Season

2021-22

Play

Altar

Run Dates

October 29, 2021–November 7, 2021

November 12, 2021–November 14, 2021, Rotary Arts Centre

Image features: Santiago Guzmán. Photo by Ashley Harding.

Poster by Perfect Day.

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Director

Cast

Crew

Description

Eugenio is a queer young immigrant living in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. Since moving from Mexico less than a year ago, he has experienced deep love and even deeper heartbreak when Benjamin, his new boyfriend, inexplicably “ghosts” him. Looking to the traditional Mexican holiday Día de Muertos and his father’s previous experience with paranormal activities, Eugenio decides to build an altar in the hopes that he will be able to summon his boyfriend’s ‘ghost’ and gain the closure he so desperately desires. Through the altar, Eugenio realizes that he has been something of a ghost himself to those left behind in Mexico. Will setting up an altar be enough to heal these relationships or is there more to find out?

Production type

  • RCA Production