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A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

PLAYWRIGHT’S NOTES FROM YVETTE NOLAN

By Yvette Nolan Directed by Nina Lee Aquino

The CompanySeamus Umed AminElena Diana BelshawBern Allegra FultonDramaturge Ric KnowlesMovement Director Clare Preuss Set Designer Camellia KooCostume Designer Joanna YuLighting Designer Michelle RamsaySound Designer & Composer Romeo CandidoAssociate Sound Designer Alex PunzalanFight Director Casey HudeckiStage Manager AJ LaflammeApprentice Stage Manager Kelsey RutledgeApprentice Production Manager Brittany RyanHead of Paints & Properties Anna TreuschPainter Richard MongiatHead of Wardrobe Laura GardnerScenic Stitchers Sara Brzozowski, Laura DelchiaroCrew David DeGrow, Josh Hoodless, Travis Lahay, Kai Masaoka, Joey Morin, Jordan Routliff

Development History

The Unplugging premiered at the Arts Club Theatre (Artistic Director Bill Millerd) on Revue Stage in Vancouver, Canada, on December 17, 2012, under the direction of Lois Anderson. An excerpt of an earlier version titled (Two Old Women) was read at Native Earth Performing Arts’ Weesageechak Begins to Dance XXII on January 28, 2010 under the direction of Reinholz.

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Running time is approx. 90 minutes with no intermission.

Taking of photographs or making any mechanical recording is prohibited during the production.

Please turn off cellular phones and electronic devices.

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The second production of a play is a rare and precious thing in this country. Many scripts receive a premiere production and then are abandoned, no longer shiny and new, somehow less attractive because they have been around, discarded for this year’s model…

And yet, for me, the first production of a play is part of the development process, and it is the second production where we get to see the play that exists. New actors, a fresh new vision, a creative team who are free to create a whole new world… all these are gifts of the second production. For this, and for so much more, I am grateful to Nina and Factory Theatre. That Native Earth is partnering with Factory makes this production sweeter still.

The world is not so very different from when the Arts Club first produced The Unplugging in the fall of 2012. The things that scared me then, that drove me to write the play in the first place – uncontrolled consumption, the role of women in the world, an ever-increasing dependence on technology – still scare me, indeed seem to be ramping up. And yet, things have changed, too, haven’t they? Idle No More, and an apparent swelling of people who want to work together to protect the earth, the water, the air. Misogyny is still rampant, but perhaps becoming more visible, between #yesallwomen and the naming of rape culture. We are still divided by hatred and fear, but more people seem to moved to stand up for each other – “je suis Charlie” and “I can’t breathe” and “hands up don’t shoot”.

What do all these things have to do with a wee play about two older women after an apocalypse? Everything, everything. Everything is connected, we are all connected. How we go forward together in a good way depends on it.

In spirit – Yvette

The Unplugging speaks of individuals struggling to create community after the world has in effect been wiped clean. Each individual brings valuable resources to the table and it is in the collection of our individual experience and teachings that we re-create a collaborative community. That’s why it is so fitting for Native Earth and Factory to be partnering on this project. Factory’s mandate of intercultural theatre and Native Earth’s mandate to nurture, support and produce the Indigenous voice provide the lens with which we peer into Yvette’s unplugged world - a world where traditional knowledge and contemporary culture must find a way to co-exist. Through this partnership we bring multiple perspectives and experiences which guide us and unveil the deeper value of this play, to help us break through the crust of the snow and dig deeper... so that all of us can learn and understand the Indigenous spirit that’s embedded within Yvette’s words. This is really the key; this is really what’s important and why this partnership needed to happen.

E’kosi - Nina & Ryan

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Allegra Fulton

Kelsey Rutledge Joanna Yu

Umed Amin

Camellia KooCasey Hudecki AJ Laflamme

Diana Belshaw

Michelle Ramsay

Romeo Candido

Nina Lee Aquino Alex Punzalan Clare PreussYvette Nolan

T H E C O M PA N Y

Ric Knowles

B I O G R A P H I E S

UMED AMIN, Seamus

For Factory: Debut

Other Recent Theatre Credits: Charles in A Party To Murder (University Players); Tuzenbach in Three Sisters (University Players)

Umed graduated from theatre school last year after attending the University of Windsor Acting program. He has since been pursuing his dream of being a working actor and hopes to transition into Film/Television as well. He couldn’t be happier to share his work with you tonight.

DIANA BELSHAW, Elena

For Factory: ‘D’ Street and Broadway; De Beaux Gestes et Beautiful Deeds (with Théâtre du P’tit Bonheur)

Other Theatre Credits: I haven’t been on stage for fifteen years but last did That Summer (Blyth Festival); King Lear (2 productions for Necessary Angel); Albertine in Five Times (Tarragon) as well as over twenty years of acting at theatres across Canada. Upcoming/ Other: After this I will return to my day job, teaching acting at Humber College’s Theatre Performance Program, and continuing to advocate for young artists whose voices have yet to be heard.

ROMEO CANDIDO, Sound Designer & Composer

For Factory: Every Letter Counts

Other Recent Theatre Credits: Prison Dancer : The Musical (New York Musical Festival, SummerWorks), People Power (Carlos Bulosan), Future Folk (Sulong Theatre), Brown Balls, Banana Boys, Lady In The Red Dress (fu-GEN Theatre). Upcoming/ Other/Film & Television Credits: TAWA (Documentary), DATU (First EP release)

An Unplugged Fact: For The Unplugging, we are hoping to create a soundscape that would help place our protagonists in their situational world while amplifying their internal one. As this is my 7th collaboration with Nina, our approach has always been to treat sound and music in an impressionistic way as opposed to just putting in sound cues based in reality. Sources of inspiration include First Nations and other tribal music, the different stages of the moon and the hushing of a baby...

ALLEGRA FULTON, Bern

For Factory: Debut

Other recent Theatre Credits: The Carousel (Nightwood Theatre); The List (Nightwood Theatre); Tout Comme Elle (Luminato/Necessary Angel); Night Of The Iguana & The Gentleman Caller (Hart House Theatre); King Lear (Antaeus Classical Rep/L.A.); The Taming Of The Shrew (A Noise Within, L.A.); Geometry In Venice (Crow’s Theatre/Segal Centre); Scorched (Tarragon Theatre). Upcoming: Comedy Of Errors & Julius Caesar (Dream in High Park); Medea (a new adaptation by Susanna Fournier) and directing the Catalan premiere of La Llista in the EU. Recent Film & TV credits: Cronenberg’s Map To The Stars; Fargo; Degrassi: the Next Generation; Against The Wall; King.

An Unplugged Fact: Yvette Nolan lives in the same apartment I lived in when I was 19.

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CASEY HUDECKI, Fight DirectorRecent Theatre (Fight Direction) Credits: The Wanderers (Cahoots Theatre); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Annex Theatre); Stockholm (Nightwood Theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (Randolph Academy); Assistant Fight Director (Stratford Theatre Festival, 2009-2011) Film & Television Credits: Ink (CFC); A Christmas Horror Story (Copperheart); Hamlet, Macbeth (Shakespeare App); Other: Stunt Performer and Fight Coordinator, Lost Girl; Recent Acting Credits: Vita (CFC); Vienna in Sudden Master; Saving Hope.

An Unplugged Fact: Originally the script referenced a rifle, but the cast is using a double barrelled shotgun that has been modified for stage.

RIC KNOWLES, DramaturgeFor Factory: Debut

Other Recent Theatre Credits: The Wanderers, Sister Mary’s a Dyke!?, A Taste of Empire (Cahoots); Hallaj (Modern Times); Body 13 (MT Space/Passe Muraille); In the Shadow of Elephants, People Power (Carlos Bulosan); Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way (Chocolate Woman Collective); Red Snow (Red Snow Collective/Aluna) Upcoming/Ongoing: Declaration at Ontario Scene (Article 11/NAC); Side Show Freaks and Circus Injuns (Chocolate Woman Collective); Death of the King (Modern Times); The 20th Century, Occupy Spring (Modern Times/MT Space)

An Unplugged Fact: When I first read The Unplugging it was called Two Old Women.

CAMELLIA KOO, Set DesignerFor Factory: The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble (co-pro with Obsidian).

Other recent theatre: collaborations with The Belfry Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Cahoots Theatre Projects, fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Smash, The Second City, The Shaw Festival, Volcano, Young People’s Theatre, Minnesota Opera, Edmonton Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, Canadian Opera Company, Boston Lyric Opera, and Against the Grain. Upcoming: The Lady From the Sea (Shaw Festival), Oedipus Rex (Stratford Festival) Tom at the Farm (Buddies)

An Unplugged Fact: The set design was inspired by the idea of obliterating the architecture of the theatre by filling it with white noise.

AJ LAFLAMME, Stage ManagerFor Factory: Bingo!

Recent theatre credits: Waiting Room (Tarragon Theatre); London Road, The Arsonists, Red, Another Africa (Canadian Stage); A Beautiful View, The Africa Trilogy (Volcano Theatre); Kim’s Convenience, Spoon River, La Ronde, True West (Soulpepper); Tainted (Moyo Theatre); Tosca, La Traviata, Die Zauberflöte, Le Tragedie de Carmen (Highlands Opera Studio); Cabaret, A Chorus Line (Rose Theatre); Everything Must Go (Andrea Martin); Love, Loss, and What I Wore (M. Rubinoff Productions); Oklahoma! (Georgetown Globe). AJ is a graduate of Sheridan College and the University of Toronto. Upcoming: The Pirates of Penzance (Thousand Islands Playhouse)

An Unplugged Fact: Sometimes as a stage manager, phrases like “Let’s go from ‘too much Pooh’...” come out of your mouth without thinking about how they actually sound.

NINA LEE AQUINO, DirectorFor Factory: Debut

Other Recent Theatre Credits: Nina co-wrote Miss Orient(ed) (World Premiere, Carlos Bulosan Theatre 2003), and has written her second play, Every Letter Counts (World Premiere, Factory Theatre 2013). Other credits include awards for directing: the Ken McDougall Award 2004, the Canada Council John Hirsch Prize 2008, two Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Direction (Sultans of the Street, Young People’s Theatre; paper SERIES, Cahoots Theatre Company); and 4 consecutive Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations. Nina is also the editor of Canada’s first Asian-Canadian 2-volume drama anthology love + relasianships (Playwrights Canada Press) and the co-editor of the award winning New Essays on Canadian Theatre Volume One: Asian Canadian Theatre (Playwrights Canada Press).

An Unplugged Fact: Nina traditionally uses cinema as an important point of inspiration for all her productions. For The Unplugging, the movie that greatly influenced her was Mad Max -- both the Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy version. And, yes, ever since the production started, every so often one can hear Nina singing “We Don’t Need Another Hero” throughout the Factory building.

YVETTE NOLAN, PlaywrightFor Factory: Debut

Other Recent Theatre Credits: Prophecy (Canada 300), Salt Baby (as director; Globe Theatre), Alaska (Hardly Art), The Birds (University of Regina), Savage (Native Earth). Upcoming/ Other/Film & Television Credits: Michael Greyeyes’ Nôhkom (Signal Theatre/Banff Playwrights Colony), Short Cuts 10 minute play festival (Hardly Art), The Study on Manitoulin Island (National Arts Centre), Medicine Shows (published by Playwrights Canada Press, spring 2015)

An Unplugged Fact: The Unplugging was originally called Two Old Women, after the Athabaskan story retold by Velma Wallis

ALEX PUNZALAN, Associate Sound DesignerFor Factory: Every Letter Counts

Other Recent Theatre Credits: Sex Tape Project in Philadelphia (fu-GEN Theatre) Upcoming: DATU (Independent Album Release) Film & Television Credits: Continuum on Showcase (Music by Times Neue Roman), Preggoland (Music by Times Neue Roman)

CLARE PREUSS, Movement DirectorFor Factory: Oil and Water (Co-Production with Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland)

Other Recent Theatre Credits: The Tempest (Driftwood), A Beautiful View (Volcano, BeMe), Salome’s Clothes (SummerWorks), Ghost Dance (Wrecking Ball: Idle No More), Chile Con Carne (Alameda), Northern Lights, Eastern Fire (Canadian Sinfonietta), Cafe Daughter (Gwaandak, Native Earth Performing Arts), affliction (Cahoots, Rhubarb), Cake (New Harlem Productions, Bayimba International Festival). Clare led Live Art Lab with FRICTION GROUP in Zurich last August. Upcoming: Tuesdays & Sundays (Sundown) Film & Television Credits: Mean Girls (Paramount), The Prince and Me (Paramount), Urban Legend: Final Cut (Phoenix)

An Unplugged Fact: Yvette wrote four scenes as movement sequences.

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MICHELLE RAMSAY, Lighting DesignerFor Factory: The Art of Building a Bunker (Factory Theatre/Quiptake)

Other Recent Theatre Credits: Cannibal the Musical (Starvox); Arcadia (Mirvish Productions/Shaw Festival); Forgiveness (Modern Times); Sultans of the Street (Young People’s Theatre); The Wanderers (Cahoots Theatre Company); The Stronger Variations (Theatre Rusticle). She has received five Dora Awards, a SATAward and the 2008 Pauline McGibbon award.

An Unplugged Fact: Part of the lighting design was inspired by time lapse photography of the sun rising and setting, to help show time passage during the four movement scenes.

KELSEY RUTLEDGE, Apprentice Stage ManagerFor Factory: Debut

Other Recent Theatre Credits: Miracle on 34th Street (Sudbury Theatre Centre); Tempest & Two Gentlemen of Verona (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival); Who’s Your Daddy (Crows Theatre, East End Performance Crawl); The Real McCoy (4th Line Theatre); The Fight (Humber Theatre)

JOANNA YU, Costume DesignerFor Factory: Iceland

Other Recent Theatre Credits: Intimate Apparel (The Grand), John & Waleed (Cahoots), A Christmas Story (Set, Neptune Theatre), St. Anne’s Reel (Blyth Festival), Free Outgoing (Costumes, Nightwood), The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom Connors (Costume, Harbourfront Theatre). Film & Television Credits: Couleurs Locales (Set, UNIS/Machine Gum), Fair Play - 3D installation (Costume, Surrey Art Gallery/Asli Films), S is for Bird (Production Design, Spontaneously Combusted Films), Jesse (BravoFACT), A Kindness (BravoFACT) Other: Guest artist with Humber College, Sheridan College, Ryerson University, Randolf School for Performing Arts. Upcoming: Set & Costume design Morro & Jasp: 9-5 (Factory).

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