First Production. University of Toronto Hart House Drama Festival 2023.
Written by Maggie Tavares. Directed by Maggie Tavares.
Winner of the Robert Gill Award for Best Direction, President’s Award for Best Production, I.A.T.S.E. Technical Achievement Award, and the Janet Bessey Excellence in Stage Management Award. Festival adjudicated by Kwaku Okyere.
SYNOPSIS:
God Save the Queen is an adaptation of Ryan Scott Oliver’s The Ballad of Sara Berry, which keeps a tight focus on Sara Berry, a tyrannically pissy prom queen wannabe, and her high school friend group. When Sara is met with a rival for the crown, Julie “pity-vote princess” Jenkins, who has recently lost her leg in a tragic car accident, she spirals out of control and into the mind of someone who will do absolutely anything for her time in the spotlight. God Save the Queen aims to provide a tactile, yet distorted affirmation of the lunacy that comes with being a teenage girl… with just a bit more blood than usual.
CAST:
Jasmine Jenkinson (SARA BERRY)
Shunsho Ando Heng (MATTHEW)
Hasti Asarizadeh (PATRICIA)
Jasmine Brough (ANNE)
Senzenina De Freitas (RAQUEL)
Jacob Klick-McMahon (SARA’S DAD)
Mehr Sokhanda (MARIANNA)
Bronwyn Davies (QUIARA)
Jaden Jackson (EUNICE/ASM)
Phynn Saunders (JAMES/POLICE)
CREW:
Mikaël Bennett – Stage Manager
Mila Frumovitz – Assistant Director
Julian Da Silva – Music Composition
Olivia Sgambelluri – Costume Design
Adapted from the song “The Ballad of Sara Berry” by Ryan Scott Oliver.
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