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GOODNIGHT DISGRACE
Written by Michael Mercer
October 15 - November 7, 2004
Postscript Productions, Stratford, Ontario
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Cast and Crew
| From his wheelchair in a nursing home, the aging Conrad Aiken, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, recalls his long, stormy friendship with Malcolm Lowry. When Aiken was 40, Lowry’s father paid him to tutor young Malcolm in writing skills. The protégé becomes Aiken’s friend, and gradually a real literary contender. This play reveals the shifts in the two men’s relationship as they struggle with alcoholism, women, creative energy, and each other; and as the student metamorphoses into a rival. We remember Lowry for his short life and modern masterpiece, Under the Volcano, which was made into a film. In 1986 Michael Mercer won the prestigious Chalmers Award for writing for this play. | |
| Nigel Bennett - Conrad Aiken | Director - Dean Gabourie |
| Brendan Murray - Malcolm Lowry | Music - Marc Desormeaux |
| Marion Adler - Clarissa Lorenz | Lighting Design - Louise Guinand |
| Jody Stevens - Jan Gabriel | Set Design - John Pennoyer |
| Peggy Coffey - The Nurse | |
| Leon Pownall - Arthur O. Lowry | |
| Richard McMillan - Ed Bura | |
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