About this project
When playing house leads to playing broken home.
Comparable to an episode of Rugrats on LSD, Mr. Marmalade centres around Lucy, age four, and her abusive relationship with her imaginary friend, a violent, sex-obsessed drug addict. The play's dark comic lens explores the ways in which children today are being socialized and sexualized at a younger and younger age. While the play examines children pressured into adult situations, this site-specific production takes audiences on the opposite journey, inviting them inside the walls of a kindergarten classroom.
Featuring David Storch, Amy Keating, Katherine Cullen, Sebastien Heins, Ishai Buchbinder, and Jason Chinn. (A group that hails from all over Canada and beyond: Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montreal, and one guy from Durham County, North Carolina).
Directed by Mitchell Cushman.
Stage Managed by Ava Jane Markus
Designed by Jon Grosz
Playing at the Toronto SummerWorks Festival, August 4 – 14, 2011.
One of the exciting things about this production is that we are renting out a real-life kindergarten classroom, inside St. Mary Catholic School, in which we’ll be staging our show. We hope to use the site-specific nature of this piece to forge an intimate, more personal relationship with our audience, as well as branch out to people who might not normally attend the theatre. Due to the unique nature of our venue, the show will have a very limited house count, playing to a maximum of 40 people per performance. This limits the amount of revenue we are able to earn back on ticket sales.
Your contributions to our production will go directly to helping subsidize the cost
of renting the space for rehearsals and performance (Approx. $1000), plus to
bolster our publicity budget (target - $500), so that we have the resources to get
the word out about this unique production.
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Our undying gratitude (plus our imaginary friend will have an imaginary tea party with your imaginary friend)
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A big thank you in our program and on our website, where you will be listed as a “Piggy Bank Smasher” supporter of our production, PLUS ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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A delectable piece of toast with delicious marmalade spread over top of it (we will find a way to get this to you, still warm, wherever you are), PLUS ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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A finger painting, done in the likeness of your hand, hung on our set and attributed to you as the artist, as well as donated to you after our production closes, PLUS ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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A poster from our production, designed by company resident designer and illustrator Chloe Cushman (check out her work at www.chloecushman.com), signed and personalized to you by the entire cast and crew, PLUS ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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A pair of tickets to any one of our performances, where our audience guide / kindergarten teacher will give you VIP treatment (including first choice of toy and an extra juice box at snack time), PLUS ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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A cast member from our team will call you up on an evening of your choosing and read you a bedtime story (providing you are all tucked in and with your teeth brushed), PLUS ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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Actor / writer Ishai Buchbinder will write and perform a dramatic piece created specifically for you, based on your own desires, demands and specifications, PLUS ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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Outside the March was founded in 2009 by two emerging Canadian directors, Mitchell Cushman and Simon Bloom, who serve as joint Artistic Directors of the company. Cushman and Bloom share a passion for Canadian theatre and a vision for the ways in which the theatre community and its audience-base can be revitalized. Outside the March was founded with the following goals in mind, which we strive to further with each of our theatre projects:
1) To champion narrative storytelling in all of its forms. We believe that we are all children at bedtime, looking for a story we can escape into—though for the theatre’s purposes, ideally not one that will help us fall asleep.
2) To stage national and local premieres of contemporary, challenging, relevant plays. We want to get there first. We want to introduce both new Canadian and international work to audiences and we want to find our own mode of expression within each piece.
3) To create work that captivates a demographic of audience members not normally found in the theatre. We are interested in exploring site-specific, found space work as a way of reaching out to new audiences.
4) To forge resonant artistic collaborations between established and emerging professional artists within the Canadian theatre community.
