Scoop
by Julie Vandervoort
Kick at the Dark Theatre
At the Scotiabank Stage
Thursday, May 30 at 7:00pm - $20 plus tax
Saturday, June 1 at 7:30pm - $20 plus tax
Sunday, June 2 at 4:00pm - $20 plus tax
Kick at the Dark Theatre
At the Scotiabank Stage
Thursday, May 30 at 7:00pm - $20 plus tax
Saturday, June 1 at 7:30pm - $20 plus tax
Sunday, June 2 at 4:00pm - $20 plus tax
When a tumor necessitates a transformative surgery that leaves her with one breast and one “scoop”, willful contrarian JAY learns that buxom used to mean obedient, but she needs a word for how her body is now; and that she and NURSE THINGY aren’t going to get along. As JAY struggles with how to be one-breasted in a city where she never sees herself represented, the spirit of activist AUDRE LORDE reaches across forty years to remind her that “how to look the same is not the question some of us have.” Over the course of the play, JAY fights the shame, the urge to hide, and the pressure to acquiesce in the fiction that “nothing much happened here”. She asks: Is the hatred of asymmetry wired into the brain stem? If she were a one-breasted chicken, would she be done in by flock mentality? When the push to symmetry uses strong arms, she pushes back: when an osteopath tells her that scars are three-dimensional in the body and will try to grow through adhesions, JAY realizes her job now is to counter the pull of scar tissue. Drawing inspiration from a journey that runs from the library shelf to the 2010 Icelandic volcano eruption, by way of Titz’n’Glitz boob art and Barbie in duct tape, JAY does just that. Along the way, she finds shifting allies and antagonists who are funny, surreal and troubling. As JAY reconstructs her own kind of symmetry by “making something from what was taken”, she finds an identity she can claim: She is Scoop.
Kick at the Dark Theatre Co-Operative engages under the terms of the INDIE 2.2, professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.
Kick at the Dark Theatre Co-Operative engages under the terms of the INDIE 2.2, professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.
The Team
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Alison Crosby – Lighting Design
Alison is so excited to be a part of EFT's Stages Festival again this year and working on this production! Alison is a theatre artist originally from Cape Breton and now living in Halifax. A participant in Neptune Theatre's inaugural Chrysalis Project, Alison was recently the assistant lighting designer on The Color Purple and Lo (Or Dear Mr. Wells). She is the resident designer for Matchstick Theatre (Joyride, The Little Years, The Woodcutter, Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes, Bone Cage) and recently designed for KAZAN's The Realistic Joneses. Other favourite lighting designs include: See Jane Run, Morro and Jasp Do Puberty, Criminals in Love (Highland Arts Theatre), Tarzan, Anything Goes, The Last Five Years (Garnet and Gold), The Dumb Waiter, She Stoops to Conquer, 4-H Club (Motyer-Fancy Theatre). 
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Andrew Chandler – Director Andrew Chandler is an actor, director, and theatre maker from K'jipuktuk. In Nova cotia, he has performed with Neptune Theatre, Two Planks and a Passion Theatre, Ship’s Company Theatre, Festival Antigonish, Shakespeare by the Sea, and a host of independent companies. For Kick At The Dark Theatre, he has directed Seminar, David Sedaris’ Uncomfortable Christmas, and readings of Before the Leaves Turn, and ‘Til Death Do Us Part. He was recently chosen for Neptune Theatre’s Chrysalis Project, where he recently assistant directed the smash hit pantomime Cinderella, and the striking contemporary drama Lo, or Dear Mr. Wells. He has co-written several shows, including Going Down with Ann Doyle, Stay At Home Dead with Ajar Theatre, and the musical So... What About Love? with Garry Williams and Amy Reitsma.
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Garrett G. Barker - Projections Coordinator
Garrett is a Dal graduate and a Merritt Award winner. Garrett spends most of his time working as Neptune Theatre's ATD, but enjoys working in Scenic, Lighting, and Video design for various companies across the maritimes. Selected Video Credits: She Kills Monsters (Neptune's YAC), Hook, LIne & Sinner (Ship's Co Theatre), What to Expect when You're Not Expected (QRB-NS) 
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Julie Vandervoort – “Jay”, Playwright
Julie Vandervoort has been part of the women’s community and the writer’s community in Halifax for more than 25 years. As an arts worker, she is the award- winning author of two books, Tell the Driver: A Biography of Elinor F.E. Black, M.D. (University of Manitoba Press) and The Perimeter Dog (Libros Libertad), a collection of creative non-fiction essays. One piece from that collection was chosen for a keynote presentation at a 2009 conference in the Netherlands called Imagining Amsterdam: Visions and Revisions. She has given sponsored readings across Canada, including Mayworks Vancouver, and has served on arts panels, grant juries and the Board of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia. She is a member of PARC and of The Writers’ Union of Canada. She participated, as a singer and organizer, of three deep ecology choral CDs, including Widening Embrace, recorded at the Banff Centre in 2011. She wrote, narrated and co-produced Sewing Cabinet, a 2017 SPFF (smart phone film festival) selection. As a legal worker, she has been active in human rights and labour law since 1995 and was part of an ARC (Aboriginal Rights Coalition) human rights observer team in Burnt Church, New Brunswick. |
June Zinck – Stage Manager, Sound Design
Stage Management: Noises Off (Neptune Theatre), Kamp the Musical (Eastern Front Theatre), Shakespeare in Love, Mamma Mia, It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street,Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, Stag and Doe (Neptune Theatre), Shout! (Neptune YPCo), I'll Be Back Before Midnight (Valley Summer Theatre); Broadway on Argyle Street (Off the Leash Theatre); Leaving Wonderland (LunaSea Theatre); Spoon River (SoulPepper/Charlottetown Festival 2016); The West Woods (Mulgrave Road Theatre); Glenda's Kitchen, Kronborg 1582 (Charlottetown Festival 2017). Sound Design: The Color Purple, In A World Created By A Drunken God (Neptune Theatre), Half-Cracked: Legend of Sugar Mary (Eastern Front Theatre) Peter and the Starcatcher (Whalesong Theatre), Concord Floral(DMV Theatre UPCOMING), She Kills Monsters(Neptune YAC) Training:Neptune Pre-Professional Program. Other: Memorial University of Newfoundland, NSCC (Nova Scotia Community College). |
Ryanne Chisholm – “Nurse Thingy, Niece, Various”
Ryanne is multi-disciplinary theatre artist based in Halifax. Recent acting work includes: The 39 Steps (Chester Playhouse), Les and Dawn (LunaSea/EFT Stages Fest), The Donohue Sisters, Ibsen Bites (LunaSea), The Drowning Girls (Neptune Theatre/DMV), Opening Night (Festival Antigonish). Recent directing and choreography work includes: The Bitterest Time: the war story of Mona Parsons (LunaSea/SarAndipity), The Blazing World (Villains/Neptune Open Spaces); Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary (Choreographer, Neptune/EFT); and Slut, a play aimed at combating slut-shaming and rape culture (LunaSea Theatre). Ryanne holds a Master’s of Fine Arts from York University and, along with Martha Irving, is an Artistic Co-Director of LunaSea Theatre. Up next: Ryanne is developing her new play Oh hi, it’s me at Mulgrave Road Theatre. She is passionate about new play development, and hearing oft under-represented voices, and is proud to continue to champion both in her work and the work of new projects such as Scoop. Thanks to Kick at the Dark for inviting me along, and to Jake for all the other stuff. |
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Samantha Wilson – “Friend, Surgeon, Various”
Samantha is a Halifax based director and actor who has worked nationally and internationally. This winter she directed In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) for Sheridan College and performed in Miss N Me for Eastern Front Theatre. Selected Acting Credits include: A Good Death (DaPoPo); When It Rains (2b Theatre: LitLive, Mumbai; Spoletto Festival Charleston SC; Edinburgh Fringe; La Mama New York; Summerworks Toronto; Spark Festival; Magnetic North); Horizontal Collaboration (Fire Exit Theatre, UK); David for Queen, The Patron Saint of Stanley Park (HTYP), The Tip of Things, Dear Mr. Keith (Theatre Yes), Cradle and All (Neptune/EFT); Refuge (EFT); Odd Ducks (Chester Playhouse); In The Valley (Forerunner Playwrights, Best Actor Award– Atlantic Fringe), The Leisure Society, White Rabbit/Red Rabbit, How I Learned to Drive (DMV Theatre). Selected Directing Credits include: The Secret in the Wings (Dalhousie University); Strawberries in January, The Paris Crew (Live Bait Theatre); Really Really, Unity: 1918 (Mount Allison University); Shape of a Girl, Liars (Neptune Theatre); Tuesdays and Sundays (Ship’s Company Theatre); Munsch in Time (Festival Antigonish). Selected TV/Film Credits: S&V, Trailer Park Boys, Haven, Queer as Folk, Legends, So Close. Samantha holds an MFA from York University and has taught at Mount Allison, Dalhousie and York Universities. |
Sean Skerry – Media Design
Sean Skerry is both a Halifax-based Actor and a Graphic Artist with over a decade of experience working in design agencies across Canada. He freelances with a special focus on print and design work for theatre and the arts. www.skerry.ca |
Kelsey Stanger - Costume Designer
Kelsey graduated in 2015 from the Dalhousie Costume Studies Program with a BA in Theatre. In 2016 she began working in the wardrobe at Neptune Theatre as a stitcher on productions such as: Beauty And The Beast, Miracle on 34th Street, It's A Wonderful Life, Cinderella, and as both stitcher and dresser for Mamma Mia, Shakespeare In Love, and KAMP (co-production with Eastern Front Theatre). As Neptune's Head Dresser, Kelsey has worked on The Bridge, Noises Off and The Colour Purple. Select design credits include: Cendrillon, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, L'Egisto,and Don Giovanni (Halifax Summer Opera Festival), The Spanish Tragedy, and The Changeling: Chimes of Bedlam (Villain's Theatre Company), The Little Years, andJoyride (Matchstick Theatre). |