Who will survive?
Three strangers are held captive in a basement forced to play a role in The Father's twisted game. Tensions rise when they learn one of them will be sacrificed for a new victim to take their place. The strangers must decide whether to follow the rules, play their own game, or leave things to chance. Only two can survive. Who will be left behind in The Retelling?
By Alayna Jacquline with music by Simon Sperl
Three strangers are held captive in a basement forced to play a role in The Father's twisted game. Tensions rise when they learn one of them will be sacrificed for a new victim to take their place. The strangers must decide whether to follow the rules, play their own game, or leave things to chance. Only two can survive. Who will be left behind in The Retelling?
By Alayna Jacquline with music by Simon Sperl
Virtual | Presented as part of the Twin Cities Horror Festival's Season 9
Performances:
Friday, October 30, 6:00pm
Saturday, October 31, 6:00pm
Performances:
Friday, October 30, 6:00pm
Saturday, October 31, 6:00pm
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CAST
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Laurel Armstrong (Leah)
Laurel currently resides in the Twin Cities where her primary focus as an actor/singer is on new work. Laurel’s live performance work has taken her all the way from Osaka, Japan, to her kitchen table. She has also done a bit of producing, writing, and directing in the realms of sketch comedy and innovative multidisciplinary work. Through this she discovered her love of organizing creativity, nurturing others’ talents, and having people do what she says. Laurel began doing voice-over almost 15 years ago reading on-line instruction manuals for a small company in Provo, UT. Since then, her clients have ranged from international corporations like Target, Nestle, Verizon, and 3M, to educational companies and local non-profits like the Jeffers Foundation. |
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Kiko Laureano (Rachel)
Kiko Laureano is a local actress based in St. Paul, MN. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Indiana University. Recent credits include: Chameleon Theatre Circle: Vanishing Point (Amelia Earhart). Guthrie Theatre: A Christmas Carol (Londoner/Caroling ensemble), Duluth Playhouse: Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Brenda’s songs), Mixed Blood Theatre: Autonomy (Gabby). Lyric Arts of Anoka: Evita (Eva Perón). Minnetonka Theatre: Sister Act (Deloris van Cartier) and Joseph...Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator). Old Log Theatre: Beehive (Tina Turner/Supremes Track). |
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Cam Pederson (Jacob)
Cam Pederson is a Twin Cities based Actor, Designer, Drag Queen. He holds a BFA in musical theatre from Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he had the opportunity to work on his dream show as the titular role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He made his Twin Cities debut at Lyric Arts Theatre in the regional premiere of Bright Star as "Billy Cane." Then, almost, "Nick Cricker"/"Durdles" in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which due to COVID-19 was canceled the day of opening night. Other credits include Harry Houdini (Ragtime), Seymour Krelborn (Little Shop of Horrors), Christopher Wren (The Mousetrap), and Clopin (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). CamPederson.com | @TheOfficialCam1 | @TheLunaMuse |
CREATIVE TEAM
Lucas Skjaret (Director)
Lucas is a theatre director, costume designer, and teaching artist in the Twin Cities. As the Artistic Director of Market Garden Theatre, he has directed My Barking Dog, Gray Duck, Three Days of Rain, On The Exhale (featuring Jane Froiland) at the Minnesota Fringe, the world premiere of Keith Hovis’ Public Exposure, and a staged reading of Ghosts & Zombies. With his colleagues, he also co-produced and directed readings of three new plays for MGT’s newest program, Fresh Roots Series. He most recently has directed both Mulan Jr. and High School Musical with Young Artists Initiative. He has also worked with The History Theatre, Little Life Boats, Park Square Theatre, Artistry, Yellow Tree, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, Freshwater Theatre, DalekoArts, Theatre in the Round, Minnesota Musical Theatre, The Public Theater of Minnesota, and Teater Neuf in Oslo, Norway. Lucas received his double B.A. in Theatre Arts and Scandinavian Studies from the University of North Dakota where he studied Norwegian culture and Ibsen in Oslo, Norway and did research at The Ibsen Centre. He is a proud associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of North America. www.lucasskjaret.com
Lucas is a theatre director, costume designer, and teaching artist in the Twin Cities. As the Artistic Director of Market Garden Theatre, he has directed My Barking Dog, Gray Duck, Three Days of Rain, On The Exhale (featuring Jane Froiland) at the Minnesota Fringe, the world premiere of Keith Hovis’ Public Exposure, and a staged reading of Ghosts & Zombies. With his colleagues, he also co-produced and directed readings of three new plays for MGT’s newest program, Fresh Roots Series. He most recently has directed both Mulan Jr. and High School Musical with Young Artists Initiative. He has also worked with The History Theatre, Little Life Boats, Park Square Theatre, Artistry, Yellow Tree, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, Freshwater Theatre, DalekoArts, Theatre in the Round, Minnesota Musical Theatre, The Public Theater of Minnesota, and Teater Neuf in Oslo, Norway. Lucas received his double B.A. in Theatre Arts and Scandinavian Studies from the University of North Dakota where he studied Norwegian culture and Ibsen in Oslo, Norway and did research at The Ibsen Centre. He is a proud associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of North America. www.lucasskjaret.com
Alayna Jacquline (Playwright)
Alayna Jacqueline is a Minneapolis-based playwright, born and raised in Buckeye Nation (Columbus, Ohio). In her absurd experimental writing, she loves finding new ways to bend, reshape, and deconstruct stories for the stage. Alayna’s plays have been read, performed, or developed at MadLab Theater (OH), Garden Theater (OH), Pythian Theater (OH), Haybarn Theater (VT), Playwrights’ Center (MN), Crane Theater (MN), and Renaissance Theaterworks (WI). She’s a new play instigator with the Twin Cities Playwright Cabal. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and her BA in theatre from Otterbein University.
Alayna Jacqueline is a Minneapolis-based playwright, born and raised in Buckeye Nation (Columbus, Ohio). In her absurd experimental writing, she loves finding new ways to bend, reshape, and deconstruct stories for the stage. Alayna’s plays have been read, performed, or developed at MadLab Theater (OH), Garden Theater (OH), Pythian Theater (OH), Haybarn Theater (VT), Playwrights’ Center (MN), Crane Theater (MN), and Renaissance Theaterworks (WI). She’s a new play instigator with the Twin Cities Playwright Cabal. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and her BA in theatre from Otterbein University.
Simon Sperl (Composer)
Much of Simon's music is meditative and poignant but, it can also be full of jubilation and energy; sometimes even teetering on cacophony. His music tends to focus on large themes such as religion’s role in poverty cessation, toxic masculinity, and being present to the miracle of existence. His writing partner is Louise Wonder Woman Sperl. She is the diluted calico. His wonderfully supportive and talented wife (a Speech Language Pathologist, singer, and cookie taste tester) picked Louise up from a friend’s farm in 2017. Louise and Simon write music as they peer out the window of their Saint Paul home; a home that Simon is slowly DIYing back from a sewage splattered foreclosure into to a cozy duplex that they currently share with Simon's brother and his fiancé.
Much of Simon's music is meditative and poignant but, it can also be full of jubilation and energy; sometimes even teetering on cacophony. His music tends to focus on large themes such as religion’s role in poverty cessation, toxic masculinity, and being present to the miracle of existence. His writing partner is Louise Wonder Woman Sperl. She is the diluted calico. His wonderfully supportive and talented wife (a Speech Language Pathologist, singer, and cookie taste tester) picked Louise up from a friend’s farm in 2017. Louise and Simon write music as they peer out the window of their Saint Paul home; a home that Simon is slowly DIYing back from a sewage splattered foreclosure into to a cozy duplex that they currently share with Simon's brother and his fiancé.
