NOISE

by Maria Milisavljevic

Directed by Birgit Schreyer Duarte

Randolph College for the Performing Arts, Toronto

April 3-7, 2018

CAST + CREATIVE TEAM

Performed by Joy Bernus, Millie Boon, Sarah Ching, Monet Comeau, Savana Gallant, Aliya Hamid, Molly Henderson, Christian Hodge, Laura Janzen, Rami Khan, Anat Kriger, Julian Lam, Sydney Montieth, Emily Bundle, Jeanne-Arlette Parson, Mackenzie Potts, Erika Rogstad, Brooke Rourke, Jackson Seib, Alexa Stavro, Timothy Yeung.

Set and Costumes Michelle Tracey. Lighting Ashlyn Kush. Sound Dan Bagg. Video Design Rebecca Hooton. Choreography Alexa Stavro. Assistant Director Kevin Kashani, Stage Manager Spencer Schunk. Production Manager Nicole di Angelis. Photography Seanna Kennedy.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES

What is your greatest fear? Describe a personal dystopian/apocalyptic vision if you can imagine one?  What are the smells, sounds, imagery that describe “home” for you? What is your current relationship to your home (home town/house/family)? Which images in NOISE jump out at you/do you remember best? What is your most burning question about the world of the play? What is the worst sound or loudest noise you’ve ever heard? Who would you be most afraid for in the face of war/natural disaster, etc? Who/what is the “Man at the edge of Ulro” for you? When, if at all, is technology scary/harmful for you in your own experience? How do you feel about the ending in NOISE? Are you a pessimist or optimist—personally, and as a generation? What defines your generation in your opinion? How are you different from your parents and grandparents?  Are you a millennial? What does the term mean to you?  What’s hipster culture? What does history mean to you personally? I.e., how important is it to you to know about the past?  What do you wish for your own future? What do you wish for your children's future?  What would you be if you weren’t in your current profession?Have you ever put yourself at risk for someone else (stranger or not)?  What does consumerism mean to you—are you prone to it or not so much, as an individual and as a generation? What would you change if you could change 1 thing about our current world? What image/object/memory best describes “childhood” to you?  If you had to describe your current life with one song or sound—what would it be? 

Thank you for joining us tonight on this wild and scary ride into a near future. Thank you also for accompanying these young performers on their exhilarating, often bumpy, always worthwhile journey towards becoming who they wish to be in this world. I am deeply grateful for having had the chance to watch them grow even further into themselves over the past three months. I can’t wait to see what’s next for each of them.  Birgit Schreyer Duarte