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Specimen Collective is proud to present
Specimen,
directed by Griffin McInnes.
Specimen
is a performance adaptation of
One Boy’s Day: A Specimen Record of Behavior
by Roger Barker & Herbert Right.
In development since 2015, Specimen has lived several forms; after movement workshops and a research lab residency at hub14, we are now eager to share the full stage production with audiences.
Between 1947 and 1972, social scientists Roger Barker, Herbert
Wright, and their team of observers lived amongst residents in
Oskaloosa, Kansas, studying their everyday activities and
behaviours.
One Boy’s Day (1952) is their first book, an observation of seven-year-old
Raymond Birch.
Specimen
brings together an impressive team of artists, helmed by director
and playwright Griffin McInnes, an associate artist with Outside
The March; and featuring performances by Rob Feetham as Raymond
(Corpus Dance Project’s Les Moutons and Nuit Blanche
in Japan, Germany, Norway, Taiwan, South Korea and China, and Fixt
Point’s Tale of a Town Project) and
Jennah Foster-Catlack as the observer (Mystageleft’s Hairspray, First Act
Productions’ Hair, and 360 Productions’ The F Word).
The show features sound design by Daniel Bennett
(Extremophiles, Plucked, SQUAT: A Super Secret Back-Alley Musical),
set design by Petra O’Toole (Fake Nerd Girl, Feast of Fools, Lioness,
Waiting For Batteries),
and lighting and projection design by Hans Krause
(Waterline, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and Jerusalem).
Specimen
Adapted from
One Boy’s Day: A Specimen Record of Behavior
by
Roger Barker
&
Herbert Right
Adapted and directed by
Griffin McInnes
Featuring
Rob Feetham
and
Jennah Foster-Catlack
Specimen is an uncanny performance experience: an adaptation of a
psychology book from 1949 tracking the behaviour of a seven
year-old boy. It’s a little sinister, very funny… and not like any
performance you’ve seen.
The Commons Space,
587a College St.
Tickets $10-$30
Tickets and information:
Photo: Rob Feetham.
2018-06-11
Toronto: The Specimen Collective presents "Specimen" June 20-24