Seams: A Workshop Production

 

Projects Under 30 Category

Paprika Festival

A memory play set in Moscow 1939, Seams follows the lives of five seamstresses and one seamster working in a theatre during the lead-up to the Second World War.. Some of these memories belong to an older Russian woman who now lives in Canada. She wants to tell us of her happy summers, but all she can recall is how it snowed.

 

The fall of 1939 unfolds before us in a series of intertwining love and hate stories, as the seamstresses and seamster struggle to find their ways under the Stalinist regime, forever playing the treacherous game of suspicions and betrayal. Having watched her fill of broadcasts from Putin’s Russia, the old woman’s trepidation makes us question whether anything has changed since then.

CREATORS

 

Directed by Mikaela Davies*

Written by Polly Phokeev

Featuring: Nancy Palk*, Kimberly-Sue Murray, Jesse LaVercombe, Caitlin Robson, Elizabeth Stuart-Morris, Sochi Fried*, Ewa Wolniczek
Understudy for Ms. Palk: Alfija Gilmizjanova (on May 8th)

Mentored by Simon Bloom

Stage Manager: Steve Vargo

Design Consultant: Shannon Lea Doyle

Dramaturg: Simone Brodie

Producer: Elizabeth Stuart-Morris

Sound Designer: Nick Potter

*appears with the permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association

 

Projects 30 & Under is an emerging artist platform for new work in development. Projects can be explorations in a variety of forms and presented as performances or as staged readings. This program is for emerging artists who have received professional training but need space and time to workshop their writing and/or to work with a company of peers. In every case we connect each project to senior artists, forming lasting partnerships and supporting healthy project growth. This is a platform for individuals and collectives needing time and space to get their work on its feet.