Juliet: A Revenge Comedy

Stuck in an endless loop of turning a dagger on herself, Juliet breaks out of her tragedy in search of a reason for her tragic demise. On the way, Juliet recruits a team of Shakespeare’s most famous female characters to find out why they’ve been forced to die. Can they alter their fate or are they doomed to play out the same tragic tales for the rest of eternity?

“Award-winning evisceration of Shakespeare’s Verona Tragedy” -Orlando Weekly

“…hilarious simply because it’s so audacious and unexpected.” -Colin Thomas

“…an example of the new heights that can be achieved when we rethink tropes as old as time.” -Winnipeg Free Press ★★★★★

“…a delightful tale that’s equal parts feminist critique, Renaissance romp and bravura acting display…not to be missed.” -NOW Toronto NNNN (out of 4)

Credits

Written by – Pippa Mackie and Ryan Gladstone

Original Score by – Drew Jurecka

Directed by – Ryan Gladstone

Lightning Design by – Jon Paterson

Costume Design by – Nita Bowerman

Performed by:

Lili Beaudoin as Juliet

Ryan Gladstone as Shakespeare

Carly Pokoradi as Everyone Else

Accessibility

Content warnings: Adult language, sexual content, depictions or mentions of cartoonish violence, discussion of suicide.

Sensory warnings: Audience interaction/participation.

About the Artist

Monster Theatre

Monster Theatre was founded in 2000. Our first play was Fairy Tale: A Choose Your Own Adventure Play, an improvised street theatre show that toured the Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Victoria Fringe Festivals. Our second play The Canada Show: The Complete History of Canada in One toured across the country numerous times winning countless awards. We have developed over 40 original productions for adult and young audiences always with our signature irreverent twist on history and mythology. Plays for young audiences include The Big Rock Show: The Complete History of the World, Mini Masterpieces, The Little Prince, Shakespeare’s Dream, We Now Know: The Complete History of Science and Crisis on Planet Z! Plays for adults include Juliet: A Revenge Comedy, War and Peace, Who Killed Gertrude Crump?, Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, No Tweed Too Tight, Assassinating Thomson, Hockey Night at the Puck and Pickle, The Seven Lives of Louis Riel, The Shakespeare Show, The Macbeth Show and many, many more. Monster Theatre has become one of Canada’s premiere independent touring theatre companies.

Lili Beaudoin – Performer (Juliet) Based out of Vancouver, Lili is an actor, Improvisor and voice artist. Some of her notable theatre credits include Marie in The Nutcracker at Caravan Farm Theatre, Claudia in I, Claudia at The Arts Club, Mimi/scenographer in Blind Date, Brigid Blake in The Humans at Theatre Calgary, Gracie in Gracie at ATP & Belfry and Miranda in The Tempest at Bard on the Beach. Elsewhere Lili’s voice can be heard in several animated shows such as Beat Bugs, Littlest Pet Shop, Rainbow Ruby, Max Steel and My Little Pony. If you’d like to see her do some improv you can catch Lili most weekends at Vancouver’s Tightrope Impro Theatre strutting her stuff on stage and pretending she knows what she’s talking about. Lili is the honoured recipient of the Anthony Holland Scholarship

for Outstanding Ability and Dedication as well as a Betty Mitchell award for Outstanding Performance by a lead Actress in a Drama.

Carly Pokoradi – Performer (Everyone else) Carly is a collaborative creator, multidisciplinary artist, clown, and scrap collector who trusts her goosebumps. As a theatre-maker, Carly has worked in various capacities with Theatre Replacement, Caravan Farm Theatre, The Chop, and Hardline Productions and has toured the country with sold-out runs on the Canadian Fringe Circuit. Carly is an artistic associate with Monster Theatre, an improviser with Blind Tiger Comedy, a Jessie Richardson Award nominee, and a graduate of Studio 58. As artist-in-residence with the incredible @hammockresidency, she recently showed her textile art at the James Black Gallery in so-called Vancouver. Currently, she is studying to become an ASL-English interpreter and relishing every minute. In her spare time, she sews messily, sleeps deeply, and laughs loudly.

Ryan Gladstone – Playwright/Director/Performer (Shakespeare)

Ryan currently lives and works in Vancouver as an actor, producer, director, playwright and improvisor. Ryan holds an MFA in Directing and a BFA in Acting, he also spent ten years studying Improvisation Loose Moose Theatre under Keith Johnstone. Ryan is the founder and Artistic Director of Monster Theatre (www.monstertheatre.com) where he has co-created over 25 original plays. Selected writing/directing credits include: Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Who Killed Gertrude Crump?, The Shakespeare Show, and The Canada Show (Monster Theatre). Selected directing credits include: Hell of a Girl (revolver Festival), Hunter Gatherers (Staircase Theatre), Ubu Roi (UBC). Ryan has six one-person plays including War and Peace, No Tweed Too Tight, Every Story Ever Told, The Seven Lives of Louis Riel, Napoleon’s Secret Diary and Confessions of a Class Clown.

Pippa Mackie – Playwright

Pippa Mackie is an award-winning actor, playwright, and producer. Her work has been performed on stages and at festivals across North America. Most notable credits include The Progressive Polygamists co-written/performed with Emmelia Gordon, which toured across Canada for many years including the Just For Laughs Festival. Her one-act play Starman, which was originally commissioned and produced as part of Upintheair Theatre’s The Array, was adapted into an audio drama as part of Sound the Alarm Theatre’s podcast series in 2021 and received 3 Berlin Film Haus nominations including Best Scriptwriting and Best Podcast. She is also the co-writer of a mockumentary comedy podcast titled Philippa Po: Changing Minds with Ryan Gladstone produced by Sound the Alarm Theatre. Her most recent play Hurricane Mona was co-produced by Touchstone Theatre and Ruby Slippers Theatre and received its World Premiere production in November 2023. Hurricane Mona was created as part of the Arts Club Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights Unit, was awarded Touchstone Theatre’s David King Prize for Comedy in 2022 and Pippa was a participant of the 2023 Banff Playwrights Unit. Pippa is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

Drew Jurecka – Original Score

Drew Jurecka is a Toronto-based violinist/vocalist who is comfortable in many genres. Trained classically at the Cleveland Institute of Music, during his final year Drew played a solo with the great Dave Brubeck and his quartet at Severance Hall. While at the Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles, a summer program for jazz and aspiring studio musicians, Drew had the opportunity to play at the Hollywood Bowl with Diana Krall, Dianne Reeves, and Shirley Horn. Drew has played, written or arranged on more than 150 records, including several JUNO-winning and Grammy-nominated albums. He can be heard on numerous film and television soundtracks. Drew has toured internationally as a sideman and with his own projects. He spent five years on the road with Jeff Healey and now plays as part of Jill Barber’s regular band.

He is a faculty member at Humber College where he has helped to develop a unique jazz strings program that includes technique classes, ensembles and private lessons.

Jon Paterson – Lighting Designer/Stage Manager

Jon has been an active member of the Canadian theatre community for the past 25 years and has performed in numerous theatres and festivals including the Centaur Theatre and Just For Laughs Comedy Festival (Montreal), Canoe Theatre Festival, Workshop West and Mayfield Theatre (Edmonton), Rogue Festival (California), Living Arts Centre (Mississauga), Vertigo Mystery Theatre (Calgary), the Winnipeg Improv Festival and the Vancouver Comedy Festival.

Jon received his training at MacEwan University, where he studied both theatre arts and production. He has also trained with master clown Mike Kennard (Mump & Smoot) and has honed his improv skills at Second City Toronto.

Nita Bowerman – Costume Designer

Nita Bowerman is a multidisciplinary performance-based artist, mixing the mediums of dance, acting, media art and costume design. Her self-created real time performances are often hybrid works mixing live action with digital content. Her creation and collaboration credits include performing in live and live digital spaces, generating visual content for short art videos and live plays, and making wearable art works and costumes. She has worked with various local theatre companies in a variety of capacities and has performed and screened diy digital video works locally and internationally. Art is the medium through which Nita processes existing. She is an experimenter of form and designer of content, creating works for stage and screen. Thanks Monster Theatre for inviting me to have fun and play! Nita is a graduate of SFU School for Contemporary Arts.

• Event Types - Dramedy
• $0.00
• 25-September 26, 2025
• 75 minutes
• Metro Studio
• Metro Studio
• PG 14+
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  Content warnings: Adult language, sexual content, depictions or mentions of cartoonish violence, discussion of suicide. Sensory warnings: Audience interaction/participation.