Century Song (2017)

Produced by

Moveable Beast Collective and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd and Volcano Theatre

Presented by

Nightwood Theatre

Co-Creators: Neema Bickersteth and Kate Alton and Ross Manson
Director: Ross Manson

Venue

Streetcar Crowsnest – The Guloien Theatre

Run

April 18th, 2017 – April 29th, 2017

Synopsis

Century Song is a live performance hybrid. Inspired in part by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens, Bickersteth seamlessly melds classical song and movement to inhabit a century of women whose identities are contained within a single performer. This exquisitely unique show features music by some of the past 100 years’ most adventurous composers, as well as projections by Germany’s fettFilm – extraordinary visuals that bring alive major art movements of the 20th century. Both whimsical and riveting, Century Song is a wordless chronicle of the age, built from art. (nightwoodtheatre.net)

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Cast

Neema Bickersteth

Soprano

Creative Team

Neema Bickersteth	Co-Creator
Kate Alton	Co-Creator
Ross Manson	Co-Creator
Ross Manson	Director
Kate Alton	Choreographer
Georges Aperghis	Composer
John Cage	Composer
Reza Jacobs	Composer
Olivier Messiaen	Composer
Gregory Oh	Composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff	Composer
Debashis Sinha	Composer
Torge Møller	Projection Designer
Momme Hinrichs	Projection Designer
Cameron Davis	Associate Projection Designer
Kaitlin Hickey	Associate Projection Designer
Jeremy Mimnagh	Associate Projection Designer
Rebecca Picherack	Lighting Designer
Camellia Koo	Set Designer
Charlotte Dean	Costume Designer
Laura Gardner	Assistant Costume Designer
Avril Stevenson	Assistant Costume Designer
Michela Sisti	Assistant Director

Music

Gregory Oh	Piano
Ben Grossman	Percussion
Ben Grossman	Computer

Production

Kaitlin Hickey	Production Manager
Patrick Lavender	Assistant Production Manager
Emilie Aubin	Stage Manager
John Lauener	Production Photographer
Michele Charlton	Intern

Staff

Christina Cicko

Production Coordinator

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