Amor De Cosmos: A Delusional Musical (2023)
Produced by
Presented by
Book: Richard Kelly Kemick
Music: Lindsey Walker
Lyrics: Lindsey Walker
Director: Cody Porter
Venue
The Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre – The Al Green Theatre
Run
July 6th, 2023 – July 15th, 2023
Synopsis
A one-person musical about a man who was a thousand people:
journalist, politician; reformer, regressive; fearless, haunted; poetic, ballistic; visionary, hallucinatory; hero, villain…and villain again.
Written in iambic pentameter, this play depicts the infamous and astonishing life of British Columbia’s second premier and inaugural Member of Parliament. However, following his election to federal office, De Cosmos was declared legally insane and went on to haunt the taverns of Victoria before dying in bankrupt obscurity.
How did an iconoclastic reformer mutate into a conniving member of the political elite? Why do we so often become our own antagonists? (fringetoronto.com)
Cast
| Anton Gillis-Adelman | Amor De Cosmos / Charles De Cosmos / William Witham / William Valentine / Brigham Young / Senators 1,2,3 / David William Higgins / Governor Douglas / JS Helmcken / Bailiff / George Anothony Walkem / Newsboy / Parliamentarian |
| Lindsey Walker | Piano Player |
Creative Team
| Richard Kelly Kemick | Book |
| Lindsey Walker | Music |
| Lindsey Walker | Lyrics |
| Cody Porter | Director |
| Cody Porter | Set Designer |
| Lindsey Walker | Music Director |
| Lindsey Walker | Special Effects |
Production
| Richard Kelly Kemick | Manager |
| Lindsey Walker | Manager |
| Richard Kelly Kemick | Collaborator |
| Lindsey Walker | Collaborator |
