Offensive To Some played December 7-9, 2017 at the Gathering Place Theatre
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She suffered his abuse for years, and now she's in prison for his murder.
This darkly humorous play is the story of how a Newfoundland survivor of a "little domestic situation" unlocks her own strength and self-worth through one extreme act. Nevertheless, she persisted... |
Written by Berni Stapleton
Directed by Ruth Lawrence Starring Miranda MacDonald Production management by Mara Bredovskis Stage management by Jaimie Tait Lighting design by Diana Daly Sound design by Lori Clarke |
Emily Austin - Set Designer
Emily is originally from CBS, NL and has a BFA in Technical Theatre Production from Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. She specializes in scenic carpentry and painting with her recent work including Colony of Unrequited Dreams (2017 national tour) for Artist Fraud; Sound of Music and Dead Man Walking for Opera On The Avalon; Mamma Mia for Theatre St. John’s; and Dedication for the Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company.
Emily is originally from CBS, NL and has a BFA in Technical Theatre Production from Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. She specializes in scenic carpentry and painting with her recent work including Colony of Unrequited Dreams (2017 national tour) for Artist Fraud; Sound of Music and Dead Man Walking for Opera On The Avalon; Mamma Mia for Theatre St. John’s; and Dedication for the Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company.
Mara Bredovskis - Production Manager
Originally from Hamilton, ON, Mara now calls St. John’s home. Credits include: Isle of Demons (PerSIStence Theatre); Mamma Mia and The Little Mermaid (Theatre St. John's); Dead Man Walking, Sound of Music, and Ours (Opera on the Avalon); Between Breaths (Artistic Fraud); Circus Glorious and Bolt Out of the Blue (Wonderbolt Circus); Hunger (White Rooster Theatre); PROUD (Double-Sure Theatre Co-op); Spamalot (Atlantic Light Theatre), Give Me Back (skc originals); the Spring 2016 season as an assistant technical director at the Canadian Opera Company; and four seasons at the Grand Bank Regional Theatre.
Originally from Hamilton, ON, Mara now calls St. John’s home. Credits include: Isle of Demons (PerSIStence Theatre); Mamma Mia and The Little Mermaid (Theatre St. John's); Dead Man Walking, Sound of Music, and Ours (Opera on the Avalon); Between Breaths (Artistic Fraud); Circus Glorious and Bolt Out of the Blue (Wonderbolt Circus); Hunger (White Rooster Theatre); PROUD (Double-Sure Theatre Co-op); Spamalot (Atlantic Light Theatre), Give Me Back (skc originals); the Spring 2016 season as an assistant technical director at the Canadian Opera Company; and four seasons at the Grand Bank Regional Theatre.
Lori Clarke - Sound Design
Lori Clarke has collaborated with dance, theatre and film artists as sound designer, composer and performer for more than 30 years. Her work and research interests are informed both by art practice and her practice in body psychotherapy. Lori runs Resonance Somatic Counselling Services where she works with people finding hope and connecting to vitality as they heal from cumulative and traumatic stress. Loriclarke.com
Lori Clarke has collaborated with dance, theatre and film artists as sound designer, composer and performer for more than 30 years. Her work and research interests are informed both by art practice and her practice in body psychotherapy. Lori runs Resonance Somatic Counselling Services where she works with people finding hope and connecting to vitality as they heal from cumulative and traumatic stress. Loriclarke.com
Diana Daly - Lighting Design
Diana is a multi-instrumentalist, performer, printmaker, storyteller and songwriter with a history as a production/stage manager and lighting designer. This is the first lighting design she has done in years and she is delighted to be flexing that part of her brain again on such an extraordinary script and with such a great group of women. Diana is originally from St.John's and has spent the last ten + years living and working in BC, Montreal and Nunavik. Favourite projects that she has created include: The Fogo Island Song Share, the Lhasa de Sela Youth Stage (now in its 6th year!!) for the Montreal Folk Festival, her EP When Women Kill, being the "Femme d'Orchestre" for the puppet show Kate Crackerberry and all of the musical experiences with her students in Puvirnituq and Kangirsuk. Diana is one of three members of the Daly Family Collective with Louise Moyes and Anne Troake and together they have made the multi disciplinary stage show If A Place Could Be Made. It should be mentioned that Diana first saw Offensive to Some when she was a plucky young woman, some 20 odd years ago, and it made an indelible impact on her sensibilities as a feminist, a thinker and a creator.
Diana is a multi-instrumentalist, performer, printmaker, storyteller and songwriter with a history as a production/stage manager and lighting designer. This is the first lighting design she has done in years and she is delighted to be flexing that part of her brain again on such an extraordinary script and with such a great group of women. Diana is originally from St.John's and has spent the last ten + years living and working in BC, Montreal and Nunavik. Favourite projects that she has created include: The Fogo Island Song Share, the Lhasa de Sela Youth Stage (now in its 6th year!!) for the Montreal Folk Festival, her EP When Women Kill, being the "Femme d'Orchestre" for the puppet show Kate Crackerberry and all of the musical experiences with her students in Puvirnituq and Kangirsuk. Diana is one of three members of the Daly Family Collective with Louise Moyes and Anne Troake and together they have made the multi disciplinary stage show If A Place Could Be Made. It should be mentioned that Diana first saw Offensive to Some when she was a plucky young woman, some 20 odd years ago, and it made an indelible impact on her sensibilities as a feminist, a thinker and a creator.
Ruth Lawrence - Director
Ruth Lawrence’s work as an actor, writer, and filmmaker has taken her to Ireland, France, the US, and across Canada. She is the artistic director of White Rooster Theatre. Since 1991, she has performed lead and principal roles in over 100 professional theatre, film, television, and radio projects, mostly original productions. Ruth has performed with theatre companies including Tarragon Theatre, Sarasvati, Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre (mainstage and second space), Rising Tide Theatre, Wonderbolt Productions, She Said Yes!, White Rooster, c2c theatre, and Newfoundland Young People’s Theatre, and she has toured Newfoundland & Labrador (extensively), across Canada, and Ireland with various productions. Ruth was named the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council’s 2011 Artist of the Year and in 2013 was honoured with the Queen’s Jubilee Medal.
Ruth Lawrence’s work as an actor, writer, and filmmaker has taken her to Ireland, France, the US, and across Canada. She is the artistic director of White Rooster Theatre. Since 1991, she has performed lead and principal roles in over 100 professional theatre, film, television, and radio projects, mostly original productions. Ruth has performed with theatre companies including Tarragon Theatre, Sarasvati, Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre (mainstage and second space), Rising Tide Theatre, Wonderbolt Productions, She Said Yes!, White Rooster, c2c theatre, and Newfoundland Young People’s Theatre, and she has toured Newfoundland & Labrador (extensively), across Canada, and Ireland with various productions. Ruth was named the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council’s 2011 Artist of the Year and in 2013 was honoured with the Queen’s Jubilee Medal.
Miranda MacDonald - Actor
Theatre: Context (Echo Productions, Toronto); The Wedding Singer (Stage West Calgary); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon); Lights, Camera, Christmas! (Upper Canada Playhouse); Rob Ford the Musical (Factory Theatre, Toronto); Fortunes Fools (Shakespearience Group); Back in 59 Tour (Showboat Festival Theatre); Pinkalicious the Musical (The LOT). Teaching / directing: choreographer for A Call to Arms (Atlantic Light Theatre); co-creator of summer youth company Newfoundland to Broadway; choreographer/director/music director, Liberty Junction Theatre; creator of Dynamic Sound and Dynamic Fusion Show Choirs. Currently: choreographer for Guys and Dolls (Atlantic Light Theatre); voice and piano teacher for MacDonald Music Studio. Upcoming: Seussical (SYC). Training: Sheridan College – BAA in Musical Theatre Performance. Miranda recently moved back to St. John’s to not only start a new chapter with her small family but to share her knowledge, training and passion of her theatre experiences to performers here on The Rock. www.mirandamacdonaldbutler.com
Theatre: Context (Echo Productions, Toronto); The Wedding Singer (Stage West Calgary); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon); Lights, Camera, Christmas! (Upper Canada Playhouse); Rob Ford the Musical (Factory Theatre, Toronto); Fortunes Fools (Shakespearience Group); Back in 59 Tour (Showboat Festival Theatre); Pinkalicious the Musical (The LOT). Teaching / directing: choreographer for A Call to Arms (Atlantic Light Theatre); co-creator of summer youth company Newfoundland to Broadway; choreographer/director/music director, Liberty Junction Theatre; creator of Dynamic Sound and Dynamic Fusion Show Choirs. Currently: choreographer for Guys and Dolls (Atlantic Light Theatre); voice and piano teacher for MacDonald Music Studio. Upcoming: Seussical (SYC). Training: Sheridan College – BAA in Musical Theatre Performance. Miranda recently moved back to St. John’s to not only start a new chapter with her small family but to share her knowledge, training and passion of her theatre experiences to performers here on The Rock. www.mirandamacdonaldbutler.com
Berni Stapleton - Playwright
Berni Stapleton is a playwright, author and director. She is a recipient of the Rhonda Payne Award for Excellence in Theatre from Arts NL. She is a recipient of the WANL award for best work in non-fiction for her book They Let Down Baskets. Her book This is the Cat from Creative Books won rave reviews. She was recently featured in the Cuffer Anthology of short stories. She was also recently published in the new Breakwater Books Anthology of Newfoundland Plays, as well as the anthologies Voices From the Landwash, (Breakwater) Going it Alone (Nuage) and has been featured in the Capilano Review. Berni's company Girl Power Inc. produced her hit show Brazil Square to sold-out audiences this summer at the newly restored Majestic Theatre. Berni is a respected performer with such companies as Artistic Fraud, Rising Tide Theatre and Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre.
Berni Stapleton is a playwright, author and director. She is a recipient of the Rhonda Payne Award for Excellence in Theatre from Arts NL. She is a recipient of the WANL award for best work in non-fiction for her book They Let Down Baskets. Her book This is the Cat from Creative Books won rave reviews. She was recently featured in the Cuffer Anthology of short stories. She was also recently published in the new Breakwater Books Anthology of Newfoundland Plays, as well as the anthologies Voices From the Landwash, (Breakwater) Going it Alone (Nuage) and has been featured in the Capilano Review. Berni's company Girl Power Inc. produced her hit show Brazil Square to sold-out audiences this summer at the newly restored Majestic Theatre. Berni is a respected performer with such companies as Artistic Fraud, Rising Tide Theatre and Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre.
Jaimie Tait - Stage Manager
Originally from Vancouver BC, Jaimie moved to Newfoundland three years ago and is now proud to call St. John’s her home. Jaimie most recently toured to Australia and the USA as stage manager for the Kidd Pivot show Betroffenheit. Locally Jaimie has stage managed Ours for Opera on the Avalon, The Weir for Broken Earth Productions, and When the Angel of Death Says: How Are You for NAX. Past favourite credits include: All The Way Home for The Electric Company, The Art of Murder for Vertigo Theatre, and Chelsea Hotel: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen for The Firehall Arts Centre. Jaimie and her partner Mark welcomed their son Finn into the world this past May, and she is thrilled that her return to work with Persistence Theatre Company and Offensive to Some.
Originally from Vancouver BC, Jaimie moved to Newfoundland three years ago and is now proud to call St. John’s her home. Jaimie most recently toured to Australia and the USA as stage manager for the Kidd Pivot show Betroffenheit. Locally Jaimie has stage managed Ours for Opera on the Avalon, The Weir for Broken Earth Productions, and When the Angel of Death Says: How Are You for NAX. Past favourite credits include: All The Way Home for The Electric Company, The Art of Murder for Vertigo Theatre, and Chelsea Hotel: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen for The Firehall Arts Centre. Jaimie and her partner Mark welcomed their son Finn into the world this past May, and she is thrilled that her return to work with Persistence Theatre Company and Offensive to Some.
