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Under the direction of award-winning theatre director David Ferry, 16 Randolph Academy students will bring an innovative "bookwork" to life during the 2015 Pages Unbound Festival, an annual mixed media festival where writers are encouraged to collaborate with musicians, filmmakers, dancers, graphic novelists, animators, and digital artists. The Pages Unbound Festival runs May 7-10 at the Randolph Theatre; Fabulous Fictions takes place during the vaudeville-esque Cabaret of Wild Culture at 9 p.m. on May 9.
The students will be presenting one scene from a larger multidisciplinary project under development based on Fabulous Fictions and Peculiar Practices, a multifaceted artistic and literary project between poet Leon Rooke and artist Tony Calzetta. Collaborating with Visual Artist Tony Calzetta and author Leon Rooke, David Ferry used techniques learned from his own mentor, Governor General Award-winning playwright James Reaney, to turn narrative poems into a script for theatrical performance, creating a series of physical and textual images, as well as integrating music and "live" creation with painter Calzetta. Covering political satire, economics, sex and marriage, aging, art and artists, Fabulous Fictions and Peculiar Practices is satirical, irreverent, playful, and provocative, and features characters like Cézanne, an Italian aristocrat, a vulgar Scotswoman, a bank manager, an art critic, a fairy godfather...and God himself.
The workshop cast includes students Tyler Burton, Mason Micevski, Bradley Delarosbel, Jean-Francois Soucy, Greg Rola, Jahlen Barnes, Matt Lacas, Samantha Hancock, Veronika Slowikowska, Taylor Hubbard, Cait Gautron, Daniella Richards, Maighdlin Mahoney, Brittany Banks, Tala Nazzal and Danielle Bernardin.
The project is one of many creation-based collaborations at the Academy this year, following the redevelopment of new musical Lord of the Fries by Kieren MacMillan and Jeremy Hutton with College Program students, and the upcoming premiere of the new musical This Is My Life by Anika Johnson (Brantwood) and Barbara Johnston with Kids Program students.
FROM PAGE TO STAGE
Randolph Academy Students bring
FABULOUS FICTIONS AND PECULIAR PRACTICES to Life
at Pages Unbound Festival's Cabaret of Wild Culture
May 9, 2015, Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst St.
Tickets: Eventbrite.ca
2015-05-08
Toronto: Randolph Academy Student present "Fabulous Fictions and Peculiar Practices" on May 9