PARADISE COMICS
by Caitie Graham
Directed by Darwin Lyons
Dramaturgy: Paula Wing
Stage Manager: Sama Kokabi
Lighting Design: Sharmylae Taffe-Fletcher
Sound Design: Deanna Choi
Set and Costume Design: Jingjia Zhang
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Preview: November 22, $10
Shows: November 23rd - November 27th, $15
November 29th - December 3rd , $18
8:00 pm
56k Kensignton Hall (56 Kensington Avenue)
George has flown the coop, leaving thirteen year-old Beans and her mother, Janie, to clean up the mess. In the process of removing his clutter from their home, the pair is charged not only with organizing the storage of an entire comic book collection, but with facing the responsibility they shared and shirked for a man they each knew so differently.
Paradise Comics contemplates the trials of adolescence, parenting, and how families grieve. Workshopped through Tarragon's Young Playwrights program.
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*This is a Canadian Actors’ Equity Association production under the Artists’ Collective Policy.*
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Media Kit
Caitie Graham, WRITER/PRODUCER
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Since graduating from the Performance Acting Program at Ryerson University in 2014, Caitie Graham has become a committed member of the theatre and youth education community in Toronto, as well as an advocatefor work that engages young women. Her play, Paradise Comics, was developed at the Tarragon Theatre’sYoung Playwright’s Unit; a program for which she now acts as Assistant Writing Instructor. It was first produced in her graduating year at the Ryerson New Voices Festival, and has since received dramaturgical support from Paula Wing in preparation for the remount with Filament Incubator this November. Her writing work has most recently appeared at the Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival (POSE BALL pt.1), and with Then They Fight’s 10/10/10 Project (swimmer), and has always reflected her interest in, and commitment to the storytelling of Toronto youth.
