ONE
Created by Jason Carnew
Directed by Eric Rose
A Ghost River Theatre Production

“ONE is visually arresting and full of heart and humanity. Highly recommended.” Robert Crew, Toronto Star

Surrender to emotions as big as the ocean and as small as the stars. A free-association on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, ONE follows the desperate journey of Philistine, an impassioned librarian searching for the love of her life, George, an astronomer who’s been lost at sea. Her devotion takes her beyond the fabric of the living world and into the strange and all-consuming world of the dead—a realm suffused in memory, imagery, sound, and fragments of language. Through stunning visual imagery, highly stylized movement, poetic language, innovative design, and evocative soundscape, ONE delivers an experience that is at once an engaging narrative and a sensory adventure.

Winner of three Betty Mitchell (Calgary Theatre) Awards and the Canadian Stage Award for Direction (2011 SummerWorks Festival, Toronto), ONE has been presented at the Revolutions International Festival (Albuquerque), SummerWorks Theatre Festival (Toronto), Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (Burnaby), Belfry Theatre (Victoria), and will be presented in Factory Theatre’s 50th Anniversary Season (Toronto) in April 2020.

Length: 65 minutes in length with no intermission.

Ghost River Theatre is an award-winning devised theatre company that creates and mounts original productions through a significant investment in imaginative research and development. Led by AD Eric Rose and ED Kate Stadel, the company makes its work in a rigorous and supportive collaborative-creation environment. Its productions embrace a hybrid of high-tech visual spectacle with low-fi theatrical magic. Over its 26-year history, GRT has created and toured some of the most thoughtful, imaginative, and seemingly impossible work produced in Canada.

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Home Base: Alberta