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Waveforms · Mar 13, 2025 · 17 min

un/REAL by Sarah Shepherd - Waveforms EP 4

This week, Natasha Nadir chats with Vancouver-based playwright Sarah Shepherd to talk about their play, un/REAL. un/REAL by Sarah Shepherd is a horror/science fiction play where Cesare, a person with a degenerative muscular disorder tries a new and experimental medical treatment. This involves being put into a medically induced coma and entering a Virtual Reality that attempts to replicate a "perfect life”. Content Forecast: Medically assisted death/suicide, hospitalization. Waveforms was produced by Realwheels Theatre with the co-operation of UBCP/ACTRA. Cast: JULIA ABREU as MAREN NYX DEBOGORSKI as CESARE KAITLYN YOTT as STAGE DIRECTIONS Host: Natasha Nadir Playwright: Sarah Shepherd 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.

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This week, Natasha Nadir chats with Vancouver-based playwright Sarah Shepherd to talk about their play, un/REAL.

un/REAL by Sarah Shepherd is a horror/science fiction play where Cesare, a person with a degenerative muscular disorder tries a new and experimental medical treatment. This involves being put into a medically induced coma and entering a Virtual Reality that attempts to replicate a "perfect life”.

Content Forecast: Medically assisted death/suicide, hospitalization.

Waveforms was produced by Realwheels Theatre with the co-operation of UBCP/ACTRA.

Cast:

JULIA ABREU as MAREN

NYX DEBOGORSKI as CESARE

KAITLYN YOTT as STAGE DIRECTIONS

Host: Natasha Nadir

Playwright: Sarah Shepherd

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.