The King Stag

Adapting freely from Carlo Gozzi’s Commedia del’arte classic, The King Stag, director Joey Tremblay and the Theatre Department at the University of Regina will present a spectacular, clown-filled version of the play filled with the all the pageantry and comic gags (lazzi) of the original – with some impish irreverence and mischievous rebellion thrown in. This update of the 18th-century fairy tale should appeal to the fanciful at heart as well as the young in age. The show’s design takes its inspiration from steam punk – a subgenre of science fiction, fantasy literature and art that features steam-powered machinery in a setting inspired by industrialized Western civilization during the 19th century. We are using all the tricks that our fabulous proscenium stage offers – the traps and the ropes!

More information at: http://www.uregina.ca/events/the-king-stag