Play & Rhinoceros
Scenographer, Builder, Makeup Artist & Co-producer
Play & Rhinoceros Trailer
Shot, Edited and Directed by Julia Milz
Costume & Makeup by Danielle Fagen
Lighting Anthony Kennedy
This production of the Liberal Arts Theatre Society of Concordia University of Montreal was a double billed production of Play (Beckett) and Rhinoceros (Ionesco). An exhibition of artworks by Concordia Fine Arts students complemented the performances, as part of the Art Matters Festival. The event was held at Les Ateliers Jean Brilliant, a factory and warehouse turned performance space and Gallery.
Play was performed as an absurdist appetizer in the Gallery space, using three urns of crumpled brown paper, and heavy makeup to depict the iconoclastic love triangle.
The goal of the direction and design was to celebrate the raw beauty of the industrial space. Dadaist and Italian Futurist art historical movements related to the space and script as they helped illustrate the disillusionment of the townsfolk in the written word, and the overriding power of fascist governments looming around them. As the characters constantly question the world around them, two dimensional brown paper props and costume elements, represented the semi-reality of their existence. These same details turned metal, while the atmospheric lighting shifted from warm to cool colours, as the townsfolk transformed into mechanical beasts and followers of a deathly regime.
Director: Anthony Kennedy
Assistant Designer & Curator : Katrina Caruso
Assistant Properties: Joshua Cape & Marie-Maude Polychuck
Lighting: Michele Robinson & Peter Ryaux-Larson
Sound : Devon Bate & David Martinez
Stage Management: Rebecca Ugolini
Producers: Anthony Kennedy, Marie-Eve Reid, Danielle Fagen, Max Ruiz Laing & Marley Sniatowsky
Play was performed as an absurdist appetizer in the Gallery space, using three urns of crumpled brown paper, and heavy makeup to depict the iconoclastic love triangle.
The goal of the direction and design was to celebrate the raw beauty of the industrial space. Dadaist and Italian Futurist art historical movements related to the space and script as they helped illustrate the disillusionment of the townsfolk in the written word, and the overriding power of fascist governments looming around them. As the characters constantly question the world around them, two dimensional brown paper props and costume elements, represented the semi-reality of their existence. These same details turned metal, while the atmospheric lighting shifted from warm to cool colours, as the townsfolk transformed into mechanical beasts and followers of a deathly regime.
Director: Anthony Kennedy
Assistant Designer & Curator : Katrina Caruso
Assistant Properties: Joshua Cape & Marie-Maude Polychuck
Lighting: Michele Robinson & Peter Ryaux-Larson
Sound : Devon Bate & David Martinez
Stage Management: Rebecca Ugolini
Producers: Anthony Kennedy, Marie-Eve Reid, Danielle Fagen, Max Ruiz Laing & Marley Sniatowsky