Koncan, an Anishinaabe-Slovene multi-hyphenate, has previously explored more terrestrial stories. “I figured if I was going to set something in space, I should do it now,” she recalls, sitting in a circle with the cast and crew. So space was on Koncan’s mile-a–minute mind: Dune was also in theatres, and the playwright, an avowed Timothée Chalamet stan, was into that, too. “It was embarrassing and weird, but I loved it. And then, on what felt like the same day, Pete Davidson and Jeff Bezos were going too, and everyone was fighting on Twitter just trying to show each other up,” Koncan says. “Do you remember when William Shatner went? And then, for some reason, Kanye West was going with Elon Musk. “And immediately after that, there was this weird period of time when everybody was trying to go to space. “Kim K and Kanye got divorced, and right after they separated, Kim rebounded with Pete Davidson, former SNL star and Staten Island king,” she says. That is, until Koncan - a Taurus, a Rhodes Scholar of memes, and one of the city’s most exciting playwrights - begins to describe the cosmic origins of the play, which unfolds like the Wizard of Oz if L. It may seem odd to be spending valuable rehearsal time ascertaining where the moon and the sun and the twinkling little stars were on the days the group’s members were born. Spoken like a true Scorpio.īrynn Godenir and Justin Otto play Lyra and Nikolaj in Prairie Theatre Exchange’s production of Space Girl which will be running from March 15 until April 2.
“We’re figuring out our star charts,” exclaimed director Krista Jackson. With bottles of Schweppes Ginger Ale nearby to soothe their parched vocal cords, the cast and crew of Frances Koncan’s new play at PTE, Space Girl, ran lines and discussed their character’s backstories a few weeks before the world premiere.īut first, something a tad more pressing.
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