a production in association with crow's Theatre All the Little animals I have eaten Written & Directed by Karen Hines

livestream reading april 3, 2020 all the little animals i have eaten Written & Directed by karen hines starring Amanda Cordner, Belinda Corpuz, Lucy Hill, Amy Rutherford & Zorana Sadiq creative team Written and Directed by Karen Hines Set and Costume Design by Gillian Gallow Lighting Design by Bonnie Beecher Music & Sound Design by Richard Feren* Choreography by Tracey Power Production Dramaturgy by Guillermo Verdecchia Stage Management by Ken James Stewart Assistant Direction by Teiya Kasahara** Associate Sound Designer Maddie Bautista Head of Wardrobe Joyce Padua Co-Production Managers Pip Bradford & Ellen Brooker Accessibility Consultant Jess Watkin

Song: Melody & Lyrics by Karen Hines; Arrangement by Richard Feren, Additional Harmonies by the Cast.

*Roughly adapted for streamed experience **Made possible by the Canada Council for the arts

For Company Bios and Headshots, visit: www.shorturl.at/cBDPW a message from the artistic director

When we had to make the heartbreaking decision to pull the plug on Karen Hines’ All the Little Animals I Have Eaten, we were about to go into tech. It was the reality of imagining the tech week process underscored by fear and uncertainty, imagining set pieces and lighting instruments abandoned in the theatre, and imagining folks travelling to work that made us make the call. My phone call to Karen was my first tear-filled conversation as an AD to an artist. I couldn’t imagine her heartbreak. Deep down she knew - we all (maybe) knew - that we were holding onto impossible hope and had to let go.

So all I could say to our amazing supporters was that there would be some sort of creative documentation that we would offer - we didn’t know what. It took dozens of conversations to know if we had the will and unanimous agreement (and mental wellness) at our disposal to pull together a livestream while we grieved. That on top of caretaking, homeschooling, gorging on news, (and coordinating easements from associations who would never under normal circumstances allow us to do this) made us unsure.

But we wanted to create a moment of hope, thanks and closure for our cast and creative team, as well as our community. To our knowledge 99% of tickets have been turned into donations, which speaks to the enormous generosity of the people who come and share moments in the dark with us.

As with everyone, we’ve been learning all sorts of hacks with Zoom to make our lives still roll. And it goes without saying that a reading on Zoom streamed over Youtube is no substitution for a production. But there is something amazing to appreciate in the resilience of our kind to put away our desire for the exquisite, the polished, and the transcendent to make way for the heart. I’m grateful to Karen, and this gorgeous cast and creative team for making such beauty out of the corner we’ve painted ourselves into in search of biggering and bettering. Enjoy your time with us here at La Ferme!

Andrea Donaldson Artistic Director On behalf of all of us at Nightwood a message from karen hines playwright note All the Little Animals I Have Eaten is for my nieces, Jade, Becky, and Zoë. Also for Laine and Vaughan and all the nephews, too. literary acknowledgements The conversations in this play find their source in conversations I had with the following friends and authors, or stole from their pages.

Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Anne Sexton, Qiu Miaojin, May Ayim, Jia Tolentino, Alison Bechdel and Liz Wallace are all quoted directly - from their works, journals, articles, letters and interviews. Also quoted, directly or directly are Kate Lynch, Kathleen Oliver, Blake Brooker, Alana Wilcox, Maev Beaty, Derek Parfit, Jamie Dunsdon, Jamie Tognazzini, Karen Fricker, Susan Sontag, Jessica Moss, Jennifer Egan, Guillermo Verdecchia, Laurie Penny, Jennifer Kesler, Joe Wenderoth, Marina O'Loughlin, John Cassidy, The Dark Mountain Collective. playwright acknowledgements Blake Brooker and Guillermo Verdecchia both went with me beyond dramaturgy, through waves of , to athleisure and barre, and back again. Their words are embedded in the text. Playwrights Colleen Murphy and John Murrell O.C., A.O.C, cherished mentors. The Posse of Four: Denise Clarke, Georgina Beaty, Nadien Chu, Ellen Close. The Posse of Five, Amanda Cordner, Belinda Corpuz, Lucy Hill, Amy Rutherford, Zorana Sadiq - all blazingly generous. Johanne Deleeuw, Kenneth J. Stewart. Cassie Negel, Iris Turcott. And gratitude to all the many actors who have read this play aloud and talked about whatever it is women talk about. all the little animals i have eaten development history All the Little Animals I Have Eaten was first presented publicly in 2017 with a more embryonic version of the script, and was produced by One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre as part of the High Performance Rodeo in Calgary that year.

All the Little Animals I Have Eaten was directed and dramaturged by Blake Brooker. It was staged by Denise Clarke. the cast Amanda Cordner Amanda Cordner is a creator and performer currently creating and performing in Toronto.

Belinda Corpuz Belinda Corpuz is a Filipina-Canadian actor, singer/songwriter, musician, and creator. Her EP, All I Am, has garnered national radio-play, including features on CBC Radio. Belinda is a core member of Filipina multi-award-winning group, Tita Collective. She holds a BMus in Performance - Jazz Voice from the -Faculty of Music. Selected Theatre: Lady Sunrise (Factory Theatre), Tita Jokes (Tita Collective), Hilot Means Healer (Cahoots), Prairie Nurse (Factory Theatre/Thousand Islands Playhouse) Film: Lola’s Wake (Canadian Film Centre), Jezebel (Reel Asian International Film Festival), Clown Killer (Wattpad/Cinecoup). www.belindacorpuz.com

Lucy Hill Lucy is delighted to be making her Nightwood Theatre/Crow’s Theatre debut with All the LIttle Animals I Have Eaten. Select theatre: Cake Walk (The Blyth Festival); Girls Like That (Tarragon Theatre); I, Claudia (Neptune Theatre, Imperial Theatre, Globe Theatre); The Cure for Death by Lightning (Western Canada Theatre); Tails from the City (Common Boots Theatre); The Night’s Mare, The Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy (Caravan Farm Theatre); That Summer, The Clockmaker (Theatre North West); Gracie, Romeo & Juliet (Globe Theatre). Select improv: Toronto, I Love You, La Grande Jatte, The Curator, and Pushpins (Bad Dog Theatre).Select film/TV: Shut Up (written by and starring Lucy), Band Ladies, The Baroness von Sketch Show, Soul Decision Comedy. www.lucyadelehill.com & @lucyadelehill Amy Rutherford Amy Rutherford trained at The National Theatre School and Stratford Conservatory. Selected theatre credits include: A Streetcar Named Desire (Soulpepper Theatre) As You Like It (Canadian Stage) Our Class (Studio 180) The Great Gatsby (Theatre Calgary) Divisadero (Necessary Angel) and Goodness (Volcano Theatre) Amy has also written several plays including Mortified (Studio 58, Touchstone) which recently won The PGC's Carol Bolt Award for best play of 2018.

Zorana Sadiq A Toronto-based actor and singer, Zorana has recently been seen in Bend it Like Beckham (Starvox), Towards Youth (Crow’s Theatre), Helen’s Necklace (Canadian Rep Theatre), The Enchanted Loom (Cahoots Theatre), Tout Comme Elle (Necessary Angel Theatre), Sultans of the Street (Young People’s Theatre- Dora Mavor Moore Award), CHILD-ISH (Summerworks), Eleven Moons (Boston Musica Viva), Afghanistan: Requiem for a Generation (Calgary Philharmonic and the Vancouver Symphony). Zorana has participated in new creation workshops with the Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, Tapestry and Canadian Rep Theatre. Television appearances include: Burnt Toast and The Mulroneys (Rhombus Media) Little Mosque on the Prairie, Designated Survivor, and Kim’s Convenience. Upcoming: The Comedy of Errors (Canadian Stage), Paradise Lost (Canadian Stage).

For Creative Team bios and headshots, visit: www.shorturl.at/cBDPW about nightwood theatre As Canada's foremost feminist theatre, Nightwood provides an essential home for the creation of extraordinary theatre by women. Founded in 1979, Nightwood Theatre has created and produced award-winning plays, which have received Dora Mavor Moore, Chalmers, Trillium, and Governor Genera's Awards. Now celebrating its milestone 40th Anniversary Season, Nightwood has long been recognized for artistic excellence, ongoing advocacy for women in Canadian theatre, and for its investment, training, and development of emerging female talent. staff Andrea Donaldson Artistic Director Beth Brown Managing Director Naz Afsahi Artistic Associate & Business Manager Victoria Laberge Director of Development Taylor Trowbridge Director of Marketing & Outreach Amanda Lin Marketing & Development Assistant Donna-Michelle St. Bernard Write From the Hip Program Director Chris Mustard Financial Advisor, Young & Associates Teiya Kasahara Artist in Residence and Write From the Hip Program Associate* Colette Habel Arts Management Intern , , Founding Members , *This position is made possible through the Canada Council for the Arts board of directors advisory committee Susan Hodkinson (Chair) Sylvia Chrominska Chantria Tram (Treasurer/Secretary) Valerie Hussey The Honourable Sarmite Bulte Michele Landsberg Paul Butler Jan Ruby Edina Cavalli Sonja Smits Hilary Green Pamela Taylor Sharlene Kanhai Caroline Ursulak Dr. Barbara Moses Maria Zakos

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