with thanks to the Ontario Arts Council Theatre Project Grants for funding the research and development of Swimming In Roses

PRODUCTION HISTORY

FULL LENGTH PLAYS:

Swimming In Roses
The story of two women who started a riot grrrl grunge punk indie pop rocknroll band and three decades of their enduring friendship.  With fifteen roles for women 30 - 70+.  Generously funded by the Ontario Arts Council Project Grants for research and development of a new play.
A private reading on zoom presented September 2021, featuring Ermina Perez, Natalie Morgan, Sundance Nagrial, Claudene Neysmith, Kitsune Soleil, Lisa Anita Wegner, Ann-Mari Zammit.  With non-conventional dramaturge by Meghan de Chastelain.

Her Vincent Sky
A full length drama for three women based on the last two years of Vincent Van Gogh's life.  Set in France, between the days at the famous Yellow House with Paul Gauguin and the mysterious death by gunshot while in the company of Dr Gachet, this story challenges the idea that artists are bound by reality.  
A scheduled reading TBA

Darling, Genius (or How To Write A Novel In Thirty Days)
A mumblecore inspired love story that follows Simone and JP through their thirties and forties as they figure out how to live with each other while living apart.
A staged reading presented by Rachel Burttram Powers + Brendan Powers, Tiny Theatre, Florida, 2020

In The Room
A full length comedy-drama about a family and their relationship with art. Siblings visit an exhibition and discuss philosophy, tradition, death, their artist father and what it means to be normal. When they're not in the room, the art has something to say about them too.
An early draft was presented as a staged reading for a small audience at the Thousand Islands Film & Stage Studio, 2018


ONE ACT PLAYS:
LAFF in the Dark
Left and Right move in and out of love in this four scene ride in an amusement park.  Created for Tiny Theatre's closet reading series 2021.
Presented as a staged reading by Rachel Burttram Powers + Brendan Powers, Tiny Theatre, Florida, 2021

Act Surprised
Four women conspire in the green room during the last night of the show.  A multi generational play for women that asks who's on stage.
A scheduled reading presented by Spark Creative in the Women's Writing Festival, Long Island, NY, 2021

Love Sick Punch
An absurdist two hander examining the obsession of love from the minds and mouths of a doctor and a poet.
Presented as a staged reading by Rachel Burttram Powers + Brendan Powers, Tiny Theatre, Florida, 2020

It Happens In Threes
An exploration of a number reoccurring in popular culture, with observation that moves backwards and forwards with playful and intentional absurdity. Numbers are meaningless until we ascribe meaning. Here we consider how frequently that repetition appears.
An early draft was presented as a workshop presentation for a small audience at the Thousand Islands Film & Stage Studio, 2019

Nature Verses The Machine
Two women engage in a poetic arm wrestle over organic and artificial intelligence.  Inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's treatise The Second Sex.  
Performed at the Garage Theatre, Toronto, 2010
Adapted for film by Wesley Rickert, 2011.  Screened at Revue Cinema and Dundas Video, Toronto.

Accidental Episode
A post-modern one-act that explores consciousness, choice and political engagement in an absurd dystopia.  On the surface two actors climb ladders in a bleak landscape of tradition.  Under the surface the captain and crew keep watch for threats made by an unknown Enemy.
Performed for the public at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto main stage, 2009

Throw Like a Girl
A one woman show exploring DADA, memory and psyche from a feminist perspective.
Performed at the Garage Theatre, Toronto, 2008

Who Killed the Curator
In a contemporary art gallery, curators fight for funding, artists bloat for attention and one stray art buyer can't take home a photograph in a space where nothing is for sale.
Winner of the 2008 Evan Hughes Award One Act contest
Performed at the Firehall Theatre, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2008
Scheduled to be performed at Iowa State University's Theatre Festival in May 2020

the argument
An absurd dialogue of four voices in a brain.  Written in 2002 and later recorded as six minute audio play for a performance installation during Doors Open, Toronto.
Doors Open at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, 2007


DEVISED PERFORMANCE:

Sedan Chair Astronomy
A brief voyage through the mind of Marie Antoinette before her beheading
Performed at Casa del Popola, Montreal, 2015

Spell of the Hippodrome
A four hour outdoor performance using a boxed rental truck as stage to project shadow work, poetry and audio, created with members of 253469
Performed at Trinity Bellwood during Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2013

March To Paris
A poet, a fountain and a paper mask offer a prophecy of repeated revolutions 
Performed at the Louvre Gardens, Paris, 2013

Gesture Hot Cold
Three women leave the island of siren isolation to reinvent the mythical story that decenters the male as protagonist
Performed at the Garage Theatre, Toronto, 2012

Climbing The Pink Tree
Interacting with everyday objects, film projection and concepts of instruction, myth meets commerce on a futon bed 
Performed at 253469, Toronto, 2011

Kick Exposed Alive
Mechanical monkeys, deserts of plastic plants, poetry clowns and experiments in mise en scène 
Performed at 253469, Toronto, 2009

Dreaming The Objective
An art studio is attacked by ladders, raccoons and absurdist directions
Performed at the Arts & Letters Club studio, Toronto, 2007

Brendan Powers and Rachel Burttram Powers as JP and Simone
in the reading of Darling, Genius (or How To Write A Novel In Thirty Days), Tiny Theatre, 2020

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Workshop and reading of In The Room at the Thousand Islands Film & Stage studio, 2018​

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Spell of the Hippodrome, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2013