Coming Soon:
Shrewd Productions presents the regional premiere of
FEAST.
by Megan Gogerty
An ancient magical creature disguised as a middle-aged lady has invited you to her dinner party in order to right a few wrongs. An immersive, visceral theatre experience where mythology crashes into pop culture, FEAST. reimagines the Beowulf story as a warning against the rising forces of authoritarianism. It's a dinner party that's also a one-woman show. It's a cry of resistance against tyranny. It's a revenge tale that ends in reconciliation. It's a FEAST.
Written by Megan Gogerty, directed by Melissa McKnight, and starring 7-time B. Iden Payne Best Actress winner Katherine Catmull, FEAST. asks - When will Justice be served?
The production team includes Amy Lewis (Lighting Design), Johann Solo (Sound Design), Shannon Grounds and Melissa McKnight (Set and Properties Design), with Stage Management by Fernando Lara and House Management by Vee Thorp.
“There is rage and rawness and biting satire in this show. There are plenty of things to make you laugh, but also tenderness that will draw tears.”
Culture Spot LA
“Thrillingly unconventional…”
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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“It is a confessional that transitions into a call to arms. And it is decidedly not ordinary theater.”
Talkin' Broadway
When:
April 25th - May 17th, Thursdays - Saturdays at 8pm.
For those with Dinner Guest Tickets, please arrive by 6:45pm.
Where:
About the Playwright:
Megan Gogerty is a playwright and comedian. Her solo show Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the Audience Pick of the Fringe at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Her play Bad Panda (Theatre Without Borders, Beijing; Iron Crow Theatre Co.; WordBRIDGE Boomerang Playwright honoree) is published by Original Works Publishing and was translated into Spanish for a five-month run at Del Teatro Milan in Mexico City. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution listed her solo show Hillary Clinton Got Me Pregnant in their yearly Top Ten Best Plays. Megan’s musical drama Love Jerry was produced in the New York Musical Theatre Festival where it won three Talkin’ Broadway Citations and four NYMF Excellence Awards including Excellence in Writing (Book). Her ten-minute play Rumple Schmumple (Dramatic Pub.) was a Kennedy Center/National ACTF honoree. Megan was a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow, a WordBRIDGE alum, and she earned her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently teaches playwriting at the University of Iowa and is a regularly returning visiting faculty for the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University.