Fade to Black

Fade to Black appeared at the 2018 Toronto Queer Theatre Festival. Written and directed by Darren Stewart-Jones, the play featured Nonnie Griffin as aging former Hollywood superstar Bedelia Blake and Nathaniel Bacon as Jamie, her number one fan. Philip Cairns also appeared as Mr. Johnson. The piece was specifically written with Miss Griffin in mind. The play also received a staged reading with a different cast at South Simcoe Theatre's 2019 Four Play Festival.

"Darren Stewart-Jones' Fade to Black is blessed by the presence of Nonnie Griffin as octogenarian Bedelia Blake, a fictionalized America’s Sweetheart of the Classic Hollywood era now living forgotten in a Bronx rattrap -until her community service-appointed Meals on Wheels deliveryman (Nathaniel Bacon) turns out to be a huge fan. Griffin, who starts the show sleeping under an Uta Hagen acting book, is sharp, cynical, and fiery yet frail, appropriately outmatching everyone else on stage. The play’s premise is charming."

- Toronto's Mooney on Theatre, 2018    
        

Nathaniel Bacon and Nonnie Griffin in Fade to Black