Good News from the Sun (Part 2)
Video
NEW EDIT IN DEVELOPMENT
In 2027, STO Union is returning to moving-image works originally created within its theatre productions. Selected works are being newly edited as stand-alone films, allowing them to exist independently from the performances for which they were first made and preparing them for new audiences and film-festival presentation.
Good News from the Sun (Part 2) is currently being re-edited as part of this project.
ABOUT THE WORK
Good News from the Sun (Part 2) is a short video project that uses puppets, live documentary footage and animation to tell the story of a theatre director who is asked to work with local youths in her village to create a play. The power dynamics shift as the teenagers grow up and move on to bigger cities and with their lives, leaving the director without a group to work with.
Alone, tired and jaded, the director carries on, driven by the sense that somehow the show must go on.
For the original production (2014), STO Union gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts on Good News from the Sun. Funding was provided by the Roadmap for Canada’s Official Languages 2013–2018: Education, Immigration, Communities.
NEW EDIT CREDITS
- Written, directed, edited and produced by: Nadia Ross
- Technical director, head props and set, creative collaborator: Rob Scott
- Original music: Wayne Hunter
- Performed by: Richard LeBars, Agnes Krischel, Nancy Hildinger, Natasha Grimard, Mara McCallum, Maddie McKinnell, Hannen Sabean, Lori Doran, Tom Werbowetski and Nadia Ross
- Props, set, support: Rob Scott, Nadia Ross, George Acheson, Randy McMillan, Michelle April, Agnes Krischel, Ulrike Fraembs, Alexa LeBars, Coleen Williamson, Ryan MacDonald
- Additional footage: David Nobbs, Luc Paquette and Jesse Williams
Original Production Touring History
2016 / FARRELLTON, CANADA
PA/FAS
June 3–5, 2016
2015 / OTTAWA, CANADA
Magnetic North Theatre Festival’s Encounter Series
June 11, 2015
2014 / TORONTO, CANADA
The Theatre Centre
October 25, 2014
2014 / WAKEFIELD, CANADA
Kaffe 1870
October 11, 2014
