Nadia Ross collaborates with George Acheson, who, at the age of sixteen, was kicked out of his house because he would not cut his hair. Now a barber by profession currently living and working in Wakefield, Quebec, George faces the irony of his fate and looks to the past in an attempt to reconcile a life profoundly marked by the times. Born in 1950, George was an active participant in two counter-cultural movements of the last half of the 20th century. He immersed himself in the social and political upheavals of the 1960’s and, after the movement fizzled out, he found himself working in London, England just as the Punk movement was starting to build. George has spent his life trying to find for himself a ‘way to live’ in a society he feels no kinship with. As he states: “democracy never worked for me, nobody I ever voted for got in”. Now in his mid-fifties, George sees himself as an invisible, generic, middle-aged man. And as such, he has a story to tell.
Text et mise en scène/Written and directed by Nadia Ross
and George Acheson
Interprètes/ Performers
George Acheson
Nadia Ross
WAC director and collaborator: Rob Scott
Régisseur/Stage Manager and Technical Director: Richard Desrochers
Décor/Set Design: Barry Padolsky
Conception des éclairages/Lighting Design: Steve Lucas
Video: W.A.C.
Mask: Rick Ritza
Costume Design: Andy Tait
Direction de tournée/Tour Manager: Sarah Rogers
PRODUIT PAR/PRODUCED BY STO UNION
AND THE NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH
WAC (Wakefield Art Collective)
Agent de tounée/Touring Agent: Menno Plukker Theatre Agent Inc.
CONTACT TOURING AGENT: Menno Plukker
Tel: +1- 514-524-7119
Fax: +1- 514-526-5792
Email: menno@mennoplukker.com
sarah@mennoplukker.com
STO Union gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
