Michael Mysterious
5 actors | 120 minutes
Michael joins a new family. It builds and burns around him. Sometimes he wonders if he is invisible.
When Michael’s grandmother dies, he is taken in by the mother of his estranged childhood best friend and invited to live at her new boyfriend’s suburban home. Arlene wants a family. July wants to leave. Jeremy wants to fit in. Paul wants to be young again. Everyone wants Michael to be something; Michael needs a place to be.
“An impressively subtle look at the continuity between people looking forward and people looking back — people poised on the brink of tragedy, where possibility lives and it’s better to hold hands and not look down. It’s an exciting place to be.”
-Liz Nicholls, 12th Night
Tom Tunski & Christina Nguyen with Pyretic Productions (2021) • Production Design by Stephanie Bahniuk • Direction by Patrick Lundeen• Photo by BB Collective Photography
Christina Nguyen & Gavin Dyer with Pyretic Productions (2021) • Production Design by Stephanie Bahniuk • Direction by Patrick Lundeen• Photo by BB Collective Photography
2017 - Workshop at Tarragon Theatre, Directed by David Jansen
2021 - World premiere by Pyretic Productions, Directed by Patrick Lundeen
Michael Mysterious was developed with the support of Playwrights Workshop Montreal, La Muse Writers Retreat, Theatre Calgary’s TC Out Loud, and the Tarragon Theatre. Dramaturgy by Jonathan Garfinkel, Andrea Romaldi, and Thomas Barnett.
Tom Tunski & Gavin Dyer with Pyretic Productions (2021) • Production Design by Stephanie Bahniuk • Direction by Patrick Lundeen• Photo by BB Collective Photography
Gavin Dyer, Jesse Gervais, Amber Borotsik, & Christina Nguyen with Pyretic Productions (2021) • Production Design by Stephanie Bahniuk • Direction by Patrick Lundeen• Photo by BB Collective Photography
Jesse Gervais, Tom Tunski, Christina Nguyen, Gavin Dyer, & Amber Borotsik with Pyretic Productions (2021) • Production Design by Stephanie Bahniuk • Direction by Patrick Lundeen• Photo by BB Collective Photography
Gavin Dyer, Christina Nguyen, & Tom Tunski with Pyretic Productions (2021) • Production Design by Stephanie Bahniuk • Direction by Patrick Lundeen• Photo by BB Collective Photography
Gavin Dyer with Pyretic Productions (2021) • Production Design by Stephanie Bahniuk • Direction by Patrick Lundeen• Photo by BB Collective Photography
Gavin Dyer & Jesse Gervais with Pyretic Productions (2021) • Production Design by Stephanie Bahniuk • Direction by Patrick Lundeen• Photo by BB Collective Photography