A work-in-progress reading of Ana's Shadow, the sequel to Harriet's House, will take place at:
The 519 Church Street Community Centre
519 Church Street (Wellesley subway station)
Toronto
Friday August 26, 2011
5-7 pm.
Featuring original music and a performance by Chantelle Pike and Hannah Dean from Eyes of Gertrude.
Admission is free.
Join us for the continuing story of Harriet and her daughters Luisa, Ana and Marty.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Gailey Road Productions: Summer 2011
Ana's Shadow
This week Gailey Road begins planning for the August workshop of Ana's Shadow, which is the sequel to my play Harriet's House.. The workshop will take place August 22-26, 2011 and conclude with a public reading of the latest draft of the script on Friday August 26, 2011. Details on the public reading will be available very soon.
Ana’s Shadow continues the story of Harriet, and her three daughters: Luisa and Ana, and Clare. Luisa is back in Toronto and planning to study medicine. Ana is an emerging singer songwriter. Clare is in high school and excited about her upcoming trip to Colombia with Luisa to start building the health clinic the family has raised money for. However, the breast cancer that Harriet was diagnosed with three years ago is back, and Ana’s reaction is pure panic. To her family’s dismay, she drops out of university to take care of Harriet. Ana’s world becomes smaller and increasingly wrapped up with Harriet’s care until an opportunity to compete in Canadian Idol falls her way. Ana is reluctant to leave Harriet and join the competition until Marty, Harriet’s partner, helps her find a way to give it a go. When Ana is cut from the competition, her sister Luisa starts pressuring her to go to Colombia for the summer to reconnect with their birth family. However, Ana refuses to anywhere until Harriet is finished chemotherapy and is angry that Luisa is leaving when she is needed at home. She asks Luisa to postpone the trip. When Luisa refuses, the two sisters stop talking. Luisa and Clare leave for Colombia and Ana stays in Toronto. When the chemotherapy stops working, however, Harriet needs to find a way to help Luisa and Ana reconcile. Quickly.
Ana' Shadow features two original songs composed by British singer songwriters Chantelle Pike and Hannah Dean: Absent Impact and Chanting. To read more about Chantelle and Hannah's work and to listen to their music visit: www.myspace.com/eyesforgertrude and http://www.myspace.com/chantellepike.
Chantelle and Hannah will also be playing at the Silver Dollar in Toronto on August 5, 2011 at 8:30 pm.
Staging Harriet's House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre
Staging Harriet's House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre, the book I've working on for the last six months, is now completed and is in the process of being typeset at Peter Lang Publishers. Staging Harriet's House tells a set of stories of how I wrote and produced Harriet’s House, a research-informed play about transnational adoption in a same-sex family, for the 2010 Toronto Pride Festival. In doing so, it offers some practical advice to others who want to write and produce research-informed theatre. The book begins with a story of how I became part of the world of research-informed playwriting and why researchers, playwrights and theatre artists choose to write and stage research-informed theatre. It then moves on to a set of stories of how I wrote and work shopped the play, found a venue, put together an artistic team, created a budget, pursued funding, publicized the production, and assessed the quality of the project. In writing about research-informed theatre, I draw on the experiences of other writers and theatre artists as well as my own. Readers will find references to work by American, Australian, British, and other Canadian research-informed theatre artists. The last chapter of the book lists ten questions I have been asked about Harriet’s House, research-informed theatre and arts-based research and provides answers to these questions. This last chapter is followed by three appendices that include a copy of the performance script, biographies of the artistic team and a selected bibliography on research-informed theatre for readers who would like to read more.
It's great to be home in Toronto and to begin working on Ana's Shadow, Gailey Road's next project. Details about our public reading will be available soon!
All the best
Tara
This week Gailey Road begins planning for the August workshop of Ana's Shadow, which is the sequel to my play Harriet's House.. The workshop will take place August 22-26, 2011 and conclude with a public reading of the latest draft of the script on Friday August 26, 2011. Details on the public reading will be available very soon.
Ana’s Shadow continues the story of Harriet, and her three daughters: Luisa and Ana, and Clare. Luisa is back in Toronto and planning to study medicine. Ana is an emerging singer songwriter. Clare is in high school and excited about her upcoming trip to Colombia with Luisa to start building the health clinic the family has raised money for. However, the breast cancer that Harriet was diagnosed with three years ago is back, and Ana’s reaction is pure panic. To her family’s dismay, she drops out of university to take care of Harriet. Ana’s world becomes smaller and increasingly wrapped up with Harriet’s care until an opportunity to compete in Canadian Idol falls her way. Ana is reluctant to leave Harriet and join the competition until Marty, Harriet’s partner, helps her find a way to give it a go. When Ana is cut from the competition, her sister Luisa starts pressuring her to go to Colombia for the summer to reconnect with their birth family. However, Ana refuses to anywhere until Harriet is finished chemotherapy and is angry that Luisa is leaving when she is needed at home. She asks Luisa to postpone the trip. When Luisa refuses, the two sisters stop talking. Luisa and Clare leave for Colombia and Ana stays in Toronto. When the chemotherapy stops working, however, Harriet needs to find a way to help Luisa and Ana reconcile. Quickly.
Ana' Shadow features two original songs composed by British singer songwriters Chantelle Pike and Hannah Dean: Absent Impact and Chanting. To read more about Chantelle and Hannah's work and to listen to their music visit: www.myspace.com/eyesforgertrude and http://www.myspace.com/chantellepike.
Chantelle and Hannah will also be playing at the Silver Dollar in Toronto on August 5, 2011 at 8:30 pm.
Staging Harriet's House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre
Staging Harriet's House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre, the book I've working on for the last six months, is now completed and is in the process of being typeset at Peter Lang Publishers. Staging Harriet's House tells a set of stories of how I wrote and produced Harriet’s House, a research-informed play about transnational adoption in a same-sex family, for the 2010 Toronto Pride Festival. In doing so, it offers some practical advice to others who want to write and produce research-informed theatre. The book begins with a story of how I became part of the world of research-informed playwriting and why researchers, playwrights and theatre artists choose to write and stage research-informed theatre. It then moves on to a set of stories of how I wrote and work shopped the play, found a venue, put together an artistic team, created a budget, pursued funding, publicized the production, and assessed the quality of the project. In writing about research-informed theatre, I draw on the experiences of other writers and theatre artists as well as my own. Readers will find references to work by American, Australian, British, and other Canadian research-informed theatre artists. The last chapter of the book lists ten questions I have been asked about Harriet’s House, research-informed theatre and arts-based research and provides answers to these questions. This last chapter is followed by three appendices that include a copy of the performance script, biographies of the artistic team and a selected bibliography on research-informed theatre for readers who would like to read more.
It's great to be home in Toronto and to begin working on Ana's Shadow, Gailey Road's next project. Details about our public reading will be available soon!
All the best
Tara
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