2008/2009 Season
The 6th Annual Potluck Festival -
May 7, 2009
fu-GEN’s Playwright’s Kitchen is in full swing again and we’re cooking up a storm! Come see what our playwrights have whipped up at our annual Potluck Festival!
lady in the red dress by David Yee
fu-GEN Asian-Canadian Theatre Company in Association with The Young Centre for the Performing Arts
January 24 - February 21, 2009
In the tradition of Haruki Murakami & Frank Miller, lady in the red dress follows Max, a DOJ negotiator embroiled in a world of corruption and deceit. Playwright David Yee (Fear of Flight, paper series) re-imagines the Chinese-Canadian struggle for redress as a modern day noir, chronicling Max’s nightmarish trip through the mean streets of
Cast:
Stewart Arnott: Stryker, Hatch, John and Coogan
Ins Choi: Tommy Jade, Willy, Biff and Happy Chan
Nicco Lorenzo Garcia: Danny
Laura Miyata: Sylvia and Mirabel
Richard Zeppieri: Max
Production Team:
Directed by Nina Lee Aquino
Choreography by Clare Preuss
Assistant Direction by Karen Ancheta*
Set Design by Camellia Koo
Lighting Design by Michelle Ramsay
Costume Design by Jackie Chau
Composition, Sound Design & Musical Direction by Romeo Candido
Assistant Sound Design by Kevin Centeno
Background Vocals by Samantha Miranda
Produced by Byron Abalos
Assistant Produced by Richard
Stage Management by Katherine Chin
Apprentice Stage Management by Neha Ross
Production Management by Ryan Wilson
Assistant Production Management by Eric Chan
Head Painting by Natasha Bean-Smith
Production Crew Matt Keast
Production Dramaturgy by Andrew Cheng
Fight Consulting/Cantonese Coaching by Richard Lee
Marketing by Andrea Mapili
Public Relations by Parallel Communications
Graphic Design by Norman Lup-Man Yeung
Photography by Alex Felipe
* The services of Karen Ancheta on were made possible through Theatre Ontario’s Professional Theatre Training Program, funded by the Ontario Arts Council. lady in the red dress was developed under the auspices of Factory Theatre’s CrossCurrents Festival, PTC’s Playwrights Colony, and fu-GEN Theatre Company with the support of the Toronto Arts’ Council through their playwright residency programFor more information click on the following links:
lady in the red dress garnered 7 Dora Mavor Moore Nominations for Outstanding: Production, New Play, Direction, Performance by a male, Set Design, Sound Design and Lighting Design.
Check out the animated trailers for our production of David Yee’s lady in the red dress
Trailer 1 - “Anything goes in Chinatown”
Trailer 2 - “When did we become worse than the rats”
Trailer 3 - “Happy Ending”
Trailer 4 - “Bloodletting”
For more information click on the following links:
- Cast and Production Team List
- A Note from the fu-GEN Staff
- A Note from the Playwright
- A Brief Historical Outline
- lady in the red dress Press Release - Jan. 2009
- lady in the red dress Press Release - Dec. 2008
- lady in the red dress Press Release
- lady in the red dress Press Backgrounder
Banana Boys by Leon Aureus
Adapted from the novel by Terry Woo
Presented by Hart House Theatre, produced by fu-GEN Theatre Company in Association with the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts
$20 - Adults
$12 - Students & Seniors
Banana Boys is a smart, contemporary and wickedly funny play about five young Asian-Canadian men wrestling with issues of race, identity and the death of a friend. It is one story, fragmented into five and reconstructed throughout the course of their lives. Adapted from the novel by Terry Woo, Banana Boys is a “meditation for the restless” and a call to anyone who has felt out of place in the world