Theatre at SLC

Two theatre productions are in the works again this year!

Theatre Production : Unity (1918)
Presented April 4, 5, 6 and 7 2012 at 8:00 pm in the cafeteria
Text: Kevin Kerr                      Translation: Paul Lefèbvre
Director: Mary-Lee Picknell     Music: Charles-Auguste Lehoux

Actors:
Carmen Rachiteanu      Audrey Dufour
Jason Ellis                    Gabrielle Jacobs
David Kirkegaard          Félix Larose-Tarabulsy
Rosalie Lessard            Tarik Pasic
Andréanne Poirier         Marie-Maude Potvin
 
Unity (1918)          Synopsis:
In the fall of 1918, a world ravaged by four years of war was suddenly hit by a mysterious and deadly plague – the “Spanish Flu”. The illness struck not only the young and the elderly, but also people in the prime of their lives, advancing rapidly toward mortality in its victims. This brought the terror, the panic, the horror and the sense of helplessness of the “Great War” home with the returning soldiers – more people died of this epidemic than had been killed in battle throughout the armed conflict.

As fear of the dreaded flu begins to fill the town of Unity with paranoia, drastic measures are taken. The town is quarantined in an attempt to keep the illness out. Trains are forbidden to stop, no one can enter, and the borders are sealed. Mail from overseas, feared to be carrying the deadly virus, is gathered and burned.  But  when the disease descends upon the town despite these precautions, the citizens begin to turn on each other as they attempt to find a scapegoat for the crisis.