A QUIET SIP OF COFFEE or, this is not the show we’ve written

In the summer of 2004, Anthony Johnston and Nathan Schwartz—self-proclaimed gay/straight best friends duo—wrote a prank letter to a fundamentalist “ex-gay” organization asking for funds to produce Never Cry Wolfman; a play with mask and song in which the monster within is summarily defeated. To their surprise, the letter was answered, and they were invited to workshop the new play at the organization’s retreat in rural British Columbia, under the condition that they also spend two weeks participating in gay conversion therapy.

Years later, still struggling to come to terms with the events of that summer and finding it impossible to agree on what exactly transpired, the friends reunite to perform their conflicting accounts as a piece of theater. The result is A Quiet Sip of Coffee—part docu-theater, part atonement ritual, part melodrama, exorcism, and half-mask musical.

created and performed by Anthony Johnston & Nathan Schwartz directed by Annie Tippe , developped with Anita Rochon

presented at Dixon Place, NYC / Centaur Theatre’s Wildside Fest, Montreal / GCTC’s Undercurrents Fest (Ottawa)

“Best of Fest” —My Entertainment World, Toronto (SummerWorks)

“A perfect little gem of a show” —Visitorium, Ottawa

“uniquely, wonderfully live” —nytheatre.com