Arts Club Theatre Company announces Rolling World Premiere of Redbone Coonhound

The play by Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton is an Arts Club Silver Commission

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Amy Lee Lavoie.

Omari Newton.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Redbone Coonhound from October 6 to 30 as part of a Rolling World Premiere with Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre and Montreal’s Imago Theatre.

Hard-hitting comedy meets searing social commentary in this Arts Club Silver Commission by Amy Lee Lavoie and Omari Newton.

When Mike (Jesse Lipscombe) and Marissa (Emma Slipp), an interracial couple living in Vancouver, meet a dog with an unfortunate breed name, it unleashes a cascading debate between them and with their friends about race and their relationships. Using popular culture as touchstones, Redbone Coonhound navigates topics of oppression through a series of fever dreams satirizing modern perspectives on race, privilege, gender, and power in a visceral, tactile, and theatrical manner.

Originally adapted into an audio play for the 2021–2022 Listen to This series, Redbone Coonhound will, after its initial premiere at the Arts Club, have a second premiere in Toronto and Montreal shared by Tarragon Theatre and Imago Theatre. The arrangement will allow the playwrights’ work to deepen over time, and these Vancouver-based writers will have their work disseminated across Canada.

Arts Club’s Artistic Director Ashlie Corcoran co-directs Redbone Coonhound.

Redbone Coonhound is at the Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre (162 West 1st Avenue). Tickets from $25.

More info is at artsclub.com.

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