DEVELOPMENT PROJECT FOR 2012-2013 SEASON
MAJOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECT FOR 2012-2013 SEASON
STAGED READING OF RESEARCH BASED PLAY
DECEMBER, 17, 2013
Origins Theatre Projects is pleased to present the first staged
reading presentation of our artistic director’s new play with the working
title, Monty and John: A
Freudian Palimpsest.
Our company was offered a super theatre for December 17th to
present a staged reading of the work-in-progress. It’s an excellent opportunity
to have this space and invite an audience’s response to the early-development
of the play.
Mr. MacKenzie's play is derived from research he has done on the
creative dynamics represented within the making of the 1962 John Huston film, Freud.
Fraught with inter-personal tensions, the film features the 1950s iconic
male actor, Montgomery Clift in the title role. Huston, the big-game hunting,
master filmmaker and Clift, the sensitive, proto-punk bisexual, are a study in
contrasting male identities. Joined with a cast of characters including,
Sigmund Freud, and Jean Paul Sartre, who wrote the original screenplay rejected
for being five hours too long, the tensions provide an ideal ground to study masculinity
and the changing identities of authorship within the artistic process. The playwright has
used auto/biographical and archival source material and “creative verbatim”
techniques to present a multi-layered, palimpsest exploration.
The play is both a professional presentation with Origins Theatre Projects, and is also
part of a larger research project into playwriting and education. Your
attendance at the staged reading would be very much appreciated and it is
expected to be an enjoyable event. Light
refreshments will be served. This is an ambitious large cast project for our company and we appreciate your support.
Directed by Professor
Stephen Heatley, the reading features a cast of excellent professional actors
from Vancouver’s theatre scene: Stephen Aberle; Scott Button; Evan Frayne; Claire
Hasselgrave; David Mann; and Chris Robson.
Admission by donation, December
17th, 7:30 pm
Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery
Street
The Centre is at Jericho Beach, near the Hostels and just
before the sailing club, plenty of free parking, and on direct bus routes.
For further information, originstheatreproejcts.ca, email
origins@vcn.bc.ca
Thank-you to the UBC Faculty of Education, and the Language
and Literacy Department for their support.
We hope to see you at the theatre.
