Selected Chronology of Original Works:
Luz
Directed by Kate Cayley
Performed by Kyle Cameron, Sarah Cormier and Lea Ambros
Performed at Hub 14, Toronto, May 2005
A new piece based on a traditional Jewish folktale and
exploring themes of contemporary exile and displacement.
The show blends the folktale with writings from Martin Buber
and Franz Kafka, and uses performers, marionettes, rod puppets
and shadow puppets to bring to life artwork by Jakob Steinhardt
and Marc Chagall.
The Yellow Wallpaper Project
Written and directed by Kate Cayley
Performed by Amy Stewart and Anna Sidall
Composer: Abigail Lapell
Produced for the On the Waterfront Theatre Festival, Eastern Front Theatre, Dartmouth, May 2002
Remounted at the ArtWord Theatre, Toronto, November 2002
An adaptation of "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins
Gilman. The piece uses original writing, combined with
Gilman's text and extracts from Michel Foucault, A. S. Byatt
and Lewis Carroll to look at medicine, motherhood, and madness.
A young woman, melancholy after the birth of her first child,
is prescribed a terrifying rest cue by her doctor husband.
Alone in her room, she begins to imagine a figure trapped
behind the hideous wallpaper, until at last the figure comes
out.
"delightfully weird…the story builds to a deliciously terrifying explosion" -Rebecca Caldwell, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 2002
The Clown of God
Written and directed by Kate Cayley
Performed by Patrick Brunet, Kyle Cameron, and Sarah Cormier
Produced for SummerWorks, Toronto, August 2002
The story of a young soldier deserting from the army, the
officer who looks for him, and the woman he meets on his way
home. Using first person accounts, songs and poetry from the
two world wars, the piece mixes physical theatre and
storytelling with work by Primo Levi, Benjamin Peret, and
Charles Simic.
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
by the Company
Directed by Kate Cayley
Produced for SummerWorks (Toronto), and LadyFest Midwest (Chicago), August, 2001. Remounted as an outdoor show and presented at the inaugural Cooking Fire Theatre Festival in Dufferin Grove Park, Toronto, in June 2004.
Performed by Kyle Cameron, Simone Rosenberg, and Christina Serra
A retelling of the Norse folktale of a girl who marries a bear, betrays him, and ultimately saves him.
This was our first show, and was then extensively reworked as an outdoor piece. The piece appeals to adults and children, both telling the story and picking apart its themes of marriage, mothers, daughters, and long journeys with humour, subtlety and double meanings. "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" uses live music and singing, highly physical performances, puppetry and masks.
"Inspired bursts of poetry…A resonant and often beautiful piece by a promising group of young artists" -Kevin Connolly, eye magazine, Toronto, 2001
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