Bliss (2012)
Produced by
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Candles Are For Burning Theatre & Music
Playwright: Oliver Choinière
Translator: Caryl Churchill
Director: Steven McCarthy
Venue
The Alexander Street Chamber Theatre
Run
March 27th, 2012 – April 8th, 2012
Synopsis
In this nightmarish play, three Walmart employees retell a pair of tales ripped from the tabloids. In one, Celine Dion temporarily retires from singing in Las Vegas; in the other, a Celine fan named Isabelle is tortured horribly by her own family. Caro, an outcast cashier who believes her body is turning inside out, conducts her colleagues’ recital from a microphone as gradually the two stories bleed together like the pages of a newspaper left out in the rain. A disturbing tale about the powerless and the power of love that probes our society’s interconnected obsessions with gruesome crimes and celebrity gossip. (globeandmail.com)
Cast
| Delphine Bienvenu | Oracle |
| Jean Robert Bourdage | Manager |
| Trent Pardy | Display Assistant |
| France Rolland | Cosmetic Salesperson |
Creative Team
| Oliver Choinière | Playwright |
| Caryl Churchill | Translator |
| Steven McCarthy | Director |
| James Lavoie | Set Designer |
| James Lavoie | Costume Designer |
| Andrea Lundy | Lighting Designer |
| Sarah Yaffe | Lighting Designer |
| Duncan Morgan | Sound Specialist |
Production
| Kaileigh Krysztofiak | Technical Director |
| Sarah Yaffe | Production Manager |
| Rich Dawson | Carpenter |
| Jesse Lund | Carpenter |
| Nadia Lombardo | Scenic Painter |
| Jeremy Gordaneer | Scenic Painter |
| Josiane Saucier | Welding |
| Jonathan Kitchen | Graphic Designer |
| Tanja-Tiziana | Photography |
Staff
| Charissa Wilcox | Head of Production |
| Adrien Whan | Technical Director |
| Katherine Smith | Technician |
