Bonkers by Kate McArthur - Waveforms EP 5

This week, Natasha Nadir chats with Toronto-based playwright Kate McArthur to talk about their play, un/REAL. Bonkers is a clown comedy in which Clown who lives with depression and bipolar disorder faces an appeals panel after being denied disability support. Content Forecast: Discussions of suicide. Help is available. Call or Text the National Suicide Crisis Helpline (24hr/day): 9-8-8 Waveforms was produced by Realwheels Theatre with the co-operation of UBCP/ACTRA. Cast: KAITLYN YOTT as CLOWN ANDY KALIRAI as STAGE DIRECTIONS Host: Natasha Nadir Playwright: Kate McArthur Original Compositions and Sound Design: Finka Wood Production Management: Jordyn Wood Poster Graphic Design: Samantha Walters This podcast is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, and the Hamber Foundation. This production was recorded and broadcast from the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, at GGRP Sound Studios, as well as remotely on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.