Blindsided (2014)
Produced by
Presented by
The SummerWorks Performance Festival
Playwright: Sabrina Reeves
Director: Matt Holland
Venue
Pia Bouman: Scotiabank Studio Theatre
Run
August 7th, 2014 – August 17th, 2014
Synopsis
Blindsided is a one-person show married to a film installation that reveals an extreme disproportion between an enormity of content and a minuscule amount of time, proposing that a single moment of trauma can create an instantaneous opening in the psyche for the recollection of a past trauma and in so doing fracture the self into distinct parts.
A woman is biking to work when she is hit by a car. The impact that devastates her body also fractures her mind. As her body hits the pavement, her mind is sent reeling back in time to the summer of her tenth year. Large-scale film projections are layered with live performance to create a double-exposure where the past is immediate, and the present is fast dissolving. (summerworks.ca)
Cast
| Sabrina Reeves | Performer |
| Coco Usher | Young Haley (film / voiceover) |
| Jake O’Connor-Cassar | Young Declan (film) |
| Oliver Woodall | Sam (film / voiceover) |
| Sabrina Reeves | Grammy (film) |
| Jillian Rebekah Cameron | German Film Star (film) |
| Jessica Hill | Girl #1 (film) |
| Kayleigh Choiniere | Girl #2 (film) |
| Arielle Palik | Girl #3 (film) |
| Ezra Fama de Smit | Guy #1 (film) |
| Cedrick Roy | Guy #2 (film) |
| Lucie Vigneault | Paramedic #1 (film) |
| Paskal Perrault | Paramedic #2 (film) |
| Matt Holland | WAAF Announcer (voiceover) |
| Sarah Bradeen | Anne Sheffield / Young Declan (voiceover) |
| Margaret Mcbrearty | Paramedic #1 (voiceover) |
| Jacques Poulin-Denis | Paramedic #2 (voiceover) |
Creative Team
| Sabrina Reeves | Playwright |
| Matt Holland | Director |
| Paolo Santos | Cinematography / Editing |
| Lucie Bélanger | Video Installation |
| Jacques Poulin-Denis | Sound Designer |
| Marilène Bastian | Costume Designer |
| Marilène Bastian | Set Designer |
| Jane Heller | Additional Cinematography |
| David Smith | Additional Cinematography |
| Carol Prieur | Movement Coach |
| Tony Chong | Movement Coach |
| Anana Rydvald | Character Coaching |
Music
| Fabienne Lucet | Pianist |
Production
| Lisa Humber | Stage Manager |
| Cecilia Lawe | Production Assistant |
| Tina Hilgers | German Translation |
Staff
| Joseph Patrick | Venue Technician |
| Joseph Patrick | Festival Lighting Designer |
| Andrew Brodkin | Venue Technician |
