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#IAMTHECHEESE

By Josh MacDonald

Based on the book, I Am the Cheese, by Robert Cormier.

Produced by Eastern Front Theatre and Halifax Theatre for Young People.

An award winning thriller about growing up in the digital era.

#IAmTheCheese is a reimagining of Robert Cormier’s 1977 novel by the same name and written by local playwright Josh MacDonald that has been in development since 2017 and won the Playwright Guild of Canada’s Sharon Enkin Theatre for Young Audiences Award in 2020.
 

IAmTheCheese is set in the present day, and follows a traumatized teenager named Adam Farmer through a series of interviews with an analyst named Brint, as Adam struggles to recall deeply repressed memories of his past. Beginning with just a wisp of a children’s nursery rhyme—“The Farmer in the Dell”—Adam begins to reassemble his sense of self, bit by bit. Eventually, Adam remembers the social stigma of his preteen years, when his parents inexplicably banned the use of the internet: no cellphones, no computer, no wifi, etc. But Adam dares to begin a relationship with a girl from his school named Amy Hertz, and this relationship blooms in cyberspace. However, the more that Adam remembers about Amy, and about his own parents, the closer he comes to recognizing that a massive, faceless danger might be surrounding him still.

 

Through exploring the complex and intricate world of growing up in the digital era, #IAmTheCheese is an enriching and reflective thriller for young audiences.

RUNTIME

74 minutes

VENUE

Online | Digital Stage

PRICE

Pay-What-You-Can-Afford (Free / $5 / $10 / $20)

NOTES

Ages 13+

Filmed January 31, 2022 at Alderney Landing Theatre, Dartmouth/Punamu’kwati’jk.

AWARDS

Playwrights Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Prize 2022: The Sharon Enkin TYA Award

Theatre Nova Scotia Robert Merritt Award 2023: Outstanding Projection Design

Theatre Nova Scotia Robert Merritt Award 2023: Outstanding New Adaptation

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HALIFAX THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

NOVA SCOTIA

Halifax Theatre for Young People was founded in 2009 by Tessa Mendel and Chris Heide as a means to fill the local gap in professional theatre created specifically for young audiences. Since 2009, Halifax Theatre for Young People has had the opportunity to create, share and produce numerous theatre productions, and meaningfully engage young audiences across Nova Scotia. Halifax Theatre for Young People occupies a unique place within the theatre ecology of both our local community and our region as the only full-time Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) Company in Halifax Regional Municipality.

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CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

Sam Vigneault - Adam

Micha Cromwell - Amy

Susan Stackhouse - Brint

Sebastian Labelle - Farmer

Josh MacDonald - Playwright

Ann-Marie Kerr - Director

Christian Ludwig Hansen - Projection Designer

Brenda Duran - Scenic Designer/Builder

Everette Fournier - Costume Designer

Jackson Fairfax-Perry - Composer & Sound Designer

Olivia Rankin - Lighting Designer

Virg Iredale - Stage Manager

Patricia Vinluan - Production Manager

Tessa Mendel - Artistic Director, HTYP

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