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Offline Leanne

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A play about KIDS
« on: October 23, 2003, 02:08:00 AM »
For those of you who would like to see a play based on KIDS and a Calgary teen's experiences in that programme for 7 1/2 years, and if you may be in Alberta, come see the show I've co-written and am directing called "Saving Grace:Based on a True Story".
It runs Dec. 9-20th at the Joyce Doolittle Theatre at the Pumphouse Theatres in Calgary, Alberta. You can call 403-263-0079 for information. If you want more details, I will be happy to provide them to you.
Obviously, I am also aware that some of you, based on previous postings, do not support the idea of trying to get the message out about the dangers involved in this type of treatment through the use of theatre. However, I am extending this invitation because I do believe it is a worthwhile cause and I would like to have other survivors give me feedback on the script.
Leanne
Foxglove Theatre Productions

An Animated Cartoon Theology:
1. People are animals.
2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain.
3. Life is antagonistic to the living.
4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music.
5. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning.
6. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum.
7. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.
-- E. L. Doctorow "The Book of Daniel"

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A play about KIDS
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2003, 09:50:00 AM »
I would see it, but I live too far away. Good luck with the opening and beyond.

   I'd wish I could see how you expressed 7 & 1/2 years worth of the experience into a few hours' worth of playwriting. I can't settle my own 18 months in my own mind. Again Sorry I can't attend, but I would have.
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A play about KIDS
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2003, 02:01:00 AM »
Thanks for the good wishes, and I knew most people would not be able to come due to distance, but still hoping! We move the time frame forward through the use of monologues, which helps as a theatrical device to keep it flowing. Actually, the 7 1/2 years of the programme are in the first act, then in the second act we explain the events which led the mother to the decision of taking her to the programme. It's a kind of reverse storytelling.
Again - thanks for the support!
Leanne

Is uniformity [of opinion] attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
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