Her Side of the Story: Revision to ResistFeaturing 4 revisioned narratives by 4 award-winning Canadian and internationalplaywrights:
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
The Last Wife by Kate Hennig
What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband by Elfriede Jelinek, Translated by Tinch Minter
Fucking A by Suzan Lori-Parks
About the festival
Her Side of the Story: Revision to Resist is a festival of performances, encounters and exchanges around women who revise known narratives to reclaim Her Side of the Story from the footnotes.
The festival is theatre unplugged; a lab for exchange and an opportunity to explore character, text and story with radical imagination and depth.
Directed by Tamara Brown, Cristina Cugliandro, Sophie Gee and Jen Quinn
Environment Design by: Diana Uribe and Tim Rodrigues
Featuring Quincy Armorer, Deena Aziz, Benita Bailey, Tamara Brown Stefanie Buxton, Teneisha Collins, Eric Davis, Diana Fajrajsl, Matthew Gagnon, Joel Gorrie, Gitu Jain, Matthew Kabwe, Amanda Kellock, Oliver Koomsatira, Cat Lemieux, Gabriel Maharjan, Carlo Mestroni, Tina Milo, Leni Parker, Mike Payette, Alex Petrachuk, Anne-Marie Saheb, Kathleen Stavert, Malika Tirolien, athena kaitlin trinh, Katherine Turnbull, Victor Trelles, Jen Viens
Crédits supplémentaires et autres informations
The Penelopiad
by Margaret Atwood
Directed by Jen Quinn
October 31 at 8pm
November 5 at 1:30 pm
A revisioning of Homer's The Odyssey where Odysseus’ wife Penelope and her chorus of maids unearth perspectives that were footnoted in the iconic Greek myth.
The Last Wife
by Kate Hennig
Directed by Tamara Brown
November 1 at 8pm
November 4 at 1:30pm
A contemporary revisioning of history and the reign of King Henry VIII from the perspective of Katherine Parr, Henry’s sixth wife and an instrumental mentor to a young Queen Elizabeth I.
What Happened after Nora Left Her Husband
by Elfriede Jelinek
Translated by Tinch Minter
Directed by Cristina Cugliandro
November 3 & 4 at 8pm
A revisioning of Ibsen's plays, A Doll's House and The Pillars of Society, that explores Nora's life - her search for freedom and self - in the time after she has left her husband.
Fucking A
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Sophie Gee
November 2 & 5 at 8pm
A revisioning of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter that tells the story of Hester, a woman branded with an A for her work as an abortionist and a mother willing to sacrifice her life to save her son.
Tickets are $20, $15 for students/seniors, artists or Pay-What-You-Decide at the door.
Visit http://www.imagotheatre.ca/paywhatyoudecide/ for more information.
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