Natalia Bushnik & Darius Rathe in síofra | Photo by Jack Woolfe
I’ve caught a few things from Spindle Collective and have really enjoyed their moody, folk horror offerings. Their collaboration with Eldritch Theatre at the beginning of the year for Dead of Winter: Toronto’s First Horror Theatre Festival was an eerily fruitful partnership and a novel contribution to the local theatre scene. síofra, though, is on a whole ‘nother level of narrative intensity. The second instalment of their “Dark Mother Trilogy”—a dark, folkloric exploration of motherhood (which includes SAMCA, set in Romania, and the Germanic SpilleHOLLE)—takes us to nineteenth century Ireland, where a struggling rural community must contend with sinister forces. Continue Reading