This weekend at Shafer visit this Corner of the World

"Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass."
- Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces

A Corner of the World, a SALT production directed by Rachel Blackburn and assistant directed by Sydney Ballesteros, is a funny, imaginative, poignant, cross-cultural story which involves a cast of characters ranging from Christopher Walken to the Oldest Living Bird in Indonesia. They are all brought together, knowingly and unknowingly, following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. A comedy about connecting and also, not: featuring the incredible performances of -


Gina Badillo
Max Ehrlich
Andrea Hurt
Hayden Ireland
Mauricio Marces
Caty Nicholson
Joshua Norton
Mahlon Raoufi
Connor Scully
James Spence
Juliette Tostain
Alan Vollmer
Danielle Williams

And the incredible designs of:

Benjamin Burke
Cody Richardson
Ashley Swiger
Nathan Wunderlich

This is a FREE event!

Performances will take place at the Newdick Theatre in Shafer Street Playhouse on the VCU Monroe Park Campus, Richmond, VA:

Friday, April 27th at 8:00pm
Saturday, April 28th at 8:00pm
Sunday, April 29th at 3:00pm

A Corner of the World is written by Bridget Carpenter, Julia Cho, Jordan Harrison, Itamar Moses, and Chay Yew. It was originally commissioned and produced in 2005 by Emigrant Theater, Minneapolis.