May 9-13, 2024 | Showtimes Below | The Shu-Box, Riddell Centre
Two one-act performances, presented together, from Helen Pridmore and Shannon Holmes exploring common themes of love and loss, family, and living with dementia. This production is appropriate for all ages.
Helen's solo vocal piece Mother Calling explores stories and sounds from the last few years of her parents' lives as they experienced the losses of dementia while still sharing their love. Love letters and music form the crux of the show, just as love and music formed the crux of family life.
Shannon's show The Crook of Your Arm explores the sense of betrayal that living with dementia has on the person suffering from it as well as those closest to them. It is a story of a family struggling to care for their loved one told through text, song and movement.
This production is grateful for the support of SK Arts.
RISER is supported by the Government of Canada, RBC Foundation, and a community of Senior Partners. RISER Regina is presented by On Cue Performance Hub & Why Not Theatre.
Showtimes
Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 2:00pm
Friday, May 10, 2024 at 2:00pm
Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 2:00pm (This performance will feature ASL interpretation)
Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 2:00pm
Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 7:30pm (This performance will feature English surtitles)
Monday, May 13, 2024 at 7:30pm
Accessibility
The Shu-Box Theatre is fully wheelchair accessible.
All performances will have English audio description available.
The Saturday, May 11, 2024 performance will feature ASL interpretation.
The Sunday, May 12, 2024 performance at 7:30pm will feature English surtitles.
Audience members with mobility and visual disabilities will be seated in advance.
See showtimes above for availability of surtitles, ASL interpretation, audio description, or relaxed performances.
If you require a ticket for a support service provider, please contact us at admin@oncueregina.ca to arrange for that free of charge.
COVID-19 Precautions
Masks are encouraged, but not required.
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Mother Calling
Cast
…………………………………..…………...Helen Pridmore
Production
Playwright……………..…………….…Helen Pridmore
Stage Manager……………..…………Tianna Chorney
Dramaturge & Voice Coach……………Julia Jamison
Set Designer………………………...…Brooklyn Bittner
Lighting Designer…...…………….….….William Hales
The Crook of Your Arm
Cast
…………………………………………….Shannon Holmes
Cellist………………………………..………..Simon Fryer
Production
Playwright……………..………………Shannon Holmes
Director……,,,………………………….Johanna Bundon
Stage Manager……………..…………Tianna Chorney
Lighting Designer…...…………….….….William Hales
Director’s Notes
When I first read “In the Crook of Your Arm”, it was embedded within Shannon’s robust 170-page thesis. I was equally fascinated by Shannon’s script, and her extensive research into alternative performance and vocal techniques. My favourite parts were Shannon’s personal accounts of troubling her Classical voice framework, and her intricate, hilarious descriptions of her rib movement in voice lessons — I laughed out loud several times! I felt kinship with this artist’s extended techniques and contemporary practice.
It’s been a total honour to go for a ride with Shannon through this project. Most impressive has been her capacity to stay curious and generative in this re-engagement of the script. It’s a sequel, a comeback, a variation on an original. What a beautiful predicament, to make the old new.
How does the art we make evolve as we change?
How is our work necessarily influenced by the passage of time?
Much thanks to Shannon for this generous dive into her autobiographical work, and for (blindly!) trusting me to accompany her process and leave my fingerprints on this brave new iteration.
I hope the vibrations in this performance resonate in your bones and rattle your own tender stories to the surface, to your lips, into laughter and song.
Johanna Bundon
Thank You
Coming Soon
This production was supported in part by
RISER Regina 2024 Senior Partners