THE LIVING
August, 2015
SummerWorks Performance Festival
The Living, a documentary play, inspired by the actual stories of women and girls who survived trauma in post-conflict zones, examines the lives of victims and perpetrators, post-genocide, who live side-by-side in government-issued housing, and NGO-funded campaigns to encourage reconciliation in hopes that the impossible act of forgiveness can end the cycle of revenge.
By Colleen Wagner
Director: Ines Buchli
Assistant Director: Lucy Powis
Producer: Sue Edworthy
Set and Costume Designer: Shawn Kerwin
Lighting Designer: Elizabeth Asselstine
Sound Designer: James McKernan
Movement Director: Erika Batdorf
FEATURING
Kaleb Alexander, Beryl Bain, Francoise Balthazar, Cindy Block, Miriam Fernandes, Gabrielle Graham, Stephanie Jung, Anita La Selva, Richard Lee, Wayne Ward
Photos by Paul Lampert
May, 2015
Theatre Asylum
FORNÉS x 2
The Successful Life of 3 playfully examines the intersecting lives of two men and the woman they love as He, She and 3 careen through ten episodic vaudevillian scenes. Mud is grounded in realism and extends 3’s themes of disenfranchisement to a dramatic climax. The Successful Life of 3 (1965) and Mud (1983), when linked, expose a cycle of consumerism and poverty, while the setting of Kensington Market pays tribute to the style and soul of the Off-Off Broadway movement, with daring avant-garde theatre happening in found spaces.
By Maria Irene Fornés
Director and Producer: Jennifer Herszman Capraru
Dramaturg: Judith Rudakoff
Associate Dramaturg: Lucy Powis
Set Designer: Troy Hourie
Costume Designer: Snezana Pesic
Lighting Designer: Sandra Marcroft
Sound Designer: Cathy Nosaty
FEATURING
Michelle Latimer, Hardee T. Lineham, Jamie Robinson
QUEER BATHROOM STORIES
May, 2014
Libido Productions @
Buddies in Bad Times
Queer Bathroom Stories is a play about lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- and queer experiences in Canada’s public facilities written by Sheila Cavanagh. It is based on interviews conducted for the award-winning Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality and the Hygienic Imagination (2010) book by Cavanagh. The stories open our eyes to the secret sex life of the bathroom and to the gendered politics of the washroom.
By Sheila Cavanaugh
Director: Megan Watson
Dramaturg: Judith Rudakoff
Associate Dramaturg: Amy Bowman
Assistant Dramaturgs: Shawna Blain and Lucy Powis
Production Designer: Cory Sincennes
Sound Designer: Verne Good
FEATURING
Hallie Burt, Tyson James, Chy Ryan Spain
May, 2014
Theatre Aquarius' TA2 Series, Hamilton
HERE
Emily Peters is having a rough year. Her dance career is in shambles. Her apartment is falling apart. And there’s a boy trying to do drywall wherever she goes. Here is about learning how to say goodbye to something you love.
Written and Directed By Aaron Jan
Dramaturg: Lucy Powis
Set and Lighting Designer: Samuel Chang
Composers: Jake Butineau and Spencer Creaghan
Video Designer: Alomar Kocur
FEATURING
Jacqueline Byers, Greg Solomon, Molly Thomas
