This weekend we celebrated our marriage and made some new vows in front of some of our best friends and family. What a time was had. Feeling big love still and forevermore. <3
We received some anonymous love letters from our audience members last night.
Less than 10 spots are available for the Saturday evening show, and only 15 seats are available for our closing on Sunday matinee. If you want to see the show, this is your chance.
📸 @gniyayeshg@lesyeuxdeniyayesh
For some, every ordinary day is a fight for survival, justice, and belonging.
In The Cost of Living, The Jess-ter draws you in as performers bring to life a trial about land, power, and ethics. As the scales of justice—both literal and metaphorical—tip and turn, the story expands to confront urgent questions about indigeneity, immigration, and the cost of existence in a colonial world.
Funded by SSHRC-CRSH, this show is a bold collective creation.
Director and Stage Manager: Maddison Litvinenko-Schmitt @mdpov
Performers: Jess Beauvais @bepsi.zero , Banafsheh Hassani @bnshhsn , Maddison Litvinenko-Schmitt
Production Manager: Banafsheh Hassani
Production Design Team: Armando Cuspinera @armando.cuspinera , Catherine Good @catherine_thegood
Artistic Collaborators: Sarah Larmony @surerlurmaner , Marius Zamfir @marius_demitrius
📸 Nastaran Pourtaherian @nastaran_prtn
🖼 Hwaan Han @hwaanhan
The show is performed in English with some moments in Arabic, Farsi, Southern Michif, Kanien'kéha, and French, sparcely translated.
Link to tickets in our bio.
MADDISON DANA AT BOO!
maddison dana has performed for over two decades as/in all sorts but now prefers to tell queer and/or Indigenous stories that represent and probe their own mixed 2 Spirit/settler identities. Recently appeared as Accountant in Waves (Out of Body), Puppeteer/Louis Riel in Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Stage Play (Infinithéâtre), Performer/Creator in Midsummer Bushwa (Mossy Society); vocal director for musicals Hair (AUTS McGill) and Curtains (Starcatcher/Turtle Island); staging director for opera Dido and Æneas (Bonaventure McGill). current MA student in the Individualized Program at Concordia.
Poster by the talented @tebendigoo
Blondes really do have more fun. People are nicer, and other blondes giggle when they see you. Here are some recent selfies for your perusal. I went to Toronto to see @jesselavercombe at @soulpeppertheatre . Late posting because starting grad school soon and got shit to do.
2023 so far part one. How is everyone? It’s been cats and stages… actual stages to follow! #nomorehashtags #catsofinstagram #sidepartsdatemeasaneldermillenial
2022: part deux (San Francisco, Repercussion’s Summer Shakespeare in the Park tour, river Nicole, Ottawa Métis dinner, new tattoo, new fiancé, and Ramona’s 4th birthday!
