From Press Release
“A story is a thought with an axe in its heart
and needles thrust into its tips, keep it nice and linear.”
Presents
HOW COYOTE WAS SWALLOWED BY THE SANDIA MOUNTAINS
Written by Anna Roth Trowbridge and Directed by Nathaniel Bryan
HOW COYOTE WAS SWALLOWED BY THE SANDIA MOUNTAINS is part memory-play, part folk-tale set in the cold reality of Montreal and the mystified wilderness of New Mexico.
Scilla has an objective: she wants to know why Leo, her brother, the family mental-case and the centre of her life, left the city and jumped off a cliff. In order to understand his suicide and a life lived with untreated bipolar disorder, Scilla is writing him into a play. But Leo isn’t about to give her any answers…at least, not on her terms. In the deserts of New Mexico, their exploration of a relationship affected by mental disorder becomes a meta-theatrical struggle between sanity and insanity, between a sister and a trickster, and between two playwrights who see the story through very different eyes.
A rich and introspective one-act play, HOW COYOTE WAS SWALLOWED BY THE SANDIA MOUNTAINS is as much a family drama about mental disorder as an exploration of the strengths and limitations of theatrical modes of expression. The competition between Scilla’s script and Leo’s “play” pits Realism against Expressionism in an attempt to understand human irrationality, and in a tribute to the richness that competing voices bring to a shared story.
HOW COYOTE WAS SWALLOWED BY THE SANDIA MOUNTAINS
Presented by One Foot Wet Theatre
As part of The Fringe: Toronto’s Theatre Festival
Produced by Scott McAuley
Written by Anna Roth Trowbridge ● Directed by Nathaniel Bryan
Stage managed by Andrea Harrington ● Set design by Ryan M. Kichler ● Original score & sound design by Sam Sholdice
Starring Alex Vincent as Scilla and Nathan Bitton as Leo
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St. George Street (South of Harbord)
Thursday, July 1 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, July 3 at 11:00PM
Monday, July 5 at 1:00PM
Wednesday, July 7 at 7:30PM
Thursday, July 8 at 4:15PM
Friday, July 9 at 9:15PM
Saturday, July 10 at 12:00PM
All tickets $10 at the door or $11 in advance by calling the
Fringe Hotline at 416.966.1062 or online at www.fringetoronto.com.
Fringe Passes are also available starting this June.
For show info please visit www.onefootwettheatre.com