Raise the Hammer
Scruffy Productions, Toronto, Ontario
Playwright/Author/Director: Bruce Gooch
Featuring (cast list): Michael Adam Hogan, Eric Bleyendaal, Andrei Preda
Show Type: Sci Fi Dystopian Dramedy
Audience: Mature Audience (14 and over)
Warnings: Coarse language, violence, sexually explicit.
Two soldiers; an elite Sock Troop and a cannon fodder Disposable end up in a building where their telecommunication doesn't work and they have to 'speak and go vocal the old fashioned way' to communicate. They are confronted by Pale Person, the single strange occupant of the dead- zone building who has the ability to disappear. Pale Person has an agenda; one of the soldiers will live and one will die.
A crazed killer with a dark past, a lost soul with no direction, and a hopeful hermit jaded by the world must work together to unlock mankind's only hope in an oppressive world. This intense psychological thriller follows two 'Trashmen' and a mysterious 'Pale Person' who, although living under the oppressive CORP regime, find sanctuary in a theatre and re-discover language, the power of words, friendship, and their purpose.
Themes / Genre: Sci Fi comedy drama graphic novel come to life.
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