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The Petition
Workshop Performance
The Petition is an immersive, site-specific, physical performance, part daydream and part nightmare; a downtrodden mother is forced to teach her children a harsh lesson. We intend to present this piece in an empty city lot or park.
Creative Team
Costume and Set Designer
Aurora Judge
Choreographer & Movement Director
Sid Ryan Eilers
Writer & Director
Radha S. Menon
Performer
Learie McNicolls
Composer & Sound Designer
Christopher Stanton
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Rehearsal for The Petition Workshop. Pictured from Left to Right: Aurora Judge, Learie McNicolls, and Sid Ryan Eilers
The Petition
Over the past five years, the world has experienced such severe weather systems that would normally have been spread over a period of five hundred years. Menon wrote a first draft of The Petition as part of a group of poets protesting the proposed Northern Gateway Pipelines. Plays vs. Pipeline Poets engaged in a playwriting relay: each day one participant wrote a play responding to the proposed pipelines however they saw fit. The Petition was presented in Ottawa at Canada’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival 2015 as a pop-up show in the Ottawa School of Art performed by Menon and directed by Dia Gupta-Frid. The text was further developed as part of Theatre Direct’s Play Creation Unit 2018.
In January 2022, Red Beti produced a development workshop for The Petition which culminated in a workshop performance in front of a small, invited audience at Theatre Aquarius Studio.
Red Beti Theatre feels the urgent need to share the story; there is no time to waste.
This workshop was made possible due to the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and Theatre Aquarius
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Performer Learie McNicolls as Amma in The Petition Workshop Performance
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