BEFORE HER TIME

A National Theatre School of Canada production

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BEFORE HER TIME
Three plays by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Jon Lachlan Stewart (Directing, 2014)
April 22 to 26, 2014, 8 pm
MainLine Theatre
A National Theatre School of Canada production

ROCKABY
A woman sits motionless in her old rocking chair as an invisible force rocks her away. A ghost of her own voice, her own other, winds her back through memory. Rockaby is a mysterious lull through and into death, sung by a woman for herself, who is confronted with the reality of a premature end.

FOOTFALLS
May walks. And the voice of her mother in the darkness behind her repeats a familiar matriarchal routine, asking to be cared for… sponged down… injected… and changed position again. In Footfalls, Beckett haunts the audience with an eerie relationship that seems to completely remove time and space all together. Footfalls exposes both the tender care and repeated suffering underlying this complex relationship of mother and daughter.

NOT I
A woman soon abandoned by her mother and father after birth lived mute, not speaking a word, for seventy years. Now, the mouth speaks, spews, pours out her story, uncontrollably and unwillingly until the end. Not I features a simple, shocking image: a single mouth, suspended eight feet above ground, speaking non-stop until whatever she’s finding can be found. A hallucinating theatre performance piece.

CAST
Deena Aziz
Georgina Beaty
Danette Mackay

DESIGN AND PRODUCTION TEAM
Evita Karasek (Set and Costume Design, 2012), Set and Costume Design
Audrey-Anne Bouchard, Lighting Design
Nikita U, Sound Design
Jacynthe Lalonde (Production, 2012), Production Manager and Technical Director
Crystal Laffoley (Production, 2013), Stage Manager

HORAIRE / SCHEDULE

  • Mardi 22 Avril 2014 / 20:00
  • Mercredi 23 Avril 2014 / 20:00
  • Jeudi 24 Avril 2014 / 20:00
  • Vendredi 25 Avril 2014 / 20:00
  • Samedi 26 Avril 2014 / 20:00

90 minutes
Pas de retardataires / No latecomers

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