Theaturtle, Toronto - Alphonse
Performed by: Alon Nashman
Written by: Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by: Shelley Tepperman
Performed by Dora Nominated actor Alon Nashman, Alphonse bubbles over with theatrical magic and exhilarating language as the solo performer commands the stage like a conductor, bringing the many colours of this story to life. This play's fantastic interweaving of stories provoke reflection on the journey from childhood to adulthood, to celebrate the power of the imagination and finally to begin our own search for the missing child in all of us.
"A One-Man Wonder" Toronto Star
"A Runaway Theatrical Success" Globe and Mail
"Mouawad's Passion for storytelling infuses his show with comic and poetic energy. The absurd is almost sad, the delirious and the dynamic join in the dance and chase away dark thoughts". Le Soir, Brussels
Golgi Apparatus, Toronto - Ahoy!
Created by the company
Performed by: Sandy Gribbin, Christina Serra, and Dan Watson
With only their wits and a rubber dingy, the three clown crusaders Fellini, Can Can and the Colonel set sail on another misadventure. Will they tread water or be hung out to dry? A rough and tumble nautical adventure for all ages.
Buddy Nutt, Pittsburgh - Pickleville
Created by Buddy Nutt
Performed by: Buddy Nutt
Stage Management by: Liz Hammond
Pickleville is a nonverbal musical puppet performance piece portraying the story of Sam the tragedy stricken reluctant dancing pickle man. A story of personal triumph. With the aid of a looping pedal, Buddy Nutt overlaps musical elements to create a full one-man novelty orchestra accompaniment to the action (and inaction) of Sam the pickle puppet. Ultimately his bitter reality is transcended in an absurd frenzy of celebratory dancing climaxing in his own cathartic obliteration.
"Pittsburgh's Tiny Tim" -Rolling Stone Magazine
"Buddy Nutt's expanding bag of musical tricks is going to entertain anyone with an informed sense of whimsy and the nostalgia for a simpler life, away from cell phones and the Internet." -Pittsburgh City Paper
Scrapheap Theatre, Toronto - Hellooo...
Created and performed by Sarah Cormier and Kiersten Tough
in collaboration with Kerry MacPherson
Skirt designed and built by Jennifer Lantz
Scrapheap Theatre digs deep to bring you a calamitous, site-specific comedy. Ever wonder: When yelling down a well, does anybody hear you? And if they do, do they hear you well? Well, is anybody down there…there…there? Join this daring duo as they jump, stumble and careen their way through a subterranean land where everything is what it seems - until it isn't - and one plus one equals two and a half…half…half.
Teatro Arado, Portugal - The Bird of Spring
Written by Pedro Saraiva
Directed by Rosário Costa
Assitant Director: Juliana Rodrigues
Puppet construction: Liliana Oliveira and Jonas Ribeiro
Set design: Nuno Lucena
Set construction: Américo Castanheira
Costumes: D. Ana
Prodution Manager(Portugal): Dulce Miranda
Prodution Manager(Canada): Mário Lourenço
Performed by Pedro Saraiva and Rosário Costa
Spring was hidden between winter and summer. We could only see it once a year. When it arrived we always had good weather. All fields and gardens received it with open arms. But one day everything was turned upside down, and spring took a long time to arrive.
This show is an adaptation of a children’s book written by Pedro Saraiva and illustrated by the Mozambique painter Roberto Chichorro and had it’s premiere in Africa, at the Festival Sur Le Niger 2008 – Mali. In Portugal its premiere was in the Festival Beijamins, a theatre festival for children and youth; and after it’s presention at the Cooking Fire Festival in Toronto it will go to the Arts Bienal in S.Tomé and Prince.
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