• The Play

    Billy Stutter is your typical mute Irish boxer with a secret, living across the graveyard from the unrequited love of his life.  But when a handsome stranger blows into town to woo the fair Taliesin, will Billy finally have the courage to "speak up"...or are things about to get that much more Irish?

    Written by Dan Hershfield
    Directed by Bruce Hunter
    Starring Logan Brown, Dana Fradkin, Dave Pearce, and Brad Sayeau
    Stage Managed by Jennine Profeta

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  • Notable Quotables!

    "Full of dramatic twists and silly turns, the play takes a tragic, somewhat predictable plot and injects it with bizarre, surprising comic revelations. By the play's final act, you've settled into its strange rhythms, but it still manages to unsettle your expectations with hilarious confrontations. If you like your comedy black, you'll love Billy Stutter. A-"
    --Jonathan Ball, Uptown Magazine


    "Throw in a lot of dark comedy, several mysterious deaths and a lot of plot twists and you get a really entertaining play. I really liked how this play effortlessly switches between comedy and tragedy...I highly recommend that you check out this show."
    --Justin Olynyk, UMFM


    "Dana Fradkin is incredible in her performance of Taliesin."
    --Kyle Rudge, Ignite107


    "The playwright takes all the stereotypes of Irish drama and turns them into an Irish folktale filtered through a Jewish folktale as told by a contemporary Cyrano de Bergerac and even Oscar Wilde, so this guy really knows his theatre. A very refined sense of humour...well acted and directed...it works."
    --Alvina Ruprecht, Ottawa Morning, CBC Radio


    "Definitely one of the best plays to come out of the Bad Dog Short Play Festival – and on it’s way to becoming a great Canadian Play… set in Ireland… about boxing… ever! Break a cross-Canada leg, team!"
    -- Marcel St. Pierre, former Artistic Director, Bad Dog Theatre

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    Friday, July 23rd, 11:30 p.m. and Saturday, July 24th, 12:00 p.m. (noon) @ MTC Mainstage, Winnipeg

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