Metamorphic Theatre Launches 2007 Season with Creatures of the Moment

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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In Creatures of the Moment, the lead character, Jackson, thinks marriage is outdated.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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