Elle (2016)
Produced by
Author: Robert Glover
Adapter: Severn Thompson
Director: Christine Brubaker
Venue
Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace
Previews
January 14th - 17th, 2016
Run
January 14th, 2016 – January 31st, 2016
Synopsis
Based on a true story from the life of Marguerite de Roberval, Elle chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman marooned on the desolate Isle of Demons in 1542 at the time of France’s ill-fated third attempt to colonize Canada.
The Sieur de Roberval abandons his unruly young niece, her lover, and her nurse on the Isle of Demons. and with a world of self-preserving belligerence, the voluble heroine of Elle does more than survive. Elle brilliantly reinvents the beginnings of this country’s history: what Canada meant to the early European adventurers, what these Europeans meant to Canada’s original inhabitants. While Marguerite de Robervals experience of Canada in 1592 is not as well known as Jacques Cartier’s, her open-minded engagement with that environment and its people was ahead of its time, and is certainly more relevant and inspiring for us today than Cartier’s attempt to colonize and conquer. (artsboxoffice.ca)
Cast
| Severn Thompson | Elle |
| Jonathan Fisher | Itslk |
Creative Team
| Robert Glover | Author |
| Severn Thompson | Adapter |
| Christine Brubaker | Director |
| Christine Brubaker | Dramaturge |
| Andy McKim | Dramaturge |
| Jennifer Goodman | Production Designer |
| Lyon Smith | Sound Designer |
| Lyon Smith | Music |
| Viv Moore | Movement |
Music
| Jonathan Fisher | Musician |
Production
| Laura Baxter | Stage Manager |
| Rebecca Vandevelde | Associate Production Manager |
| Rebecca Hooton | Crew |
| Rebecca Vandevelde | Crew |
| David DeGrow | Crew |
| Sarah “Pip” Bradford | Crew |
| David Fisher | Crew |
| Christopher Ross | Crew |
| Kody Lesouder | Crew |
| Verne Good | Crew |
| Kai Masaoka | Crew |
| Colin Harris | Crew |
| Will Hofstetter | Set Builder |
| Jenny Salisbury | Set Builder |
| Susanna Feng | Set Builder |
| Spencer Evoy | Set Builder |
| Echo Zhou 周芷會 | Set Builder |
| Jenn Sartor | Set Builder |
| Jono Peters | Welder |
| Anthony Snelgrove | Welder |
| Melanie Farrar | Cutter |
| Linda Pinhay | Dyer |
| Sonja Rainey | Scenic Painter |
Staff
| David Fisher | Mainspace Technician |
| Jason Golinsky | Production Manager |
| Jason Golinsky | Technical Director |
