TROUT STANLEY
The American Premiere of Canadian Governor General award nominee Claudia Dey's "Trout Stanley", produced by Renaissant Arts Soho at the Culture Project, Manhattan. With Warren Sulatycky, Erika Rolfsrud, and Kelly McAndrew, directed by Jen Wineman. Warren Sulatycky, Artistic Director/Producer, Renaissant Arts.
Described by Variety as ‘Yukon Gothic,’ Claudia Dey’s acclaimed Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly Alley. In this inhospitable setting live a pair of sisters, twins who are not identical in any way: Sugar, a complicated, insecure waif who still wears the tracksuit her mother died in ten years prior, and Grace, a rough-and-tumble hellcat who owns the local dump. At the play’s opening, it is their thirtieth birthday, and the TV news has announced the disappearance of a local Scrabble-champ stripper. While Grace is at the dump, housebound Sugar is surprised by a mysterious drifter, one Trout Stanley, foot fetishist and fake cop, who is searching for the lake where his parents drowned – a fishy story if there ever was one. He quickly becomes mired in a surreal love triangle with the two sisters.
Trout Stanley is about three people who confuse codependence for co-operation and affliction for affection. An eccentric, captivating story in which the biggest catch of all is love.
"Hysterically funny . . . a deliciously lyrical piece of Canadian Gothic . . . could give wacky talkiness a good name" - New York Times.
