YOU PAID FOR IT; THEY'LL PAY FOR IT
SHOW DETAILS
Location: The Chanterelle
Date: March 22, 2024
Tickets: $10
Time: 7:30pm start time
Doors open 7pm
Cash Bar
Photo Credit: Tyler Skalzelski
Graphic Design: Miranda Van Den Berg
ABOUT THE SHOW
In 1981, in the concession lobby of the Highway 69 Drive-in just outside of Sudbury, a group of prominent Canadian horror directors gather to create a writing collective to workshop each of their next films.
Horror has become a dirty word after an angry taxpayer killed off one of their colleagues five years earlier and was never caught. As a snowstorm rages outside and people start to go missing, it begins to become chillingly clear that the killer is among them.
Inspired by the ’70s and ’80s horror film slashers, this alternative history of Canadian cinema explores the critically derided tax-shelter era film boom to shine a light on how this marginalized and misunderstood period of Canadian filmmaking has been sadly ignored.
ABOUT THE CREATOR
ANDREW PAULSEN
Playwright / Lawrence Zazelenchuk
Andrew Paulsen lives in Thunder Bay, working in film, TV, radio, and theatre, as a director, producer, writer, and actor.
He is an internationally produced PGC playwright and runs his own theatre group, New Noise Productions, producing alternative and edgy offerings in Thunder Bay.
Originally from Hurkett, Ontario, he is a graduate of the Confederation College Film Program and received an HBA in Psychology and a MA in English from Lakehead University.
He has acted in local productions like Superior Theatre Festival’s Between Two Breaths, directed by the World Wide Lab, and Magnus Theatre’s Miracle On 34th Street. He has also worked for companies like Eleanor Drury Children's Theatre and acted for companies like Frankly Scarlet, 10x10, and Cambrian Players. He is a director-at-large for local not-for-profits Cambrian Players and the North Of Superior Film Association.
His plays CerebrospinaliS, Falling Backwards, and A Man Dies By The Gun were produced by the local 10x10 Play Festivals. His play The Last House was produced in the 2019 New Market National 10 Minute Play Festival, and his play Rōnin was produced in Helisinki in a British-Finish coproduction at the 3rd Annual Höyhentämö Short-n-Snappy Showcase. He was a member of the Inaugural Playwrights' Unit at Magnus Theatre and the Inaugural Northern Creators Unit with Pat The Dog Theatre Creation. His full-length play *You Paid For It; They’ll Pay For It* was given a workshop and reading last year at the Sudbury Theatre Centre.
His full-length plays are Cerebrospinalis, Come and Find Me, Moosefucker, Ontario, Dead Boy Party, Cosmonaut, You Paid For It; They’ll Pay For It, Heckler, and the soon-to-be-finished Chain-Gang.
He likes Canuxploitation and Hammer films, point-and-click adventure games, cigars, Ameritrash board games, cats, dogs, giraffes, wordless comics, betting on horses, and solving Rubix’s Cubes.
ADDITIONAL CAST
* "The participation of this Artist is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors' Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance Opera Theatre Policy (DOT)."
GALLERY
Photos: Frank Baratta
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