O, Come All Ye Faithful

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Sunday, August 27th, 2017
Aug 25 at 9:15, 26 at 12:45; 27 at 6:30, 28 at 8:15, 29 at 9:00, & Sep 3 at 6:30

Multi-Generational Play Brings Weird Art, Cake to Victoria Fringe. O, Come All Ye Faithful is a play about family, faith and non-representational art—and features a varied team, from students to great-grandmothers to bakers.

The plot follows two bickering museum guards—one a foul-mouthed art fan, the other jaded fencing champ—who encounter an elderly Slovenian nihilist, played by Pippa Catling.

Catling is a community theatre veteran, as well as a mother of ten, grandmother of twenty-six, and great-grandmother of five. “I knew Mara would be hard to cast,” says playwright Nicholas Guerreiro, “especially since most actors I know are students from UVic or CCPA—but Pippa walked into the audition room and charmed the pants off us.” Another challenge was sourcing the cake called for in the script. Luckily, Bragi Theatre connected with Markus Spodzieja, the proprietor of new mobile bakery The Bikery. “Markus and I acted together at UVic” says Guerreiro. “It seemed like a great way to help him publicize his business.” O, Come All Ye Faithful is being produced by Bragi Theatre, a new company with one show under its belt: an adaptation of the Times Colonist So You Think You Can Write-winning story Rural Ravaillac in the local SKAMpede festival. “A one-man piece was a great place to start,” says Guerreiro, “but I wanted to work with artists like our director Elizabeth Martin or our production designer Delaney Tesch, and to involve as much of the community as possible.”

NEAT FACTS AND STORY HOOKS

• Although the main artist in the play is invented, the script mentions real works by Leonaert Bremer, Samuel Cooper, Leonardo DaVinci, Gustave Courbet, Ives Klein, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, Georgia O’Keefe, Alexander Calder, Lucio Fontana and Damien Hirst.

• Three of the O, Come All Ye Faithful creative team are also founding members of Victoria theatre start-up Vino Buono Productions—Nicholas Guerreiro, Victoria Simpson, and Delaney Tesch, UVic students all. Vino Buono also has a show in the Fringe—Daddy Issues.

• The cast of O, Come All Ye Faithful hail from all corners of the world, from the Dominican Republic to Bolivia to Scotland. WHO SHOULD SEE THIS SHOW?

• People who like to laugh.

• Artists and art lovers of all kinds

• Feminists

• Angry bitter people with a heart of soft nougat. TEAM Nicholas Guerreiro (Playwright), Elizabeth Martin (Director), Frankie Mulder (Stage Manager), Pippa Catling (Actor---Mara), Brett Hay (Actor---Rothko), Siena Shepard (Assistant Stage Manager), Victoria Simpson (Sound Design), Delaney Tesch (Production Design), Anna Watts (Actor—Christine), Matthew Wilkerson (Lighting Design)