Metamorphic Theatre Announces Winner of Script to Stage Project
Halifax based theatre company, Metamorphic Theatre, is pleased to announce that Living My Life in Circles by local playwright, Caitlin Pilsworth, has been selected out of 18 submitted scripts for their Script to Stage project, a new competition where writers submitted their first-draft stage plays for development.
“After the success of last season’s Creatures of the Moment, which went through a similar process to Script to Stage,” said Samantha Madore, Metamorphic Theatre. “We’re excited to see what Living My Life in Circles will bring with strong characters and a more female-focused cast.”
The Script to Stage competition was open to experienced and first-time playwrights. The selected script will be developed through a read-through with members of the theatre community, a series of feedback sessions and workshops with actors, culminating into a full stage production, produced by Metamorphic Theatre in March 2008.
Living My Life in Circles tells the story of Van, a young woman with a self-involved, eccentric mother and a strict Catholic aunt. These two women take turns “raising” Van in opposite environments. Frida barely acknowledges her daughter whereas Ruth showers Van with rules and regulations. Van lives most of her life telling stories from the past. Men come and go in Van’s life including a lovable handy man, a South American with bad teeth, and finally a kind-hearted stranger at a bus stop. Frida, Ruth, and Van exist in each other’s orbits but are only truly alive in Van’s stories.
Caitlin Pilsworth is a graduate from Dalhousie University in Theatres Studies. She recently co-stage managed Metamorphic’s Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet. Previous credits include assistant directing King Ubu at Dalhousie University, assistant directing Soul Alone at Neptune Theatre. She co-wrote and directed Caged, which was preformed in the Halifax Fringe Festival in 2006.
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 email info@metamorphic.ca.
“After the success of last season’s Creatures of the Moment, which went through a similar process to Script to Stage,” said Samantha Madore, Metamorphic Theatre. “We’re excited to see what Living My Life in Circles will bring with strong characters and a more female-focused cast.”
The Script to Stage competition was open to experienced and first-time playwrights. The selected script will be developed through a read-through with members of the theatre community, a series of feedback sessions and workshops with actors, culminating into a full stage production, produced by Metamorphic Theatre in March 2008.
Living My Life in Circles tells the story of Van, a young woman with a self-involved, eccentric mother and a strict Catholic aunt. These two women take turns “raising” Van in opposite environments. Frida barely acknowledges her daughter whereas Ruth showers Van with rules and regulations. Van lives most of her life telling stories from the past. Men come and go in Van’s life including a lovable handy man, a South American with bad teeth, and finally a kind-hearted stranger at a bus stop. Frida, Ruth, and Van exist in each other’s orbits but are only truly alive in Van’s stories.
Caitlin Pilsworth is a graduate from Dalhousie University in Theatres Studies. She recently co-stage managed Metamorphic’s Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet. Previous credits include assistant directing King Ubu at Dalhousie University, assistant directing Soul Alone at Neptune Theatre. She co-wrote and directed Caged, which was preformed in the Halifax Fringe Festival in 2006.
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 email info@metamorphic.ca.
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