Arts Club’s Redbone Coonhound delivers hard-hitting comedy
The newest release in the 2021–22 Listen to This: Audio Play Series comes from playwrights Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton
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Redbone Coonhound, a powerful new comedy, is the newest release in the Arts Club’s Listen to This: Audio Play Series.
Created by playwrights Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton, the piece begins streaming on January 27 and will be available until September 27.
Here’s the backstory: Out for a walk one afternoon in their West End neighbourhood, Mike and Marissa—an interracial couple—meet a dog with an unfortunate breed name: redbone coonhound. This small detail unleashes a cascading debate between them about race and their relationship that manifests as a series of micro-plays, each satirizing contemporary perspectives on modern culture. Through its hard-hitting comedic elements, Redbone Coonhound explores the intricacies of subtle and overt polemics of race, systemic power, and privilege in remarkable, surprising, and hilarious ways.
Each entertaining, thought-provoking work in the Listen to This series is created by a Western Canadian playwright who is affiliated with Arts Club’s Emerging Playwrights' Unit or Silver Commissions Project.
Subscribe for just $30 and get all four full audio plays upon release, or buy individual audio plays for $10 each. To enjoy Listen to This for free, subscribe on Spotify or Apple Podcasts to access short weekly episodes of each show.
For more information, visit the Arts Club.
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