Extremophiles (2016)
Produced by
Architect Theatre and Golden Age
Presented by
The SummerWorks Performance Festival
Playwright: Georgina Beaty
Director: Megan Watson
Venue
The Theatre Centre – BMO Incubator
Run
August 5th, 2016 – August 14th, 2016
Synopsis
Field Notes –
September 1, 2020. I’ve arrived. The desert is a desert. There is only Margaret, her baby, and one doctor. The supply drop contained: tuna (live), salt tablets, and me. I parachuted out of a plane. It is… exciting…is the wrong word but it is the only one I have. The question: What is going on right here, right now?”
A darkly funny meditation on a world past the precipice, Extremophiles is an unconventional dissertation, a eulogy, and a mid-apocalyptic bedtime story. In the midst of a spontaneous pregnancy epidemic, only Margaret gives birth – to a very unusual baby. She is quarantined in the far North with her growing child. When April, an eager young anthropologist, arrives to chronicle the emerging society, she becomes more entangled than she anticipated. (summerworks.ca)
Cast
| Georgina Beaty | Performer |
| Erin Fleck | Live Visuals |
Creative Team
| Georgina Beaty | Playwright |
| Megan Watson | Director |
| Karen Hines | Dramaturge |
| Patrick Lavender | Production Design |
| Christopher Stanton | Sound Designer |
| Sarah Fairlie | Live Visual Design |
| Erin Fleck | Live Visual Design |
Production
| Tamara Vuckovic | Stage Manager |
| Daniel Bennett | Production Manager |
| Sascha Cole | Producer |
| Rashida Shaw | Producer |
| Frank Donato | Technical Support |
| Dahlia Katz | Photography |
| Tala Kamea | Poster Design |
