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Based on the acclaimed and award-winning theatre production by Ghost River Theatre, STRUCK tells the story of a blissfully ignorant young man at the tipping point between adolescence and adulthood who is struck by lightning, shocking him into a free fall of survival, atonement, and search for self-knowledge.

Based on playwright Eric Rose’s true story of surviving a lightning strike while camping with friends on Sudbury’s Long Lake during the summer of 1999. The show explores the lightning strike as both physical and psychic mapping: fractured friendships, leaving home, losing loved ones - looking backward and forward in time from the point of view that can only be perceived in the electrified filament of one's mortality.

Written & Directed by Eric Rose

Edit, and Cinematography by Matt McKinney

Featuring Nathan Schmidt and Daniel J Perryman

ERIC ROSE

Eric is an award winning multi-disciplinary director and creator of live performance and the Artistic Director of Calgary’s acclaimed Ghost River Theatre.  His passion for the creative process has inspired the diversity of his multidisciplinary experience spanning: large scale contemporary and classical theatre, site- specific performance, devising theatre, new play development, physical performance and dance. Eric’s work embraces a hybrid of high tech visual spectacle with low-fi theatrical magic and is developed through a significant investment in imaginative research and development.

Matt mckinney

Matthew McKinney is a filmmaker, actor, and graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program. A native Calgarian, he splits his time working as the production manager at the Calgary International Film Festival, with his videography company, 2150 Creative, and entertaining his cat, Wylie. He was last on stage performing as Everett Klippert at the International Gay Theatre Festival in Ireland. Other theatre credits include: The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (Ghost River Theatre & ATP), Snow Angel (Quest Theatre), and Legislating Love (Sage Theatre). FILM/TV: Going to the Chapel (Director), A Teacher (Server), Miracle in East Texas (Mr. Wimple), Three Colours and a Canvas (Hurk). Thanks for coming and enjoy the show! www.matt-mckinney.com