Copracorn Presented By Post Productions May & June 2025
Generation Z faces challenges its parents and grandparents never had to face: joblessness, massive inflation, a grim apocalyptic future, the temptations of a virtual world, and an overwhelming sense of hopelessness and alienation.
So why not have some fun with it? Why not add some fantasy and dark whimsy to the situation our 20-somethings face? Why not throw a talking cockroach into the mix? Just ask yourself: “Did your life have any meaning before you had an audience?”
Post Productions is proud to present Copracorn by Kieran Potter —winner of the 2024 Windsor-Essex Playwriting Contest.
This original all-Canadian play is a dark comedy with elements of drama, fantasy, and supernatural thriller thrown in for good measure.
Haris Owens is unemployed and unaccepted by society. After being given two-weeks to find a job and pay his debts, a shape-shifting bovine entity called Copracorn takes a sudden interest in him and promises to help himput his life back together.
Along the way, Copracorn’s more sinister intentions reveal themselves, and Haris’ life is thrown into even deeper turmoil.
Copracorn delivers a theatrical experience unlike anything audiences have seen before — bold, hilarious, heartwarming, raw, timely, zany, and shocking.
“Copracorn follows right on the heels of the most talked about play of the year so far: Which Way, Millennial Man? which explored the difficulties faced by males from the Millennial generation,” says director and producer Michael K. Potter. “Like that play, Copracorn takes a hard look at the struggles of a generation — in this case, Generation Z.
However, this play takes its own fresh approach. It asks its questions with a lot of zany humour, absurdist insight, and personifies the temptations faced by Zoomers in the form of a fantastical bovine creature who offers an easy way out.”
Written by Kieran Potter, directed and produced by Michael K. Potter, and produced by Fay Lynn, Copracorn stars a veritable who’s who of Windsor’s top acting talent: Nikolas Prsa as Haris Owens; Joey Ouellette as Copracorn; Cheri Scratch as Anya Groustopolis; Heath Camlis as Josh Taylor, Pete Pudgins, Dusty Althaus, and Greg Duncan; Mary Grace Weir as Betty Taylor, Kayla Metzger, Samantha Potts, and Fran Stills; and Michael K. Potter as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Copracorn by Kieran Potter is presented at The Shadowbox Theatre 1501 Howard Avenue (the corner of Howard & Shepherd) in Windsor on May 23, 24, 29, 30, 31; June 5, 6 & 7, 2025. All performances begin at 8 p.m. (doors open 7:30 p.m.).
Tickets are $25 and can be purchased online or at the door (cash, debit, or credit card) if seats are still available.
