THEATRE PREVIEW

OCTOBER 2025 | Volume 256

 

"Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved..."

18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam’s well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev and her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, but it’s her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her.

Kelly was everything Sam is not – impetuous and daring. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. When Kelly is killed in a car wreck, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning to be brave. Now, Sam has to make a decision: Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?

CREATIVE TEAM
Director - Thomas Schultes
Music Director - Taylor McKee
Asst. Music Director - Livia Cohen
Choreographer - Julia Kelleway
Stage Manager - Holly Theobald
Costume Designer - Jordan Chambers
Prop Masters - Stephanie Barclay, Julia Kelleway
Lighting Designer - Jules Sassi
Sound Designer - Victoria McNeil
Intimacy Director –Alin Quarin

CAST
Rachel Angco - Sam
Madison Raybould - Kelly
Jyla Robinson - Beverly
Toby Verchere - Adam
Alexis Hope - Sam Understudy
Ava McDonald - Kelly Understudy
Garrett Kidd - Adam Understudy

BAND
Taylor McKee - Conductor/Percussion
Hayley Farenholtz - Harp
Alice Yang - Harp
Dom Hallberg - Guitar
Livia Cohen - Keyboard

CONTENT WARNING This production contains explicit language, strobe lighting, sexual content, partial nudity, and depictions of grief.

Find out more about us and our show at www.sherwoodtheatre.ca. 

PLEASE NOTE: Our performance on Saturday, November 22 at 2:30PM will be a scheduled performance by our understudy cast.

 

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