The Truth about Comets
Toronto Fringe Festival 2013
and held over at Best of Fringe
(Studio Theatre, Toronto Centre for the Arts)
WINNER: BEST OF FRINGE, TORONTO 2013
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★★★★ ½ – Lauren Gillett, Theatromania
NOW Magazine Critic’s Pick for
Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Production, Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Direction
written by Ginette Mohr
directed b
y Kate Fenton
starring Ingrid Hansen, Ginette Mohr and John Cleland (recorded voice)
sound design by Thomas Ryder Payne
lighting design by Jim Plaxton
stage managed by Tamara Protic
The story of a boy who vanished 55 years ago, and a woman whose only chance at saving her family is by teaming up with someone she hardly knows: her mother. Live music, object puppetry.
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The De Chardin Project
Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, February 2013
DORA THEATRE AWARD: OUTSTANDING NEW PLAY (ADAM SEYBOLD)
DORA NOMINATION: OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN (JASON HAND)
by Adam Seybold
directed by Ginette Mohr
starring Kate Fenton and Adam Seybold
stage managed by Tamara Protic
scenic design by Lindsay Anne Black
lighting design by Jason Hand
sound design and composition by David Mesiha
costume design by Lindsay Walker
assistant lighting designer: George Quan
assistant stage managers: Marta Zwierzynska and Sonia Vaillant
assistant scenic designer: Alyksandra Ackerman
Jesuit Priest. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) crossed continental cultures seeking the missing link between Faith and Science. Condemnation and exile.
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Mister Baxter
A Bring the Buzz Project, Produced by The Quickening Theatre with the support of
Theatre Passe Muraille and the George Cedric Metcalf Foundation
Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, 2012
★★★★ Theatromania
Written by Kate Fenton
Directed by Adam Seybold
Starring Kaleb Alexander, Alex Dault, Mark Gibson, Ginette Mohr, Christopher Stanton and Ewa Wolniczek
Featuring live performance and original music by Mélanie Brûlée
Stage Management: Kate Sandeson
Lighting Design: David DeGrow
Projection Design: Cameron Davis
Sound Design: Kirill Belousov
A troubled man and a young boy on a subway platform have a brief encounter. A teenage couple stuck on a subway train deal with more than one delay. A husband and wife confront a marriage running on opposite tracks. Three stories collide in this hopeful and harrowing new play.
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Fish Face
The Cultch Theatre, Vancouver, 2010
Toronto and Vancouver Fringe, 2009
Critic’s Pick, Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Production,
Outstanding Performance and Outstanding Design. - NOW Magazine
NNNNN Glenn Sumi, NOW Magazine
Written and performed by Ginette Mohr
Directed by Kate Fenton
Sound Composition by David Mesiha
Winner of the 'Cultchivating the Fringe Award', Fish Face tells the story of Rose, an orphaned fisherman’s daughter, who must journey into a fantastical underwater universe to battle a giant squid and confront her deepest fears. She fights to regain her memories as the characters she encounters unravel the secrets of her past and call on her to save their world from tyranny and darkness. This remarkable one-woman show is a fantasy for all-ages. Fish Face incorporates dance, puppetry, improvisation and music, and contains eight distinct characters.
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Code Blue
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, Toronto, 2009
★★★★★ Carl Hiehn, EYE Weekly
Written and directed by Adam Seybold
Performed by Kate Fenton, Mark Gibson, Riley Gilchrist, Laura McLean and John Paul Saurine
Odie Dunn, a brilliant, charismatic young man in his first year of medical school is well on his way to becoming a noble, successful, and wealthy doctor. Set amidst dancing cadavers and apocalyptic cicadas, Code Blue is a surreal comedy about faith, hope, and love, and what happens when you lose all three.
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The Children's Museum
Exit Theatre, San Francisco, 2007
Written by Kate Fenton, Ginette Mohr and Adam Seybold
Directed by Adam Seybold
Performed by Kate Fenton and Ginette Mohr
Past, present and future collide when two sisters reunite in the family home. Together they unlock an ancient hidden world of prophets, fairytales and black holes. The Quickening Theatre weaves a story of terror and dreams through the fine line between reality and fantasy.
