De Leesclub is a group of actors, writers, directors and other theater minded people who regularly read a play text together. Out loud. Because plays are there to be outspoken! So we divide the roles, we read live together, with a drink in hand, plays by established writers, by young authors, translations of international texts or even work-in-progress. Everyone reads along, but just listening is also allowed.
On Saturday March 25, this programme will be in English.
It'll revolve around Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in her Lungs bij Chelsea Woolley
We will read the original English text together.
About the piece
The play takes place during the eight minutes a girl or woman has to wait alone in a crisis center. The characters are the voices and different personalities within herself. Female gaze? Present!!!
Vic has arrived in a women’s shelter. She has been told to make the bed and begin an intake. Make the bed, and speak. Yet sharing her story is an intolerable enormity for a brain in crisis. Vic and the six personified parts of her traumatized brain, struggle to confront what has happened to them, and commit to the refuge offered from a system often designed to remove a victim’s personal agency over her legal, medical, psychological, and economic choices.
About the author
Chelsea Woolley is a Toronto playwright, interested in work that is large, rhythmic, and women-centric. Her play, Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs started development in 2017 as a part of Nightwood Theatre's Write from the Hip program. She has produced work nationally and internationally including a tour of her piece, The Mountain with Geordie Theatre. She has presented work in Belgium at the Shakespeare is Dead Festival, and at the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C.. She is the creator of the Mixed-Arts Performance Partnership Program connecting young artists living in precarity with professional artist mentorship, and the Head of Drama with the Canadian Children’s Opera Company. Chelsea is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Playwriting Program. Her newest play, Paint Me This House of Love will premiere at the Tarragon Theatre.
