NEWS RELEASE
STRATFORD FESTIVAL
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Join us as Get That Hope has its world première at Stratford’s Studio Theatre on Sunday, July 21. André Sills makes his Stratford directorial debut as he brings Andrea Scott’s bittersweet drama to the stage. Get That Hope is an examination of personal and cultural diasporas that brims with laughter and tears.
Richard Whyte is determined to celebrate Jamaican Independence Day in style. The rice is soaking, the ginger beer is cooling and today his lottery ticket is finally going to hit it big! But Richard’s squabbling family have other ideas, and over the course of a single sweltering day in Toronto’s Little Jamaica, a lifetime of buried secrets and dreams will finally come to light.
“Life is hard wherever you go,” says Sills. “We fight for control and happiness in life but when do we ever get it … and if you do, for how long?”
The production features Celia Aloma as Rachel Whyte, Conrad Coates as Richard Whyte, Savion Roach as Simeon Whyte, Kim Roberts as Margaret Whyte and Jennifer Villaverde as Millicent Flores.
The creative team includes Set and Costume Designer Sarah Uwadiae, Lighting Designer Steve Lucas, Composer and Sound Designer Maddie Bautista, and Fight and Intimacy Director Anita Nittoly.
Scenic art inspired by and features the work of Muralist Adrian Hayles.
Get That Hope officially opens on August 10 and runs until September 28 at the Studio Theatre. Tickets are available at stratfordfestival.ca or by calling 1.800.567.1600.
The 2024 season also features Twelfth Night, Something Rotten!, Romeo and Juliet, London Assurance, La Cage aux Folles, Wendy and Peter Pan, Salesman in China, Cymbeline, Hedda Gabler, The Diviners and Edward Albee’s The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?. For more information, visit stratfordfestival.ca.
The 2024 season is generously supported by Ophelia Lazaridis.
Proud 2024 Season Partners: BMO Financial Group and RBC.
Production support is generously provided by Bryan Blenkin & Alan Rowe, Sylvia D. Chrominska.
Support for the development of Get That Hope is generously provided by The Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program.
CAST (in alphabetical order)
Celia Aloma Rachel Whyte
Conrad Coates Richard Whyte
Savion Roach Simeon Whyte
Kim Roberts Margaret Whyte
Jennifer Villaverde Millicent Flores
ARTISTIC CREDITS
Director André Sills
Set and Costume Designer Sarah Uwadiae
|Lighting Designer Steve Lucas
Composer and Sound Designer Maddie Bautista
Fight and Intimacy Director Anita Nittoly
Assistant Costume Designer Freddy Van Camp
Assistant Lighting Designer Emerson Kafarowski
Associate Sound Designer Adam Campbell
Stage Manager Alice Ferreyra Galliani
Assistant Stage Manager Scarlett Larry
Apprentice Stage Manager Danielle Walcott
Production Stage Manager Michael Hart
Production Assistant Kate Munro-Bergfeldt
Technical Director Tristan Goethel
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