Smokescreen Geordie Productions high-school touring production, presented to the public at Centaur for one night only Wednesday, April 28, 7pm. Writen by contemporary Canadian playwright David S. Craig and directed by Dean Patrick Fleming the artistic director of Geordie.The play is a riveting and realistic look at the not just adolescent drug culture but also its surrounding issues of obsession, addiction, control and fear. Audiences are left to find the answers.
The touring production has been presented across Quebec since September and this performance marked the end of the road for the production. An innovative and transportable set design and impressive performances by the cast, hold captivate our attention and imaginations. Drug consumption is another one of those sensitive topics that are a part of our everyday lives but that we tend not to speak openly about. This play grants permission to the audience to broach the topic. It is a serious topic treated in a play that is still comic and entertaining.
Trent a 16-year old marijuana smoker who doesn't want to understand the detrimental effects that getting high has on his life. His desperate and frustrated father has turned him in to the police. Having pressured his son into pleading guilty to dealing drugs, and continuing his pattern of keeping in control, the father then bribes a youth-care worker Rayzee into allowing him to eavesdrop on Trent's evaluation session. Rayzee has her own addictions to deal with and her encounter with Trent is full of great debate with many issue beyond that of drug abuse.
Featured great performances by all of the cast including Vanessa Schmit-Craan (Rayzee), Jimmy Blais (father), and Antoine Yared (Trent). Set and costume design by Ana Cappelluto.
Geordie Productions has been touring Quebec, Ontario, the Maritimes and Canada for over twenty-five years. To get more information about Geordie Productions and their English-language theatre for young audiences programming visit www.geordie.ca
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