Parry Riposte Productions presents the World Stage Premiere of:
Dressed as People – a Triptych of Uncanny Abduction
Written by A.M. Dellamonica, Amal El-Mohtar, & Kelly Robson
Directed by Mary Ellis & Performed by Margo MacDonald
January 2023; TORONTO - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Winner of the 2021 Ottawa Fringe Online Audience Choice & Outstanding Solo Performance awards, Dressed as People – a Triptych of Uncanny Abduction finds a school haunted by troubled children; an encounter with the unknown on open waters; the mysterious disappearance of a friend in the woods. Three different characters, time periods, spine-tingling tales of paranormal abduction and the intrusion of the uncanny into the lives of those who are taken, those who do the taking, and those who are left behind.
Multi award-winning theatre creators and horror and speculative fiction writers team up for this chilling new show from the producers of the smash hit, The Elephant Girls. These internationally renowned, queer, Canadian, fiction writers now tackle writing for the theatre. The three monologues that make up Dressed as People are:
Kelly Robson, “Skinless”
In 1989, while teaching Canadian Literature at a university in Edmonton, a nun reveals her past as a young instructor at a haunted school full of troubled children in 1950s Ireland.
Amal El-Mohtar, “The Shape of My Teeth”
In 1827, a woman reflects on her best friend's mysterious disappearance in Mortimer Forest on the Welsh border. She refuses to be left behind.
A.M. Dellamonica, “Repositioning”
In 2021, a seasoned entertainer on the lesbian cruise circuit grapples with memories of an encounter with the unknown in 2018, on a Pacific Ocean repositioning cruise headed to Vancouver, B.C. from Sydney, Australia.
Dressed as People – a Triptych of Uncanny Abduction
by Parry Riposte Productions
March 7th - 18th, 2023
at Red Sandcastle Theatre ✦  922 Queen Street East
$20 Tuesdays / $30 Advance / $40 Door
Pay-What-You-Can Matinees
www.redsandcastletheatre.com/tickets
Masks Mandatory ▫️ HEPA Filtered Theatre
7:00PM Doors/7:30 Showtime
3:00PM Doors/3:30 Showtime
75 minutes - no intermission