihilation with a little bit of glamour.
The world premiere of a new work by internationally renowned playwright Tom Cone, author of Herringbone, True Mummy, Cubistique and the libretto for Vancouver Opera's The Architect.
Chutzpah! Wosk Cabaret
950 West 41st Avenue
March 6 - 20, 2010
Opens March 7
Saturday - Thursday @ 8pm (no Friday night performances)
Matinee March 14 @ 2pm
Free Preview Saturday March 6
Directed by David Bloom
Starring Billy Marchenski and Linda Quibell
Scenography by John Webber
Costumes by Karen Matthews
Compositions arranged by Peter Hurst
Tickets $24/$20
Single tickets through Chutzpah! Festival 604.257.5145 or online
See Seven passholders www.vancouvertix.com or call 604.637.8849
