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All the Little Animals I Have Eaten Written & Directed by Karen Hines a nightwood theatre 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 nightwoodtheatre.net Cover photo of Amanda Cordner by Dahlia Katz 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 feminism, 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 company Maddie Bautista Maddie Bautista is a Bi, Saudi Arabia-born Filipinx sound designer and theatre artist. Maddie has been nominated for a Dora Award for her music in Eraser at RISER 2019, and also nominated for the 2020 Pauline McGibbon Award. Selected sound credits: bug (Theatre Passe Muraille), Wah Wah Wah (Wildside 2020), Private Eyes (lemonTree creations), The Winter’s Tale (Shakespeare in the Ruff), Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers, and Little Brothers (b current). Her performance art duo xLq has received the Nightswimming’s 5x25 2017 Commission and NOW Magazine’s Audience Choice Award 2018 for co-creating 4inXchange, which is currently touring across Canada. She is the recipient of fu-GEN Theatre’s inaugural Walk the Walk Commission for emerging femme Asian-Canadian playwrights for her play Kersey Kamayan Gets Woke. http://www.maddiebautista.com Bonnie Beecher Bonnie has designed over 350 productions for theatre, opera and dance across Canada and internationally. Recent productions include SEX (shaw festival), The Crucible (Stratford), Rigoletto (Edmonton Opera), Seid Umschlangen (Karlsruhe Ballet, Germany), Jacqueline (Tapestry Opera), Paradise Lost (Centaur theatre), and Mary Poppins, and ROOM (The Grand ). Upcoming projects include Maria Stuart (Karlsruhe Ballet, Germany), The Devils Disciple (Shaw), and Swan Lake (National Ballet of Canada). Pip Bradford Pip Bradford is a production manager and stage manager for many companies in Toronto, including Anandam DanceTheatre, The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, ProArte Danza, 7a*11d Performance Art Festival, SummerWorks Performance Festival, Red Sky Performance, Nightwood Theatre, Ahuri Theatre, and The Theatre Centre. Pip also creates installation art with Rebecca Vandevelde as Art is Hard Productions and is one of the founders of The Bellows, a monthly mixer aimed at bringing artists and production staff together. Ellen Brooker Ellen Brooker is a stage manager, production manager, and production designer and builder. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Applied Imagination in the Creative Industries from Central St Martin’s (London, England), and has been happily applying her imagination to exciting projects in Toronto and internationally ever since. Selected credits include: • Production Manager for Kingston-based digital arts festival, foldA 2020 • Costume and Set Design Assistant for Lucid Ludic’s Brain Storm, in Association with Why Not Theatre • Stage Management for Morro & Jasp: Save the Date at Red Pearl Womxn international clown festival, Helsinki 2020 • Stage Management for Soup Can Theatre and Three Ships Collective’s 2019 remount of A Christmas Carol at Campbell House Museum Find her next in development with comedic mastermind Kat Letwin’s creepy Fringe 2020 show, and with CorpOLuz Theatre’s Siranoush, an excerpt of which was well received at the 2019 Caminos Festival. 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 University of Toronto-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 Richard Feren Richard has been creating music & sound designs for theatre, dance & film since 1992. For Nightwood: A Blow In The Face, Asking For It, Unholy, Refuge. Recent theatre: The Flick, Jerusalem, Dr. Silver (Outside The March), Betrayal, Copenhagen, Sisters, Animal Farm (Soulpepper); Measure For Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Every Brilliant Thing (CanadianStage); The Father, The Nether (Coal Mine); Beautiful Man (Factory Theatre); Every Brilliant Thing, The Wars, Silence (The Grand Theatre). Film/TV: Features: It’s Hard To Be Human; The Anniversary; Burning, Burning; A Trip to the Island; Past Perfect; Possible Worlds. Numerous short films. Awards: 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award, seven Dora Awards, shortlisted for 2012 Siminovitch Prize. Gillian Gallow Selected Design
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