The Canary Wallpaper (and other short stories) is a compelling, eerie and graceful reinterpretation of Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s 1892 short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, using contemporary dance and music for language in this succinct and compelling piece. In a mysterious world of confinement and muffled power, a woman trapped in a small room sees a creature struggling from beneath the faded wallpaper.

Also a part of this Fringe Festival Production is Underwood, a thirty-minute remount of a dance work in which four women writers from history sit at their typewriters and translate their deepest thoughts into words and paragraphs. Colette, Vita Sackville-West, Simone de Beauvoir and Sylvia Plath are portrayed in an enthralling way by a talented cast, and their movement is punctuated with printed text from the writers’ autobiographies and novels.

Cast
JAIMEE HORN
BO LAM
HEATHER MACPHAIL
ALICE IRENE

Lighting Designer
OZ WEAVER

Choreographer
ALICE IRENE

Performed at the Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace

Show Times
July 06 07:30 PM
July 07 12:30 PM
July 08 11:00 PM
July 11 06:00 PM
July 12 08:45 PM
July 13 04:30 PM
July 14 03:30 PM

For more information visit
http://fringetoronto.com/fringe-festival/shows/the-canary-wallpaper/