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2010-02-28T09:56:00.001-04:00

Reitsma shines in five minutes | The Chronicle Herald
By ELISSA BARNARD Arts Reporter | Theatre Review (28-FEB-10)

2010-02-26T15:15:00.000-04:00

The Chronicle Herald: Illuminating illness
‘five minutes' about cancer, but 'it’s not a cry fest’
By ELISSA BARNARD, Arts Reporter (25-FEB-10)

Metamorphic Theatre Presents five minutes to curtain

2010-02-16T12:05:00.002-04:00

Halifax, NS – Metamorphic Theatre presents the original play five minutes to curtain, written by Ann Foster and Sam Madore, directed by Sam Madore and starring Amy Reitsma. The play runs from February 26 and 27 at The Music Room in Halifax and February 28 at Holiday Inn Hotel & Conference Centre in Truro. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door with proceeds benefiting the Canadian Cancer Society. To reserve tickets, call at (902) 489-4851 in Halifax, (902) 890-9108 in Truro or email info@metamorphic.ca.

“Ann and I wrote this play as a short piece years ago with the intention of expanding the story,” said Sam Madore, co-writer and director. “We're happy that we kept working on the script and have the opportunity to present it today in partnership the Canadian Cancer Society. The partnership is a perfect fit with the spirit of the play.”

five minutes to curtain is about the journey of a young woman diagnosed with leukemia… Rather than focusing on the illness and hospital visits, her story revolves around her everyday experiences – with her disease as the backdrop and her life as the spotlight. five minutes to curtain features musical performances by Amy Lee with stage manager Lynn Redmond lighting and sound technician Greg Wagner.

Showtimes for five minutes to curtain:

February 26 and 27 – 7:30 pm, $15 advance, $20 at the door (matinée on February 27 at 4:00 pm), The Music Room, 6181 Lady Hammond Road, Halifax

February 28 – 8:00 pm, $15 advance, $20 at the door, Holiday Inn Hotel & Conference Centre, 437 Prince Street, Truro

Metamorphic Theatre was founded in 2005 as a labour of love among fellow Neptune Theatre School graduates. Their goal: to put their training to good use. As a result, the artistic mandate of Metamorphic Theatre is to translate the human experience onto the stage while promoting local works and talent. Currently led by co-founder and performer Samantha Madore and performer Amy Reitsma, a Queen’s University music graduate, Metamorphic Theatre continues to look for projects that audiences can relate to. Since the beginning, Metamorphic Theatre has produced four plays, including a successful Nova Scotian tour of Daniel MacIvor’s influential play Marion Bridge. Based on the Halifax performances, Metamorphic Theatre won “Best Play” in The Coast’s 2006 Best of Halifax readers’ survey.

five minutes to curtain is made possible with the generous support of Quartz Sponsor TD Canada Trust.

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DaPoPo and Metamorphic Remount So… What About Love? After Successful Fringe Run

2010-02-02T11:22:00.003-04:00

Halifax, NS – DaPoPo Theatre and Metamorphic Theatre are remounting their original cabaret So… What About Love? after a successful run at the Atlantic Fringe Festival in September 2009. The cabaret has been newly revamped and will run February 11-14 at The Sound Market Café, with the February 14 show benefiting Until the Violence Stops as part of the V-Day campaign. Tickets are $10, $20 for February 14, and are available by emailing reservations@dapopo.org, calling 209-3473 or 420-1395, or in person at Outside the Lines Bookstore, 6265 Quinpool Road.

“We’re so happy to be able to present the ‘new and improved’ So… What About Love?” said Amy Reitsma, co-writer and performer. “The original production was rushed as it was a last-minute replacement for a musical we were about to present but had run into rights issues. Although rushed, it was so rewarding in the end and it was extremely well received.”

This heartbreaking song-cycle musical features original material about people in modern relationships and what/how those situations make you do/feel. It maps a journey from first love, breakup, adult romantic life and loss – connections shared with parents, partners, one-night stands and also audience members.

Showtimes for So… What About Love? at The Sound Market Studio Café, 6208 Quinpool Road:

Thursday, February 11 – 7:30 pm, $10
Friday, February 12 – 7:30 pm, $10
Saturday, February 13 – 3:00 pm, $10
Sunday, February 14 – 7:30 pm, $20. Proceeds from this show will go to Until the Violence Stops, which raises money and awareness to end violence against women and girls both locally and globally.

So… What About Love? is written, performed and directed by Andrew Chandler, Garry Williams and Amy Reitsma, with production and creative assistance by Kim Parkhill and arranger and accompanist Holly Arsenault.

About DaPoPo Theatre:
DaPoPo was founded in 2004. The group is now run by its core members Eric Benson, Kim Parkhill and Garry Williams. Since its inception, DaPoPo has produced several artistically daring shows including: Four Actors in Search of a Nation (2004); The Modern World (2005) by Stephen Cloutier; R.U.R. (2005); Der Reigen [The Sex Play] (2006); 13 Ways of Looking at a Madman (2006); Apocalypse 2006; Café DaPoPo; and Sunday in the Park with George in co-production with Saint Mary's Art Gallery (2007). They have retained an "open door policy" for emerging and pre-professional artists, while working with professional directors, designers and performers. They are committed to making theatre accessible to the wider Halifax audience, as well as nationally and internationally. For more information on DaPoPo Theatre, visit www.dapopo.org.

About Metamorphic Theatre:
Metamorphic Theatre was founded in 2005 as a labour of love among fellow Neptune Theatre School graduates. Their goal: to put their training to good use. As a result, the artistic mandate of Metamorphic Theatre is to translate the human experience onto the stage while promoting local works and talent. Currently led by co-founder and performer Samantha Madore and performer Amy Reitsma, a Queen’s University music graduate, Metamorphic Theatre continues to look for projects that audiences can relate to. Since the beginning, Metamorphic Theatre has produced four plays, including a successful Nova Scotian tour of Daniel MacIvor’s influential play Marion Bridge. Based on the Halifax performances, Metamorphic Theatre won “Best Play” in The Coast’s 2006 Best of Halifax readers’ survey.

About Until the Violence Stops:
March 23 & 24 V-Day Halifax Community Campaign will present a Benefit Performance of the Vagina Monologues at Neptune's Studio Theatre. Proceeds will go to organizations in Halifax helping to end violence against women and girls. For more information on V-Day's Community Campaign, go to www.vday.org or www.halifaxvday.ca.

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Helping Our Community

2010-01-20T12:00:00.001-04:00

Metamorphic Theatre has partnered with the Canadian Cancer Society! In 2010 a portion of our ticket sales will go directly to the enhancement of the quality of life of people living with cancer.

Ticket sales alone will not be enough to stage a show. Therefore, we are seeking to secure additional funding for things such as set design, technicians, touring and publicity. The more costs we are able to cover through sponsorship opportunities the more we can in turn pass along to the Canadian Cancer Society on behalf of Metamorphic Theatre and our supporters.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor please contact Samantha Madore: sam@metamorphic.ca

About Metamorphic Theatre

2010-01-20T09:00:00.000-04:00

Metamorphic Theatre was founded in 2005 as a labour of love among fellow Neptune Theatre School graduates Amanda Jonz, Samantha Madore and Jennifer O’Brien. Their goal: to put their training to good use. As a result, the artistic mandate of Metamorphic Theatre is to translate the human experience onto the stage while promoting local works and talent.

Currently led by co-founder and performer Samantha Madore and performer Amy Reitsma, a Queen’s University music graduate, Metamorphic Theatre continues to look for projects that audiences can relate to.

This Halifax based theatre company puts on productions showcasing Atlantic Canadian playwrights, stories, performers and technical skills. Since the beginning, Metamorphic Theatre has produced four plays, including a successful Nova Scotian tour of Daniel MacIvor’s influential play Marion Bridge. Based on the Halifax performances, Metamorphic Theatre won “Best Play” in The Coast’s 2006 Best of Halifax readers’ survey.

DaPoPo and Metamorphic Postpones Musical and Presents So… What About Love? Cabaret at the Atlantic Fringe Festival

2009-09-08T09:54:00.001-04:00

September 7, 2009, Halifax, NS – DaPoPo Theatre and Metamorphic Theatre have postponed presenting the musical What About Luv? until after the Atlantic Fringe Festival due to delays in rights clearances. Instead, they have joined forces to present an original cabaret called So… What About Love? from September 11-13 in the Neptune Studio Theatre at the 2009 Atlantic Fringe Festival. Tickets are $7 and available at Neptune Theatre foyer from 12:00 noon to 11:00 pm or at the door during the festival, September 3-13. Visit www.atlanticfringe.ca for more information.

“We’re happy that we’re able to present an original work at the Fringe with our new cabaret,” said Eric Benson, Director. “Garry, Andrew, Amy and I have worked hard on it and it definitely won’t disappoint. Despite the snag, we’ll be able to present the originally scheduled musical after the Fringe, later this fall.”

Full performance schedule for So… What About Love? at the Atlantic Fringe Festival in the Neptune Studio Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street:

Friday, September 11 – 7:40 pm
Saturday, September 12 – 6:00 pm
Sunday, September 13 – 11:30 am
Sunday, September 13 – 2:40 pm

So… What About Love? is written and performed by Andrew Chandler, Garry Williams and Amy Reitsma, with direction by Eric Benson and stage management by Kim Parkhill. The cabaret features original material about people in desperate situations and what/how those situations make you do/feel. It draws parallels between romantic relationships and artistic relationships – connections shared with partners and also audience members, characters and other actors.

Metamorphic Theatre Launches 2008 Season with Original Play

2008-04-29T09:13:00.002-04:00

Halifax based theatre company, Metamorphic Theatre, is launching their 2008 season with an original play by local playwright, Caitlin Pilsworth. Pilsworth’s Living My Life in Circles will debut at BusStop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street, May 1-3, 2008, 8:00 pm with a 4:00 pm matinée on Saturday, May 3. Tickets are $10 at the door or can be reserved by calling (902) 429-8742. Visit metamorphic.ca for more details.

“Living My Life in Circles is a continuation of last year’s inaugural Script to Stage Project,” said Samantha Madore, Metamorphic Theatre. “This beautifully written, first-draft play by Caitlin Pilsworth has been workshopped and developed into a finished, polished work.”

Directed by Leana Todd and assistant directed by Metamorphic Theatre founder, Samantha Madore, the play will feature choreography by Susie Keating. Technical director is Evan Brown and stage manager is Karen Josey with set assistance by Holly Irving.

Living My Life in Circles tells the story of Van, a young woman with a self-involved, eccentric mother and a strict Catholic aunt. These two women take turns “raising” Van in opposite environments. Frida barely acknowledges her daughter whereas Ruth showers Van with rules and regulations. Van lives most of her life telling stories from the past. Men come and go in Van’s life including a lovable handy man, a South American with bad teeth, and finally a kind-hearted stranger at a bus stop. Frida, Ruth, and Van exist in each other’s orbits but are only truly alive in Van’s stories.

Living My Life in Circles stars: Sher Clain as Ruth (Sunday in the Park with George), Andre Davey as David (The Bacchae, Pulp Fiction - LIVE!), Steven Heisler as Ed (The Threepenny Opera, All in the MacFamily), Lisa MacCormack as Frida (The House of Bernarda, Alba Under Milkwood), Allison MacDougall as Van (Soul Alone, Morning Dove), Eugene Sampang as Juan (theatrical debut).

Tonight!

2008-02-23T11:55:00.001-04:00

Metamorphic kicks | The Coast

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2008-02-21T21:39:00.000-04:00

Kick It! benefits Metamorphic Theatre | The Chronicle Herald

Metamorphic Theatre Announces 2008 Season with the 3rd Annual Kick It! Launch Party

2008-02-14T10:37:00.003-04:00

Halifax based theatre company, Metamorphic Theatre, is introducing its 2008 season with the 3rd Annual Kick It! launch party at Garrison Brewing Company, 1149 Marginal Road, on Saturday, February 23, 2008, 8:00 pm to 12:00 midnight. All proceeds from the evening will go towards the operating costs of Metamorphic Theatre’s upcoming season. Tickets for Kick It! are $25 at the door or $20 in advance at the Neptune Theatre box office (1593 Argyle Street) or by calling (902) 429-8742. Visit metamorphic.ca for more details.

“This season will be a great follow-up to last year’s inaugural Script to Stage Project,” said Samantha Madore, Metamorphic Theatre. “We have a beautifully written work by local playwright Caitlin Pilsworth. It will be interesting to see how it develops through the workshopping process.”

The evening, hosted by Andrew Murphy, will include excerpts from upcoming shows including the announcement of their second production, Garrison beer, appetizers, silent auction and DJ Johnston Farrow. There will also be live music provided by Christina Martin, Amy Blanchard and Sarah Mian, plus many more. Chances to win include: tickets to Neptune Theatre’s The Producers, passes to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, gift certificate for the Wooden Monkey restaurant, Atlantic Film Festival 10-pack passes, a year membership to eye level gallery, 50/50 draw and door prizes.

Metamorphic Theatre’s first production of the 2008 season:

Living My Life in Circles
Opening May 1 at BusStop Theatre, Written by: Caitlin Piltworth
Director: Leana Todd, Assistant Director: Samantha Madore, Stage Manager: Karen Josey
Starrring: Sher Clain (Sunday in the Park with George), Andre Davey (The Bacchae, Pulp Fiction - LIVE!), Steven Heisler (The Threepenny Opera, All in the MacFamily), Lisa MacCormack (The House of Bernarda, Alba Under Milkwood), Allison MacDougall (Soul Alone, Morning Dove), U-E Sampang (theatrical debut)

Synopsis: Living My Life in Circles tells the story of Van, a young woman with a self-involved, eccentric mother and a strict Catholic aunt. These two women take turns “raising” Van in opposite environments. Frida barely acknowledges her daughter whereas Ruth showers Van with rules and regulations. Van lives most of her life telling stories from the past. Men come and go in Van’s life including a lovable handy man, a South American with bad teeth, and finally a kind-hearted stranger at a bus stop. Frida, Ruth, and Van exist in each other’s orbits but are only truly alive in Van’s stories.

Metamorphic Theatre, which strives to translate the human experience onto the stage while promoting local works and talent, is comprised of Neptune Theatre Pre-Professional Theatre graduate Samantha Madore and Queen’s University Music graduate Amy Reitsma. For more information on Metamorphic Theatre, visit www.metamorphic.ca or email info@metamorphic.ca.

Kick It! 2008

2008-02-13T23:26:00.002-04:00

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Kick It! Season Launch

2008-02-08T17:02:00.000-04:00

Kick It! Fundraiser and Silent Auction for Metamorphic Theatre Association
Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 8:00pm to 12:00am

Garrison Brewing Company
1149 Marginal Road
Halifax, NS

Metamorphic Theatre is introducing its 2008 season with the 3rd Annual Kick It! launch party at Garrison Brewing Company on Saturday, February 23, 2008, 8:00 pm to 12:00 midnight. The evening will include excerpts from upcoming shows, live music, Garrison beer, appetizers, silent auction and DJ Johnston Farrow.

All proceeds from the evening will go towards the operating costs of Metamorphic Theatre’s upcoming season. Tickets for Kick It! are $25 at the door or $20 in advance. Further details to follow soon.

Metamorphic Theatre Announces Winner of Script to Stage Project

2007-11-14T12:00:00.000-04:00

Halifax based theatre company, Metamorphic Theatre, is pleased to announce that Living My Life in Circles by local playwright, Caitlin Pilsworth, has been selected out of 18 submitted scripts for their Script to Stage project, a new competition where writers submitted their first-draft stage plays for development.

“After the success of last season’s Creatures of the Moment, which went through a similar process to Script to Stage,” said Samantha Madore, Metamorphic Theatre. “We’re excited to see what Living My Life in Circles will bring with strong characters and a more female-focused cast.”

The Script to Stage competition was open to experienced and first-time playwrights. The selected script will be developed through a read-through with members of the theatre community, a series of feedback sessions and workshops with actors, culminating into a full stage production, produced by Metamorphic Theatre in March 2008.

Living My Life in Circles tells the story of Van, a young woman with a self-involved, eccentric mother and a strict Catholic aunt. These two women take turns “raising” Van in opposite environments. Frida barely acknowledges her daughter whereas Ruth showers Van with rules and regulations. Van lives most of her life telling stories from the past. Men come and go in Van’s life including a lovable handy man, a South American with bad teeth, and finally a kind-hearted stranger at a bus stop. Frida, Ruth, and Van exist in each other’s orbits but are only truly alive in Van’s stories.

Caitlin Pilsworth is a graduate from Dalhousie University in Theatres Studies. She recently co-stage managed Metamorphic’s Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet. Previous credits include assistant directing King Ubu at Dalhousie University, assistant directing Soul Alone at Neptune Theatre. She co-wrote and directed Caged, which was preformed in the Halifax Fringe Festival in 2006.

Metamorphic Theatre, which strives to translate the human experience onto the stage while promoting local works and talent, is comprised of Neptune Theatre Pre-Professional Theatre graduates Amanda Jonz and Samantha Madore and Queen’s University Music graduate Amy Reitsma. For more information on Metamorphic Theatre email info@metamorphic.ca.

Still Time for Scripts

2007-09-13T08:13:00.000-04:00

This is just a reminder that Script to Stage is till open for submissions. Experienced and first-time playwrights can still send in their first-draft stage plays for development by September 21. For further details click here.

The White Elephant Cabaret

2007-08-13T12:32:00.000-04:00

Check out the White Elephant Cabaret this Friday, August 17th at the North End Church. Doors open at 7:30 and the show starts at 8:00. There'll be theatre, comedy, spoken word, dance and music. Performances by Catherine MacLellan, Tanya Davis, Mark Little of Picnicface, Patrick Ledwell, Dan Ledwell of In-Flight Safety, Ryan Turner, Sarah Mian, Don Brownrigg, Andria Wilson, Metamorphic Theatre and more! The show will be hosted by CBC's Stephanie Domet. Tickets are $10 at the door and are also on sale at Frog Hollow Books in Park Lane (cash only). Eyelevel Gallery will be running a cash bar as a fundraiser for the Go North Festival that is happening in the fall.

Review

2007-08-07T14:48:00.000-04:00

Twist on Shakespeare makes for good night | Chronicle Herald

By Andrea Nemetz

"Watching Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, is like watching the new Simpsons movie — you have to be very quick to catch all the witty literary references and clever puns as the intelligent humour swings from highbrow to downright bawdy...The Metamorphic Theatre production fills the Chester Playhouse stage with outrageously high energy as the five actors take on 16 often gender-crossing roles."

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

2007-07-16T12:00:00.000-04:00

A drab academic is writing her PhD thesis on an obscure document that will prove Shakespeare had different endings for two of his most famous plays. She's able to prove her thesis when she disappears into her wastebasket, and resurfaces in the worlds of Othello and Romeo & Juliet with hilarious results.

Cast
Shawn Duggan - Othello, Tybalt, Juliet's Nurse, Professor Claude Night
Dustin Harvey - Romeo, Iago, Chorus, Ghost
Samantha Madore - Constance Ledbelly
Kim Parkhill - Desdemona, Ramona, Mercutio, Servant
Amy Reitsma - Juliet, Jill, Soldier of Cyprus

Crew
Leana Todd - Director
Greg Jackson - Assistant Director
Lucas Dambergs - Sound Design
Lenny Langton - Lighting Design
Caitlin Pilsworth - Co-Stage Manager
Shannon Power - Co-Stage Manager

Chester Playhouse (Chester, NS)
August 1 to 11, 2007
for Tickets 800-363-7529

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Metamorphic Theatre Calls for Scripts for New Script to Stage Program

2007-06-19T12:00:00.000-04:00

Halifax based theatre company, Metamorphic Theatre, is launching a new program called Script to Stage, a competition where writers can submit their first-draft stage plays for development. This competition is open to experienced and first-time playwrights. The deadline for script submissions is September 21 and there is no entry fee. Submissions can be sent to:

Metamorphic Theatre
c/o Michael McGlone
P.O. Box 31084
Halifax, NS B3K 5T9

“Metamorphic Theatre started the 2007 season with Creatures of the Moment, by Ryan Turner and Sarah Mian, which went through a similar process to Script to Stage,” said Samantha Madore, Metamorphic Theatre. “It was the first time Metamorphic produced an original play by two first-time playwrights. After seeing the success of that pilot project, we were eager to formalize the program and give other emerging playwrights the same opportunity.”

Through Script to Stage, scripts will be submitted anonymously to a selection committee and one script will be chosen. The selected script will then be developed through a public read-through in mid-November 2007, a series of feedback sessions and workshops with actors, culminating into a full stage production, produced by Metamorphic Theatre in March 2008.

In the meantime, the second play of Metamorphic’s season, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), will open on August 1 and run to August 11 at Chester Playhouse.

Metamorphic Theatre, which strives to translate the human experience onto the stage while promoting local works and talent, is comprised of Neptune Theatre Pre-Professional Theatre graduates Amanda Jonz and Samantha Madore and Queen’s University Music graduate Amy Reitsma.

Review

2007-04-01T23:31:00.000-04:00

Metamorphic Scores: Creatures Of the Moment (9/10) | Infomonkey.net

By Ron Foley Macdonald

"While some of the playwrights’ characters were unpleasant to the point of obnoxious, the players managed to breathe a certain loveable sweetness into their tentatively written shells. Levels of vulnerability made all five characters seem astonishingly real; the intimacy of Agricola Street Space (essentially a modified living room) made the production seem, at times, breathtakingly immediate."

Metamorphic Theatre's Creatures of the Moment Opens Tomorrow!

2007-03-28T09:00:00.000-04:00

Halifax based theatre company, Metamorphic Theatre, will launch their 2007 season with, Creatures of the Moment, an original play about modern relationships, co-written by local writers Ryan Turner and Sarah Mian and directed by Greg Jackson.

Creatures of the Moment schedule is as follows:

* Thursday, March 29 – 9:00 pm, Pay-What-You-Can
* Friday, March 30 – 9:00 pm, $10
* Saturday, March 31 – 6:30 pm and 9:00 pm, $10

In Creatures of the Moment, the lead character, Jackson, thinks marriage is outdated. His girlfriend, Aliyah, fears the alternative as she considers having his baby. Will their union survive a weekend of wine, suspicion and an outspoken friend? Creatures of the Moment alternates between hilarity and heartbreak as it examines the fragile seams of modern relationships.

Director Greg Jackson began working in film in 1999 at the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-operative. Through the Co-op, he wrote, directed and produced his first short film: The Dishwasher Manifesto. He then went on to write and direct Nothing But The Truth and Vent. The three films have screened at film festivals at home and abroad. Creatures of the Moment will be Jackson’s first endeavour in theatre directing.

Though Creatures of the Moment is Ryan Turner's foray into writing for theatre, he's been writing fiction for several years. His first novel, Radiostation Berlin, now being published serially in The Coast, received an Honourable Mention at the 2006 Atlantic Writing Competition. He is currently working on his second novel.

Sarah Mian will be published this spring by Vagrant Press and Invisible Press. She has previously been published in both The Antigonish Review and Halifax publication To Find Us: Words and Images. Co-written with Ryan Turner, Creatures of the Moment is her first play.

Creatures of the Moment features: Shawn Duggan (Angel and Heroes’ Caged, Hard-On House, The Lonesome West); Steve Goldbloom (short films: Symposium, Breakups Are Tough); Samantha Madore (Streetcar Named Desire, Metamorphic Theatre’s Marion Bridge, Atlantic Fringe Festival hits say hello wave goodbye and i remember you); Amy Reitsma (Neptune Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast and Evita and DaPoPo Theatre’s The Sex Play); and Garry Williams (DaPoPo Theatre’s Café DaPoPo and 13 Ways of Looking at a Madman and La bohème’s Maritime Concert Opera).

Metamorphic Theatre, which strives to translate the human experience onto the stage while promoting local works and talent, is comprised of Neptune Theatre Pre-Professional Theatre graduates Amanda Jonz and Samantha Madore and Queen’s University Music graduate Amy Reitsma. For more information on Metamorphic Theatre, visit www.metamorphic.ca or email info@metamorphic.ca.

Toot!

2007-03-27T12:00:00.000-04:00

Go see this play. That's all I have to say. Well, except for the fact that I sat in on an early reading, and it's great--really contemporary, this ain't your mama's Neptune. The writers, Ryan Turner and Sarah Mian, are two of the most talented in the city, and Metamorphic won Best Production in the Coast's readers' survey last year. What else do you need?

From The Coast's Blog Horn

Metamorphic Theatre Launches 2007 Season with Creatures of the Moment

2007-03-15T15:29:00.000-04:00

MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release

Halifax, NS, March 14, 2007 – Halifax based theatre company, Metamorphic Theatre, will launch their 2007 season with, Creatures of the Moment, an original play about modern relationships, co-written by local writers Ryan Turner and Sarah Mian and directed by Greg Jackson. Performances will take place March 29-31, at The Space, 2353 Agricola Street. Tickets are $10 at the door, or by calling (902) 429-8742. The second play of the season, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), will opening on July 31 at Chester Playhouse.

“We’re anxious to get our 2007 season started with Creatures of the Moment,” said Samantha Madore, Metamorphic Theatre. “It will be the first time Metamorphic is producing an original play by two first-time playwrights and a first-time theatre director. It will be interesting to see how artists from different disciplines interpret the stage.”

In Creatures of the Moment, the lead character, Jackson, thinks marriage is outdated. His girlfriend, Aliyah, fears the alternative as she considers having his baby. Will their union survive a weekend of wine, suspicion and an outspoken friend? Creatures of the Moment alternates between hilarity and heartbreak as it examines the fragile seams of modern relationships.

Creatures of the Moment schedule is as follows:

* Thursday, March 29 – 9:00 pm, Pay-What-You-Can
* Friday, March 30 – 9:00 pm, $10
* Saturday, March 31 – 6:30 pm and 9:00 pm, $10

Director Greg Jackson began working in film in 1999 at the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-operative. Through the Co-op, he wrote, directed and produced his first short film: The Dishwasher Manifesto. He then went on to write and direct Nothing But The Truth and Vent. The three films have screened at film festivals at home and abroad. Creatures of the Moment will be Jackson’s first endeavour in theatre directing.

Though Creatures of the Moment is Ryan Turner's foray into writing for theatre, he's been writing fiction for several years. His first novel, Radiostation Berlin, now being published serially in The Coast, received an Honourable Mention at the 2006 Atlantic Writing Competition. He is currently working on his second novel.

Sarah Mian will be published this spring by Vagrant Press and Invisible Press. She has previously been published in both The Antigonish Review and Halifax publication To Find Us: Words and Images. Co-written with Ryan Turner, Creatures of the Moment is her first play.

Creatures of the Moment features: Shawn Duggan (Angel and Heroes’ Caged, Hard-On House, The Lonesome West); Steve Goldbloom (short films: Symposium, Breakups Are Tough); Samantha Madore (Streetcar Named Desire, Metamorphic Theatre’s Marion Bridge, Atlantic Fringe Festival hits say hello wave goodbye and i remember you); Amy Reitsma (Neptune Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast and Evita and DaPoPo Theatre’s The Sex Play); and Garry Williams (DaPoPo Theatre’s Café DaPoPo and 13 Ways of Looking at a Madman and La bohème’s Maritime Concert Opera).

Metamorphic Theatre, which strives to translate the human experience onto the stage while promoting local works and talent, is comprised of Neptune Theatre Pre-Professional Theatre graduates Amanda Jonz and Samantha Madore and Queen’s University Music graduate Amy Reitsma. For more information on Metamorphic Theatre, visit www.metamorphic.ca or email info@metamorphic.ca.

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For more information or interview requests, please contact:

Ivy Ho, Publicist
Ivy Ho Communications
Cell: (902) 430-7679
Email: ivyho@ns.sympatico.ca

Samantha Madore
Metamorphic Theatre
Tel: (902) 429-8742
Email: sam@metamorphic.ca

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Creatures of the Moment Update

2007-03-08T23:52:00.000-04:00

Opening March 30, at The Space
Co-written by Ryan Turner and Sarah Mian, directed by Greg Jackson
Featuring: Shawn Duggan, Steve Goldbloom, Samantha Madore, Amy Reitsma and Garry Williams

Synopsis: Jackson thinks marriage is outdated; Aliyah fears the alternative as she considers having his baby. Will their union survive a weekend of wine, suspicion and an outspoken friend? Creatures of the Moment alternates between hilarity and heartbreak as it examines the fragile seams of modern relationships.