TomorrowLove

TomorrowLove Fall 2018 Production

Fall in love with the future. Fall in love with TomorrowLove.

As technology develops further toward virtual realities, TomorrowLove takes on love, sex and relationships of the future. How will technology play a role in our future relationships? Will we recognize love? TomorrowLove has been described as ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ meets ‘Black Mirror’.

Written by Rosamund Small in 2015, TomorrowLove is comprised of seven thematically linked playlets. Rosamund states that the play “is about love and set in many different versions in the very near future, where one piece of amazing technology exists. It is about exploring different relationships and how this one thing activates change in the way that two people relate to each other. Sometimes it ends up bringing people closer together and sometimes it pushes them further apart.”

Guest director Andrea Donaldson collaborated with Toronto designer Anna Treusch (set), Hamilton designer Christopher Stanton (sound), as well as resident designers, Sharon E. Secord (costume), and Paul J. Cegys (lighting). Together, they created an ephemeral world of paper and light that exists outside technology and allows the viewer to see the relationships through an unfiltered lens.

The production was book-ended by two engagement events. Doors opened 30 minutes prior to the performance so the audience could immerse themselves in a thematic display meant to extend the world of the play to the world right in front of us. Following each performance, the audience participated in a talkback with the cast about the themes and content of the play.

In addition, the program piloted ASL interpreted shows. Guest ASL interpreter, Peggy Zehr and Rosalie Vissers, were fully integrated into the Wednesday, November 14 performances.

To read the articles CBC and The Record wrote covering TomorrowLove click the links below:

CBC

The Record

For more information about the theme of TomorrowLove visit the dramaturgy hub

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Hayden and Casey looking at each other from opposite sides of the set

Eight Legs, Two Hearts - Hayden and Casey

Devon sitting in the set

'Til Skype Do Us Part - Devon

Parker and Quinn sitting beside each other and talking

Eternal Space Logic - Parker and Quinn

Rory standing in a projected image of a window

'Til Skype Do Us Part - Rory

Charlie and Joey sitting beside each other looking out into the audience

Reeseman - Charlie and Joey

Pat and Addison standing on opposite sides of the theatre's seating

Perfect - Pat and Addison

Hunter and Sasha sitting in chairs facing each other

I Wrote You This Letter - Hunter and Sasha

An image of the full cast on stage

Full Cast

An image of the set for TomorrowLove

Set design by Anna Treusch

Hayden and Casey looking at each other from opposite sides of the set
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Eight Legs, Two Hearts - Hayden and Casey
Devon sitting in the set
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'Til Skype Do Us Part - Devon
Parker and Quinn sitting beside each other and talking
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Eternal Space Logic - Parker and Quinn
Rory standing in a projected image of a window
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'Til Skype Do Us Part - Rory
Charlie and Joey sitting beside each other looking out into the audience
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Reeseman - Charlie and Joey
Pat and Addison standing on opposite sides of the theatre's seating
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Perfect - Pat and Addison
Hunter and Sasha sitting in chairs facing each other
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I Wrote You This Letter - Hunter and Sasha
An image of the full cast on stage
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Full Cast
An image of the set for TomorrowLove
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Set design by Anna Treusch

Performances: November 14 - 17, 2018

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Matinees: November 14 & 15 at 12 p.m.

Venue: Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building

CAST

Eternal Space Logic

Parker - Samantha Mirandola

Quinn - Trevor Sinke

‘Til Skype Do Us Part

Rory - Jess Bertrand

Devon - John Krukowski Simon

Reeseman

Charlie - Eric Fiedler

Joey - Tia Rankine

Eight Legs, Two Hearts

Hayden - Rebecca Reid

Casey - Taylor Howard

Perfect

Addison - Jess Bertrand

Pat - Kendalin Bishop

I Wrote You This Letter

Hunter - Kassidy Shaw

Sasha - Alec Ewing

Just Like A Movie* (*Digital secret scene

Mischa - Kendalin Bishop

Adrian - John Krukowski Simon

CREATIVE TEAM

Director - Andrea Donaldson

Set and Props Designer - Anna Treusch

Costume Designer - Sharon E. Secord

Lighting Designer - Paul Cegys

Assistant Lighting Designer - Alexandra Carruthers

Sound Designer - Christopher Stanton

Acting Coach - Marc Bondy

Graphic Designer - William Innes

Supervising Dramaturg - Andy Houston

Dramaturgy Team - Alexandra Carruthers, Brooke Barnes, Christina McArthur, Jess Bertrand, Nitten Patel, Wendy Qing

PRODUCTION TEAM

Production Manager - Janelle Rainville

Technical Director - Gill Lesperance

Lighting Supervisor - Cameron Jolliffe

Stage Manager - Maureen Callaghan

Assistant Stage Managers - May Nemat Allah, Shamanta Haider

Head of Carps/Paints - Kendalin Bishop

Props Builder - Shaw Forgeron

Head of Wardrobe - Rebecca Petrosino

Head of Lighting - Nicole Reid

Head of Publicity - Harman Minhas

ASL Interpreters - Peggy Zehr, Rosalie Vissers

ASL Consultant - Anselmo DeSousa

Student Production Crew - Abbey MacDonald, Alexandra Kale, Chelsea MacDonald, Emerson Schaefer, James Liu, Monica Durlak, Samantha Mirandola, Stephanie Dilnot, Thien Tran, Tia Rankine, Yuru Su


SPECIAL THANKS

Alexandra Porter, Cassie Beckham, Marshall Angus Angus Audio, Mark Pearson Christie Lites), Hou Yunpeng, Janet Dunlea Canadian Hearing Society),Kristin Gillett (Communitech)