Benefit for Champlain Elementary School Breakfast Program

News Release: Paul Rapsey, a resident of Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, will be performing his latest play, “Desperately Seeking Samuel” as a Benefit for the Champlain Elementary School Breakfast and Lunch Program.

The play is a 90 minute dramatic monologue. Rapsey plays an eighty year old man who, having lost the memory of his life while hospitalized, slowly pieces it together while trapped in a small closet. In this production, he will also play another character who speaks the closing Epilogue.

The play might be considered an allegory about the loss and recovery of self-esteem and self-awareness. It is not a light comedy or bedroom farce. It has been described as a play “struggling in darkness and bathing in the light of discovery”.

Rapsey, who was professionally trained as an actor, has been performing monologues since his retirement in 2015 as a legal aid lawyer. He says he has undertaken this form of theatre because a monologue is something that can travel well and inexpensively. He has no budget. Moreover, it does not rely on other people’s busy schedules. His performances have raised money for various arts organizations, charities and non-profit organizations in both Ontario and Nova Scotia.

There will be one local performance at the Granville Ferry Community Hall, 5352 Granville Road, at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 22. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15.00 and will be available at Bainton’s (Mad Hatter Bookstore), 213 St. George Street in Annapolis Royal from September 7.

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