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CAST & CREW

James Burrows
director
James caught the theatre bug after his first communion when the minister didn't wipe the cup properly. He is also completing a questionable degree in Political Studies at Trent University.

Stacy Douglas
performer, playwright
Trained in the Werger/ Young School of artistic performance from 1995 to 2000, Stacy has also worked with Vanier Productions in various peanut-provoking performances, as well as in comedy troupes including Clang!Clang!Clang!Clang! and Ghost Robot.

Ray Godin
musician
Ray Godin is a twenty seven year old student at York University. He has been playing music for about twelve years. He to high school in Peterborough Ontario and has been living in Toronto for the past six years.

karol orzechowski
musician
karol orzechowski, one of the two members of hush money, is a musician and filmmaker currently living in Toronto. karol became a canadian citizen in 1987, and has been synchronized lock-step with the dominant culture ever since.

Kelly Thornton
stage manager
This Kelly Thornton grew up in Brampton, studied Canadian history at Carleton University in Ottawa and journalism at Centennial College in Toronto. She previously worked as a festival organizer for Rights on Reel: Toronto International Human Rights Film and Video Festival. This is her first crack at stage management.

Diana Yoo
performer
Diana Yoo is a visual artist currently working and living in Toronto.
Diana works in a wide variety of media, including photography, printmaking and sculpture. When she is not making visual art, she condescends to lend her time to the meagre projects of local thespians. This may or may not be one of those times.

Promotional Materials: Morgan Passi
Additional Photography: David Hugill
Set Design: James Burrows, Stacy Douglas, Kelly Thornton
Visual Media: James Burrows, Stacy Douglas, Ariel Sharatt
Costume Consultant: Alex Thomson
Lighting Design: James Burrows, Kelly Thornton

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Besieged by images and stories of the Canadian landscape, we are often left wondering what is left out. Feelings and images of home are often what we identify most with, as they encourage us to identify with the nation through their emboldened narratives of justice and peace. But how many of these feelings are founded upon stories of Canada that are misleading, if not entirely false? And what happens if these stories are threatened? The benevolent Canadian is a popular figure in our lives. This figure, however, often runs counter to our history as a violent colonial power, whose history is overrun with racism, and, whose house could only be set in order through the controlling and managing of 'savage' natives and non-Anglo immigrants. Imperialist roots in Canada run deep and are rarely discussed critically. This altered sense of history and place repositions our perceptions of justice, leading many of us to wonder: if racism and imperialism are removed from our stories, in order to promote the nation, then how do imperialism and racism manifest in the present? This show attempts to explore these tensions in our everyday lives in order to better understand how sanitized interpretations of history can change our understandings of justice, place, and self.

James Burrows

MUCHOS MUCHOS GRACIAS

Theatre Trent, Sheila and Wayne Douglas, Another Story Bookshop, The Community Bicycle Network, Richard Newman and the Imperial Pub, Mike Briggs, Peter Stevens, Katie Crown, Ryan V. Hays, James Hartnett, Kathleen Phillips, Kay Pettigrew, Rob Levine, Corrie Sakaluk and the Toronto Women's Bookstore, S.K. Hussan and No One is Illegal, Catherine and Ian Hugill, Gullons Printing, Heather and Richard Davies, Joyce and George Burrows, Cheryl Koller and Lolita.