Please Return to Empire Video
A coming-of-age comedy in a video store.
- Played
- March 25 – April 13, 2025
- Opening Night
- March 27, 2025
- Season
- 2024–25
- Production Website
- www.lunchboxtheatre.com
2003. VHS is out and DVDs are in, and thousands of tapes have been unloaded on a small franchise location of Empire Video in southern Alberta. Friends Cass and Owen, and their surly coworker Thomas, have to survive a shift of endless sorting, stickering and rewinding in time to get to an advanced screening of The Matrix Reloaded. In the midst of movie references and workplace shenanigans, the world of the video store begins to unspool around them, testing their friendship as never before.
Content advisory: Content note: grief and loss.
Cast
- Cass Heidi Damayo
- Owen John Tasker
- Thomas Greg Wilson
Creative Team
- Sound Designer Anton deGroot
- Lighting Designer Lisa Floyd
- Set Designer Hanne Loosen
- Stage Manager Michael Luong
- Playwright James Odin Wade
- Apprentice Stage Manager Nicole Oscar
- Director Bronwyn Steinberg
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