Sucker for Punishment Arts Group— October 2022

Written by Jake Rose

Directed by Jake Rose and Conrad Belau

Scenic Design and Projections by Jake Rose

Stage Managed by Megan Couch

Lights by Lauren Acheson

Sound by Corey Ariss

Cast: Conrad Belau, Deedra Ladouceur, Madeline Hunter Smith.

In 2022 Jake Rose wrote, produced, designed, and co-directed The Nordegg Incident alongside Madeline Hunter Smith (Producer/Actor) and Conrad Belau (Co-Director/Actor) as Sucker For Punishment’s first production. The Nordegg Incident is an inter-textual theatre piece about three Albertans who travel to the real town of Nordegg to attempt a ritual in the hopes to achieve fulfillment. They soon realize that their witchy ritual has consumed them too. Rose’s existential, true-but-not-real-crime piece that never actually happened, utilized projected footnotes, real world details, and featured actors breaking character to insinuate the cast losing their sanity— by standards for a production under a thousand dollar budget, the play was a hit.