12.04.2005
PRESS RELEASE: DARK AND STORMY NIGHTS
DARK AND STORMY NIGHTS
An evening of one-acts exploring addiction and arch rivals, produced by screaming flea theatre
For Immediate Release
Media Contact:
Heather Lindsay
778-881-7152
screamflea@yahoo.ca
An evening of one-acts exploring addiction and arch rivals, produced by screaming flea theatre
For Immediate Release
Media Contact:
Heather Lindsay
778-881-7152
screamflea@yahoo.ca
Crack
Written and Performed by Rob Baker
Dramaturged and Directed by Andrea Donaldson
It's a long walk (16 blocks each way, I've calculated.) This is the third time you and I have made this trip tonight (96 blocks in all.) Probably the fortieth time in the last two and a half months (1280 blocks!) No one can tell me the addict doesn't get his exercise.
Rumble
Written and Performed by Paulo Ribeiro
It's a long walk (16 blocks each way, I've calculated.) This is the third time you and I have made this trip tonight (96 blocks in all.) Probably the fortieth time in the last two and a half months (1280 blocks!) No one can tell me the addict doesn't get his exercise.
Rumble
Written and Performed by Paulo Ribeiro
Dramaturged and Directed by Heather Lindsay & Billy Marchenski
They made us play inside because it was, snowing like crazy outside and we were like, wimpy. But the real reason is when anyone did play outside, they came back bleeding from gravel and ice. Despite whatever words were said, the reason why was clear: It’s a war out there and we’re not ready.
Saturday December 17 Sunday December 18 @ 8pm
The Office – 68 Water Street, Gastown, Vancouver (beside Sonar)
Pay What You Can
Tickets and information: 604.258-0265, screamflea@yahoo.ca or
www.screamingflea.blogspot.com
Pay What You Can
Tickets and information: 604.258-0265, screamflea@yahoo.ca or
www.screamingflea.blogspot.com
PRESS
- for Crack -
The 27th Rhubarb! fest is now history, though some of those early shoots may grow again…Certainly, some of the productions should get more stage life…Standouts that week were Rob Baker 's Crack , directed by Andrea Donaldson , which took us deeply, upsettingly into the life and head of a crack addict. JON KAPLAN, NOW MAGAZINE FEB 2005
- for screaming flea -
Reason can never answer the deepest questions of the spirit. Art doesn't always answer them either, but it can pose them in a compelling way- as it does here.
COLIN THOMAS, THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT AUG 2005
BIOS for DARK AND STORMY NIGHTS
ROB BAKER
Rob is an actor, improviser, writer, dramaturge and educator originally from East Vancouver. He is currently a member of Bad Dog Theatre’s main-stage cast and part of the Neutrino Video Project Toronto. Also, he is one half of the comedic duo HATZENBAKER. Recent theatre highlights include Crack as part of the Rhubarb! Festival and The Possibilities as part of Summerworks.
ANDREA DONALDSON
Andrea is a Dora award-winning performer, a director, dramaturge and theatre creator. Presently based in Toronto, she is collaborating on Housebound, working toward completing her play Garden developed last year as part of Buddies’ Antechamber Playwrights’ Unit and beginning a mentorship in set design under Shawn Kerwin and David Skelton. She has recently returned from New York where she trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI. With her Toronto/Vancouver-based company seventeenth floor, Andrea has created/performed in projects that have toured across Canada and abroad. This summer she will return for her third season as a guest artist at the Blyth Festival, this year as director of the Young Company’s collective creation.
HEATHER LINDSAY
Heather is an artist, producer and accountant who grew up in Kelowna. As a co-artistic director of screaming flea, recent credits include Carla in Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists and designing Conversation at Night with a Despised Character. Other performance highlights include Suzy, a member of the good lookin’ roller-skating team in Radix Theatre’s Half a Tank and creating/performing, touring and being ‘sexy’ with her Vancouver/Toronto based company seventeenth floor, across Canada and New Zealand. This spring, Heather can’t wait to be collaborating with the fleas as a part of their See Seven debut in Tying the Knot, and helping to make Theatre Under the Gun happen again…
BILLY MARCHENSKI
Last seen in the Tomorrow Collective's Brief Encounters at the Office. Billy is developing newworks with dj Darren Woodhead of Saunasessions, and with Screaming Flea for their See Seven debut, Tying The Knot. Recent highlights include playing Junior's Father in Pi Theatre's Carnage, Jaroslaw in Michael Springate's Feature Film Katya, and David Lenowski in the Flea's latest byte, Fragments Of A Farewell Letter Read By Geologists. Billy would like to thank the fleas, Andrea and Rob for their generosity and skill.
PAULO RIBEIRO
Paulo is an actor, writer, dramaturg and director who grew up in East Vancouver. He co-founded screaming flea while attending SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Favourite past roles include Victor in thir$ty (Headlines), Orson Welles in War of The Worlds (Rumble), for which he earned a Jessie Nomination, Richard in The Soldier Dreams (Shifting Point) and Cassilly in Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read By Geologists. (screaming flea). TV credits including DaVinci’s Inquest, Touching Evil, and Tru Calling. Next up: Tying The Knot, a new comedy about restrainers of all kinds.
Rob is an actor, improviser, writer, dramaturge and educator originally from East Vancouver. He is currently a member of Bad Dog Theatre’s main-stage cast and part of the Neutrino Video Project Toronto. Also, he is one half of the comedic duo HATZENBAKER. Recent theatre highlights include Crack as part of the Rhubarb! Festival and The Possibilities as part of Summerworks.
ANDREA DONALDSON
Andrea is a Dora award-winning performer, a director, dramaturge and theatre creator. Presently based in Toronto, she is collaborating on Housebound, working toward completing her play Garden developed last year as part of Buddies’ Antechamber Playwrights’ Unit and beginning a mentorship in set design under Shawn Kerwin and David Skelton. She has recently returned from New York where she trained with Anne Bogart’s SITI. With her Toronto/Vancouver-based company seventeenth floor, Andrea has created/performed in projects that have toured across Canada and abroad. This summer she will return for her third season as a guest artist at the Blyth Festival, this year as director of the Young Company’s collective creation.
HEATHER LINDSAY
Heather is an artist, producer and accountant who grew up in Kelowna. As a co-artistic director of screaming flea, recent credits include Carla in Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists and designing Conversation at Night with a Despised Character. Other performance highlights include Suzy, a member of the good lookin’ roller-skating team in Radix Theatre’s Half a Tank and creating/performing, touring and being ‘sexy’ with her Vancouver/Toronto based company seventeenth floor, across Canada and New Zealand. This spring, Heather can’t wait to be collaborating with the fleas as a part of their See Seven debut in Tying the Knot, and helping to make Theatre Under the Gun happen again…
BILLY MARCHENSKI
Last seen in the Tomorrow Collective's Brief Encounters at the Office. Billy is developing newworks with dj Darren Woodhead of Saunasessions, and with Screaming Flea for their See Seven debut, Tying The Knot. Recent highlights include playing Junior's Father in Pi Theatre's Carnage, Jaroslaw in Michael Springate's Feature Film Katya, and David Lenowski in the Flea's latest byte, Fragments Of A Farewell Letter Read By Geologists. Billy would like to thank the fleas, Andrea and Rob for their generosity and skill.
PAULO RIBEIRO
Paulo is an actor, writer, dramaturg and director who grew up in East Vancouver. He co-founded screaming flea while attending SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Favourite past roles include Victor in thir$ty (Headlines), Orson Welles in War of The Worlds (Rumble), for which he earned a Jessie Nomination, Richard in The Soldier Dreams (Shifting Point) and Cassilly in Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read By Geologists. (screaming flea). TV credits including DaVinci’s Inquest, Touching Evil, and Tru Calling. Next up: Tying The Knot, a new comedy about restrainers of all kinds.
SEE SEVEN: TYING THE KNOT
Screaming Flea presents Tying the Knot
Apr 25-29, 2006
Waterfront Theatre 1412 Cartwright Street, Granville Island Vancouver 604.685.1731
Sat matinee, 2PM 2-for-1 Wed
tickets: $18/15
Festival Box Office: 604.257.0366
written and performed by Screaming Flea
Heather Lindsay, Billy Marchenski, Paulo Ribeiro, Paul Ternes, Derek Whidden
Tying the Knot is a broad comedy that satirizes modern media practices, with its particular focus on two families living in a culture of fear, and two children’s attempts to exorcise the effects of their smothering social conditioning. Knot uses human marionettes, drag elements and various types of restrainers to further illustrate the absurd conditions under which its four characters live.
Devised to satisfy the appetites of a group of writers, actors and directors, the Flea has since explored different models of theatre creation in an attempt to challenge the ensemble and their notion of practice. Our projects, like our name, begin with small ideas proposed from a members singular obsession: a play, literary text, new piece of writing, political or scientific thought, an infamous character. The crucible of that small thing is whether it can become a group obsession, whether it will infest our imaginations, scream at us.
Apr 25-29, 2006
Waterfront Theatre 1412 Cartwright Street, Granville Island Vancouver 604.685.1731
Sat matinee, 2PM 2-for-1 Wed
tickets: $18/15
Festival Box Office: 604.257.0366
written and performed by Screaming Flea
Heather Lindsay, Billy Marchenski, Paulo Ribeiro, Paul Ternes, Derek Whidden
Tying the Knot is a broad comedy that satirizes modern media practices, with its particular focus on two families living in a culture of fear, and two children’s attempts to exorcise the effects of their smothering social conditioning. Knot uses human marionettes, drag elements and various types of restrainers to further illustrate the absurd conditions under which its four characters live.
Devised to satisfy the appetites of a group of writers, actors and directors, the Flea has since explored different models of theatre creation in an attempt to challenge the ensemble and their notion of practice. Our projects, like our name, begin with small ideas proposed from a members singular obsession: a play, literary text, new piece of writing, political or scientific thought, an infamous character. The crucible of that small thing is whether it can become a group obsession, whether it will infest our imaginations, scream at us.
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