what it’s like
what it’s like, a new work from adelheid’s Artistic Director Heidi Strauss, brings audiences into a shared space to consider performance as an active platform to witness and experience our shifting relationships with comfort, agency, responsibility, and complicity. In a world so threatened by violence and fear, what it’s like explores what brotherhood can really mean.
credits
Choreography: Heidi Strauss
Created with/Performed by: Michael Caldwell, Luke Garwood, Naishi Wang
Scenic Design: Julie Fox
Sound & Projection Design: Jeremy Mimnagh
Lighting Design: Simon Rossiter
Costume Design: Alana Elmer
Vocal Coach: Fides Krucker
Production Manager: Shanna Miller
Stage Manager: Laura Cournoyea
Creative Producer: Rachel Penny
Metcalf Foundation Intern: Jane Alison McKinney
adelheid’s movement-based work looks at interaction between different people and groupings of people, with a specific interest in the situation of performance and how we consider each other (audience & performer) within that construct. adelheid began in 2008 with Heidi Strauss and Jeremy Mimnagh; its work has toured across Canada.
what it’s like was developed in Residency at The Theatre Centre. Residency is made possible by Lead Sponsor BMO Financial Group, and with the support of The J.P. Bickell Foundation.
—The Globe and Mail
★★★ 1/2 (out of 4)
“honest and risky”
“honest and risky”
—The Toronto Star
“Secret Life of a Mother is the rare, transcendent play that proves the power of theatre. Simply put, it’s a masterpiece”
—Eligible Magazine
Suvendrini Lena
Writer and Creator
Leah Cherniak
Co-Creator, Co-Director
Franco Boni
Director
Ravi Jain
Co-Director
Shawn Kerwin
Set & Costume Designer
Shawn Kerwin
Set & Costume Designer
Tim Lindsay
Sound Designer
Rebecca Picherak
Lighting Designer
Melissa Joakim
Stage Manager and Touring Lighting Designer
Melissa Joakim
Stage Manager and Touring Lighting Designer
- Toronto // The Theatre Centre (premiere) // September 2016
Developed in Residency at The Theatre Centre by Suvendrini Lena and Co-creators Leah Cherniak and Trevor Schwellnus with Lyon Smith. With support from lead Residency sponsor BMO Financial, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and The Wuchien Michael Than Foundation.
“Secret life of a mother puts the uncensored female body centre stage”