Curtain Call

Curtain Call follows a group of young actors as they navigate the chaos, conflict, and camaraderie of a stage production, which—unlike a film—cannot be edited! As the film reveals—and as any theatre student knows—the real drama happens long before the curtain rises. When we suspend our disbelief and surrender to a theatrical performance, it’s easy not to think about the risks that the actors are taking or the vulnerability they’re exposing. But, in the fractured reality of backstage and human ego, those things are key elements of the story. As the film’s various subjects navigate their relationships with each other, along with their individual hopes, fears, and insecurities, Curtain Call offers a useful analogy for human behaviour and how we’re all so concerned with projecting a successful performance, despite the messy reality that inevitably exists behind the scenes.