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Drive Theatre teams up with Fierce Backbone for three workshop showings of Cailin Maureen Harrison’s supernatural WWII drama “Defenders.”

Friday, Dec. 9 at 8:00pm
Saturday, Dec. 10 at 4:00pm
Sunday, Dec. 11 at 2:00pm

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“In ages since, time and again Nature has shown little mercy to Iceland’s invaders, keeping the vow made to her people long ago…”

The line between myth and reality blurs in this supernatural WWII drama. When three American G.I.s are sent to set up a radio base on the tiny Icelandic island of Hrisey, they inadvertently end up shipwrecked. The trio finds themselves very alone with a broken machine gun, missing weapons, few supplies, and a silent radio that has no reason not to work. To make matters worse, Hrisey is in the throes of the worst storm in living history.

As the mysterious history of Hrisey’s long-ago battle with pirate invaders comes slowly to light, the lines between fantasy and reality, between the past and the present, begin to blur, forcing the American soldiers to ask just who is defending whom.

Director: Doug Oliphant
Producer-Dramaturge: Kat Reinbold
Sound Designer: Veronica Mullins
Lighting Designer: Jesse Fryery
Poster Design: William Reinbold

FEATURING:
Thomas Anthony (TJ) Jones as Lieutenant Jansen
Zach Brown as Sergeant McKinley
Jeremy Kinser as Private LeFleur
Warren Davis as Reverend Geir
Nora King as Vigdis

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