Productions
Hello
HELLO is a story built on the bones of factual truth. The facts are:
World famous playwright Arthur Miller and his last wife, Austrian photojournalist Inge Morath, married in 1962 and had a beautiful daughter. In 1966 they had a son who was born with Down Syndrome. They named him Daniel. Daniel never lived with his family. Instead, he was shut away in an overcrowded, understaffed institution akin to bedlam. For over forty years the general public never knew there was a Daniel Miller.
Why did Mutti say nothing? Why did nobody, including the powerful cultural and artistic community that surrounded the Miller family, say anything? Does this matter?
What if Daniel could step back in time, before he was born, to his birth and onward? What if Daniel could watch the family story unfold? What would Daniel see, what would he say and what might have happened?
HELLO is a work of intimate family discovery through the eyes of Daniel. There is singing, dancing, family feuds, friends, food, and furniture moving, all woven together with moments of astounding truth paired with equally astounding denial. Ultimately, when all is said and done, the final questions are:
Does this matter?...and if so why?
Or
Does this not matter...and if so why not?
Breath-Ahhh
CREW
Director/Collaborative Creator: Susanna Uchatius
Stage Manager: Kathleen Gordon
Music Director/Composer: Angelo Moroni
ASL Theatre Interpreter: Landon Krentz
Poster Design: Bebe Zhang
Costumes, lighting, marketing and technical aspects are a combined crew effort.
CAST
BREATH-AHHH:
Tyson Aubin
Caroline Hebert alternating with Susanna Uchatius
FEAR:
Daryl Dixon
Alex Edwards
Ryan Ollis
Edna Rendaje
ANGER
Katrina Costello
Robin Holmes
Jonah Killoran
JEALOUSY
Lianne Crowe
Shannon Emeruwa
Simran Gill
SORROW
Calum Bente
Willow Eady
Patti Palm
DIRECTORS NOTES
Breath-Ahhh. What is breath?...something that we do every living minute of our life... and yet pay little attention to. We are born and our first breath opens the world to us. Everything is wondrously new. We breathe with wide-eyed joyful gusto. As we grow, life takes sharp turns igniting fear, anger, jealousy and sorrow, all of which causes us to tighten, quicken and abandon the full breath we were born with.
This amazing group of artists of difference dove into physically exploring the essence of breath. How we use it, lose it and why we should embrace our breath fully. BREATH IS FREEDOM!
“We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist.” – Alexander Lowen, The Voice of the Body
Being with Elders
THE ELDERS VOICES PROJECT looks to theatre and the art form in a way that brings the “art” to those who may never have had the opportunity to participate, meaning the elderly who are marginalized due to age, physical and mental health challenges in residential homes where they are often isolated from community interaction.
This project will bring the audience into a space that is often thought of as a place of waiting, non-contribution, burden and death. Audience, including relatives, family and the general public, if not already aware, may come to see it as a rich depository full of life, purpose, relationship and meaning.
Elders have decades of experience in family, relationships, love, home and the life issues we all struggle with. That said, this is not a theatre project about educating the public; rather it is about welcoming inclusiveness, connection, interaction, sharing, questioning, imagination, creation, recognition and value for the immense life treasures our elders have to share.
Above all, the purpose and reason that Theatre Terrific wishes to pursue this project is the building of relationships, respect and connection between our elders, family, friends, the younger generation and perhaps those who do not have the connection to elders from which to benefit.
We seek to stitch together a quilt of many textures, colors, movements, voices, writings, art and song. We will collaboratively create with Elders, family and actors seeking to celebrate, honor and publicly present within the Elders home, the riches of our shared humanity.
WORKIN'
WHEN: September 6 - 15
TIME: 7PM to 9PM
WHERE: WOODWARDS HERITAGE BUILDING
111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
TICKETS: vancouverfringe.com or cash at door
“Workin’” – this large cast musical play will be part of the Vancouver Fringe Festival in September 2019 and also the Heart of the City Festival Oct/Nov 2019. It will be performed in the Woodwards Heritage Building Atrium a major city centre crossroads. The question always asked is; “What do you do?” Workin’ will address the personal and public value of work, the hierarchical status of different types of work, who works where and why. What defines ‘something’ as work and ‘something else’ as NOT work?
"I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
~ Helen Keller