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June 4, 5, 6, 7
Théâtre Prospero
English : 2h15, with intermission
in partnership with : Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal |
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Theatre of Pardon
Deep within the bowels of the Northwest Territories were nestled two atomic bombs — Little Boy and Fat Man. To bring back to life the memory of those who died as we charged along the road to uranium, Marie Clements has symbolically retraced their journey. Starting from the land of her ancestors, she travels down the length of the Mackenzie River, crosses the United States and makes her way to Hiroshima. Looming from the shadows are characters she has created. Their paths will cross between 1880 and 1945, gradually revealing the blind force they will smash into. The heart of this ritualistic device is a mine around which stories spin and unwind in circles and in broken lines. On this vast land furrowed by light and disembowelled by the roar of war and progress, wandering souls strike the first notes of a symphony of pardon.
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© Tim Matheson
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Rumble Productions has kindled a winner with Burning Vision, a brave new play that bombards the senses and fires up the mind. The Globe and Mail
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Marie Clements |
| DRAMATURG |
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Paula Danckert |
| DIRECTION |
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Peter Hinton |
| SET DESIGN |
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Andreas Kahre |
| LIGHTING DESIGN |
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John Webber |
| COSTUME DESIGN |
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Barbara Clayden |
| SOUND DESIGN |
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Noah Drew |
| PROPS DESIGN |
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Erinne Drake |
| TECHNICAL DIRECTOR |
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Del Surjik |
| STAGE MANAGER |
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Galia Goodwin |
| ASSISTANT TO STAGE MANAGER |
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Brandy Hanuse Corlett |
| PRODUCED BY |
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Norman Armour |
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CAST
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| Little Boy |
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Koonis Joyal-Sinclair |
| Brother Labine 2 / The Miner / Stevedore |
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Marcus Hondro |
| Koji |
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Hiro Kanagawa |
| The Widow / The Japanese Grandmother |
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Margo Kane |
| Brother Labine 1 / The Dene Ore Carrier / Stevedore |
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Kevin Loring |
| Round Rose / Tokyo Rose |
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Julie Tamiko Manning |
| Fatman / Captain Mike | |
Allan Morgan |
| Rose |
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Lisa C. Ravensbergen |
| Radium Painter |
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Erin Wells |
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Marie Clements and Urban Ink Productions
Very active in theatre across North America, Marie Clements resides in Vancouver. She has written and published several works that have been very well received, including Urban Tattoo, presented in 2001 at the FTA, An Age of Iron and The Unnatural and Accidental Women. She was recently in Montreal as artist-in-residence at Playwrights’ Workshop and guest professor working with playwrighting students at the National Theatre School. She is currently putting the finishing touches to Copper Thunderbird, which was given a staged reading under the direction of Yves Sioui Durand during the 3e Rencontre nationale des théâtres autochtones, presented in association with the Festival de théâtre des Amériques in 2001.
The company she founded in 2001, Urban Ink, focuses on the creation and development of contemporary Native art in all its forms — theatre, dance, music, film and video — with the emphasis on an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach.
Peter Hinton
Director Peter Hinton shares with Marie Clements a passionate interest for an interdisciplinary approach and an exploration of different yet closely linked art forms. For the past twenty years he has been working in theatre and opera, exploring the diverse worlds of classical and contemporary writers. He has brought that same passion to the Canadian stage, which Festivalgoers witnessed in his direction of Greg MacArthur’s play girls ! girls ! girls !, presented at the Festival de théâtre des Amériques in 2001 as part of the Nouvelle Scène series.
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