Upintheair Theater

Guide to Mourning

(Genus Theatre Co-Production)

Year: 2011

Creative team

  • Directed by Dave Mott
  • Performed by Brenda Matthews, Daniel Martin, Frank Nikel, Frano Marsic, Kelly Sheridan & Paul Herbert
  • Co-produced by Genus Theatre and Upintheair
  • Designed by Cass Turner, Lauchlin Johnston, Flo Barrett & Katie Nieman
  • Stage Managed by Lorra Bedard, Jenn Hogg & Jessica Hahn

About

A father’s death reunites Deirdre with her three adult children. The eldest, Rex, is homeless. Lewis is the fussy middle child with an unhealthy attachment to expensive running shoes and their sister, Sandra, shuns emotion for designer dresses.  Together they attempt to plan their father’s final passage with what one would hope to be a sense of tender urgency and intimacy.  But in a play that is at once unsettling and hysterical, both bleak and hopeful, the family is so consumed with serving their own needs first that the actual funeral seems doomed from the start.