Saskatoon-born playwright’s show coming to Persephone’s stage
Playwright Trina Davies returns home as her rom-com spy thriller The Romeo Initiative debuts at Persephone Theatre Feb. 4–15.
SASKATOON — Saskatoon-born playwright, Trina Davies, will be seeing one of her plays grace the Persephone stage this February.
The Romeo Initiative by Trina Davies will be on stage at Persephone Theatre Feb. 4-15. This is the first time Persephone has produced one of her plays.
“Having a show on the Persephone stage in Saskatoon has always been on the list of things that I hoped would happen someday,” Davies explained. “It’s personal to me to be able to return and share stories with Saskatoon audiences. I grew up walking in the Meewasin valley with my family and visiting the Nutana Bakery for long johns on Broadway on Saturdays. I’m so happy to share The Romeo Initiative with Saskatoon audiences, some of whom will be friends and family. It is a real homecoming to a beautiful theatre in a beautiful province.”
Davies, who still has a lot of extended family in Saskatchewan, will be joining Saskatoon audiences on opening weekend of the play. She called the play a “wonderful excuse to visit and celebrate” with her family.
As a youth, Davies was always interested in theatre and arts. She went to Aden Bowman and took creative writing classes, where she learned more about not only writing fiction, but discovered a talent for poetry.
“There are incredible Saskatchewan writers, and they sometimes visited our class and greatly inspired me,” Davies said. “I was always interested in theatre. I was acting in productions at Castle Theatre in Aden Bowman before we moved provinces. In fact, I was quite upset at the time because I was acting in a one-act play that had just made it to provincials and they would have to replace me because we were moving.”
When they moved to Edmonton half-way through her high school experience, Davies started to act semi-professionally. She worked with many of Canada’s preeminent professional theatre artists at the Citadel Teen Festival of the Arts. She also continued to write poetry and was encouraged by professional artists to get into directing or playwriting.
