Out at School at Toronto Pride 2019
After a successful run at the L Fest in July 2018, Out at School returned to the stage for Toronto Pride 2019 as a multi-media verbatim theatre piece with 21 monologues, dialogues, accompanied 21 visual images by benjamin lee hicks and and three original songs by Kate Reid.
Written by Tara Goldstein, Jenny Salisbury and Pam Baer
Directed by Pam Baer and Jenny Salisbury
Music performed by Kate Reid
Visual Images by benjamin lee hicks
Produced by Gailey Road Productions
Written by Tara Goldstein, Jenny Salisbury and Pam Baer
Directed by Pam Baer and Jenny Salisbury
Music performed by Kate Reid
Visual Images by benjamin lee hicks
Produced by Gailey Road Productions
Castor and Sylvie at the L Fest in Llandudno, Wales, July 2018
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Paris, France. 1980. After the death of her life-long writing partner and friend Jean-Paul Sartre, feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (Castor), author of The Second Sex, decides to adopt her mid-life companion Sylvie Le Bon as her daughter. When Sylvie refuses to agree to the adoption, Beauvoir must persuade Sylvie to change her mind.
Informed by biographies of Beauvoir and interviews with Le Bon, the play imagines and interprets this one moment in the women’s 26-year relationship and stages other important moments in the family life they created together long before such a family was recognized legally anywhere in the world. Written by Tara Goldstein Directed by Jenny Salisbury Performed by Mary Ellen MacLean and Lori Nancy Kalamanski Music performed by Kate Reid Set and Costume Design by Sim Suzer Produced by Gailey Road Productions |
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