SummerWorks Theatre Festival
Theatre Passe Muraille
16 Ryerson Avenue, Toronto
August 4-14, 2010
Written and Directed by Jordan Tannahill
Featuring: Sascha Cole, Lindsey Clark, David Coomber, Jenna MacMillan, Kevin Walker Cinematography: Samuel Lebel-Wong
Lighting Design: CJ Astronomo
Stage Management: Ben Bavington, Acey Rowe
Post Eden is a 'live film' about a fantastical day in the life of one suburban family in Richmond Hill. Inspired by interviews conducted with a dozen residents of the real-life street of Neighbourly Lane, playwright/director Jordan Tannahill creates a multi-media fantasia in which a girl exhumes her dead family dog from her backyard in order to break a curse that has befallen her family. Actors onstage interact with their filmic selves in disarming ways, as the lines between documentary and fantasy blur.
ContraGuy's Award for 'Best New Creation' (SummerWorks 2010)
'NNNN' - Critics Pick, NOW Magazine
"This multimedia spectacle is an engagingly cinematic take on suburban angst... a truly hypnotic piece of theatre" - Plank Magazine
"An incredibly original production that mingles video with live theatre, documentary with fiction, and animal with human, Post Eden totally gets its liminality on, and totally rocks it." - The Torontoist