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“the whole show exudes a carnivalesque feel…a laugh-out-loud comedy and the dark horrific nature brings it the forefront. I am positive you will laugh out loud one minute and the next moment cry.” - Anne Borowiecki, St Albert Gazette (Read the full review here)
Listed as a ‘Production to See" by Liz Nicholls - Edmonton Journal (See full list here)
“It’s bloody, fantastical, constantly pushing limits, and taking steps outside the norm….Clown, Circus, Pulcinellas, mask it [Crazyface] draws from all these absurd elements, and brings them together” - University of Alberta Express News
Crazyface by Clive Barker
Abbedam Productions at University of Alberta | Second Playing Space | 2010
A fool's epic revolving around the life of a young man as he stumbles through anachronistic Europe in pursuit of his true love and the gift of God: chocolate. A dark comedy involving clown, mask, and blood!
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
French Spy: Owen Bishop
Ella: Elana Bizovie
Pulcinella: Heather Brooke
The Priest: Liam Coady
Beggar: Nick Eaton
Bandit Captain: Noori Gill
Mother of the Briade: Caitlin Goruk
Italian Spy: Todd Housemann
Pulcinella: Georgia Irwin
The Bride: Mariann Kirby
Crazyface: Neil Kuefler
Father of the Bridge: Max LeBeuf
Mengo: Colin Matty
Sheba: Tori Morrison
British Spy: Ryan Kuefler
Irvette: Christina Patalas
The Angel: Laura Porter
Front of House: Annie Pumphrey
Lenny: Zvonimir Rac
Annie: Andrea Rankin
Beggar: Kristin Stec
The Clown: Mark Vetsch
Spanish Spy: Sam Volkov
Pulcinella: Marlee Yule
Ensemble: Multiple undergraduate students
Director: Andrew Ritchie
Assistant Director: Mark Vetsch
Stage Manager: Alex Patalas
Set Designer: Tennyson Menze
Costume Designers: Lindsay Phillips & Sarah Jackson
Lighting Designer: Holly Cinnamon
Mask Designer: Katrina Bray
Sound Designer: Graham Mothersill
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
University of Alberta | Second Playing Space | 2009
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play.
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Guildenstern: Lianna Makuch
Rosencrantz: Hannah Spear
Hamlet: Colin Matty
Director: Andrew Ritchie
Dog Opera by Constance Congdon
University of Alberta | Second Playing Space | 2009
Peter and Madeline have been friends since they were teenagers in Queens. They have Manhattan apartments and separate unsatisfactory sex lives. Though more loving than most couples and searching for partners, they are incompatible: he is gay. Maddi is overweight and drawn to men who treat her badly. He hides behind snappy retorts and skepticism. Maddie's alcoholic mother, Peter's father, lovers, pickups, and friends with AIDS move through their lives. A homeless teenager, a thief, and a poet who would rather be called a whore than a hustler because he doesn't try that hard, address the audience to throw everyone's problems into perspective.
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Madeline: Elena Eli Belyea
Peter: Kevin Bennet
Ensemble: Mark Vetsch
Director: Andrew Ritchie
Problem Child by George F. Walker
University of Alberta | Fine Arts Building | 2008
Problem Child tells the story of an ex-prostitute and drug-addict and her significant other, a TV-addicted ex-con, trying to deal with a by-the-book social worker in order to get her child back from the system. Violence, as with all the plays in the cycle, is a constant presence. The work contains perhaps the most hilarious surprise of the entire cycle.
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Denise: Elena Eli Belyea
Helen: Lianna Makuch
Phillie: Neil Kuefler
Director: Andrew Ritchie