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(Toronto ON, February 18, 2016) - Still is the story of a professor, her midwife, a dominatrix, and a baby who never got to be. Morgan's son was born dead, Dolores is pregnant with a child she doesn't want, and failed midwife Elena seeks either redemption or a career change. All three women confront their fears, desires, and each other, while Morgan's baby is running out of time to find her.
Binocular Theatre’s production runs March 4-13 at Unit 102 (376 Dufferin/Queen). This is the play’s professional premiere, following a run earlier this year at The Juilliard School.
In awarding New York playwright JEN SILVERMAN the prestigious Yale Horn Prize in 2013 for Still, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman wrote, “I have read other plays on the subject of a stillborn child, but none…with language both surreal and trashy, none as funny, and none as moving.”
“We need more plays like Still that reveal the depth and complexity of relationships between women,” says director ALI JOY RICHARDSON. “This story digs into our curiosity and fear surrounding alternative birth practices, death, women’s bodies, and female sexuality. Watching the play is a wild dance between heartbreak and laughter.”
Still features JULIE TEPPERMAN as the midwife Elena (Dora Award winning co-artistic director of Convergence Theatre, co-creator of the hugely popular immersive musical BRANTWOOD), CHRISTOPHER ALLEN as the dead baby Constantinople (Canadian Stage’s Shakespeare in High Park), ALICIA RICHARDSON as the dominatrix Dolores (Obsidian Theatre Playwrights Unit), and ANNEMIEKE WADE (Roseneath Theatre’s new Managing Director) as the grieving professor Morgan, who will be performing the role in the midst of her own pregnancy.
“I’m really excited to have conversations about these taboo topics; the messy parts of birth” says WADE.
Director ALI JOY RICHARDSON is joined on the creative team by set/costume designer MICHELLE TRACEY (An Enemy of the People, Taking Care of Baby, Shakespeare in High Park), sound designer NICK POTTER, lighting designer STEVE VARGO, co-producer LAURA JABALEE, and stage managers AJ LAFLAMME and KELSEY RUTLEDGE.
Tickets are $20 and are on sale here through Brown Paper Tickets. Performances are March 4-6 at 8pm, and March 10-13 at 8pm plus a 2pm matinee on March 12.
Still is Binocular Theatre’s inaugural production and will be followed by a production of Jordan Tannahill’s Get Yourself Home Skyler James in July. More about the company and Still here.
Still is made possible through the support of the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Network, Come As You Are Co-operative, and Killam Properties.
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2016-02-18
Toronto: Binocular Theatre presents "Still" March 4-13