BLACK WOOL JACKET

Written and Performed By: Nat Vickers
At the Tampa Fringe Festival May 2nd - 11th, 2019

Black Wool Jacket was born in the bowels of a seedy nightclub, and grew into a one-woman storytelling show that pits curious academic against a hoard of lost coat check claim tickets. When bookish PhD student Nat finds herself in desperate need of a side job, she takes on a gig checking jackets deep in the heart of Toronto’s late-night entertainment district - a far cry from her usual Friday nights at a library desk. But behind the desk of a very different kind, Nat has front-row seats to the strangest show in town: the nightclub. Armed with an ear for eavesdropping, Nat’s nights at coat check write themselves into battles of Shakespearian proportions: mistaken identities, heartfelt soliloquies, and a tempest of passions unleashed upon the coat check counter, all recorded (mostly) verbatim. From the unbelievable to the inconceivable, the hilarious to the unsavoury, Black Wool Jacket retraces the stories that people share, when they think no one is listening or likely to remember in the morning.

(Vue Weekly)    (Global News Edmonton)

 

“Will have you laughing non-stop” (Kings River Life)

“One of the juiciest, most intriguing monologues I have ever encountered” (The Road to 1,000)

Black Wool Jacket is written and produced by Nat Vickers. She is all the way from Toronto, Canada, where she spent the last eight years working on (and finally getting) a PhD in theatre. She is a writer, theatre-maker, theatre tech, and circus stage manager. Her plays have been workshopped and presented at Alumnae Theatre, Ruby Slippers Advance Theatre Series, Summerworks Festival, Storefront Theatre, New Ideas Festival, Rhubarb Festival, and Fringe Festivals across Canada. She wrote the very first draft of this show while sitting behind a coat check counter at a nightclub in Toronto.

Showtimes:
Friday, May 3 at 8:30 PM
Saturday, May 4 at 1:30 PM
Sunday, May 5 at 4:15 PM
Thursday, May 9 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, May 11 at 8:45 PM

Tickets: Please check "Purchase" link below for ticket pricing
Purchase Tickets here: https://tampafringe.ticketleap.com/black-wool-jacket/
(Additional online ticketing fees may apply)

Venue is located at: Silver Meteor Gallery, 2213 E 6th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605 (Directions & Map)