A Cocktailer’s Guide to Surviving A Pandemic
By Meghan de Chastelain
Project in development.
When you’ve got a hold of the bottle, it can sometimes feel manageable. But, if it gets poured down your throat and you don’t get to say stop, then very quickly you start to drown.
March 2020. The world shuts down and with it, Elle’s entire career as an actor. Shows are cancelled, contracts are put on hold and mental and financial stability are thrown out the window. So, she sets herself a task: a list of the world’s top 100 cocktails. Something she must work through to help keep her focused. Something to help rebuild a fractured friendship. Something to help her heal from a past that insists on haunting her.
A one-woman show using cocktails to make hard stories easier to swallow. From the bottle to the shaker to the glass, it’s a story about how the world chews us up and spits us back out, but how ultimately we are given the gift in choosing how to respond.
2023 Bruce Millar Graduate Fellowship Award Winner: This project is generously funded through the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s funding scheme.
This project is generously funded through the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s funding scheme. The Bruce Millar Graduate Fellowship "is an opportunity to launch a career or practice with an award of £10,000 for a creative project, performance, phase of research & development, or to launch a creative company”.
Very Rascals is excited to co-produce this project with our associate artist Meghan de Chastelain.