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March 27 Spring 2009just as cabin fever
began on the spark of an idea
and became
a full fledged production
new thoughts are abound
and yes, that's all you get
...for now
 June 29 Summer 2008 UpdateSummer 2008
While their own endeavours have brought them to seperate coasts for the time being,
Sarah Kitz and Holly Merritt are still committed to the continued growth & development of
this exciting and ambitious company.
Here is My Hand Theatre.
July 10 Stay tuned...Thank you ...
...to all who came out and helped make the reading of our next production of
STRINGS
such a sweet stellar of a success
Stay tuned as Here is my Hand Theatre continues the development of the play with plans being made towards a workshop production June 13 STRINGS ReadingTo follow up Here is My Hand's successful inaugural production of Cabin Fever at the 2006 Toronto Fringe Festival, our next show
STRINGS
an original piece by Sarah Kitz
will be receiving a Reading Monday July 9th @ The Duke of York Pub,
39 Prince Arthur Ave.
(Bloor & Bedford)
Doors open & drinks @ 8pm,
Reading @ 930pm
with
STEFANIE BUXTON as Clair
HOLLY MERRITT as Eli
AARON WILLIS as Adrastos
&
narrated by
Amanda Moscar
July 04 Cabin FeverJoan Schenkar's
Cabin Fever
"...with a charm yielded by funny and well-paced dialogue - and performers who are true to the text's comic cadence."
- EYE Weekly
"...it's grisly and hilarious, the actors fire out patter in perfect time."
" Deliverance meets Cannibal! The actresses who portray the two male charcters are good enough to eat."
"All around quality at every level. Great performances from all three. Great pace and timing. Great direction."
" A very professional and well done piece of theatre."
Cabin Fever was performed at the The George Ignatieff Theatre at the 2006 Toronto Fringe Festival,
July 6-16, 2006. June 04 the playwright & the playJoan Schenkar
Playwright and biographer Joan Schenkar is the recipient of some 40 grants, honours and awards for playwriting. Her plays have enjoyed more than 400 productions throughout the world and she has been a guest artist in numerous North American theatres and universities. Her best known plays are collected in Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace (Wesleyan University Press 1998) and her first biography Truly Wilde: the Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece pubilshed by Basic Books/Virago Press in 2000 was nominated for the National Book Award, the Samuel Johnson Prize and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She is currently writing a literary biography of Patricia Highsmith entitled the The Talented Miss Highsmith scheduled for publication by St. Martin's Press/Diogenes Verlag in 2006.
Cabin Fever
In 'Cabin Fever' cannibalism is used as a metaphor for the devouring nature of idle gossip. Three malevolent New England oldsters, ONE, TWO and THREE, sit on their country porch and recite horrifying and hysterically funny stories about local customs in this fiercely unsettling and grotesquely witty play.
"Schenkar's...passion is spoken subtext, catching characters in the middle of the debased imagination."
--Village Voice
What is the path from immobility to ruthlessness? February 28 conceptionit's been such a long journey already, and our plots are coming to fruition. last summer, in an all-female production of Richard III in Brampton, sarah and holly conspired to put a show together and now it's happening; here is my hand's inaugural production of Cabin Fever by Joan Schenkar will showcase at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2006, with the following cast:
One: Ashley Magwood
Two: Helen King
Three: Holly Merritt
Director: Sarah Kitz
Stage Manager: Tina Meister
Scenic Designer: Matt Hemming
Lighting Designer: Steve Lavoie
Sound Designer: Megan Benjafield
this show is a delicious comedy of menace about malaise and inevitability, and the terror they wreak when allowed to fester and thrive.
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