Sargent & Victor & Me
Directed by Arne
MacPherson
The
Theatrical Masterpiece ends March 9, 2014
ASL
Interpreters are available for Saturday March 8, 2014.
Please
e-mail info@adnm.ca to request interpreters.
Deadline for
requests is Thursday, March 6, 2014.
Sargent &
Victor & Me, written and
performed by Winnipeg actor/playwright Debbie Patterson, is a
profoundly moving and insightful one-woman show which interweaves
accounts of a neighbourhood in crisis and the narrator’s experience of
a progressive and disabling disease, multiple
sclerosis. Challenges encountered by individual and community
reflect and illuminate each other.
To create Sargent & Victor &
Me, Debbie interviewed residents of the neighbourhood,
and devised a script which combines the words of those interviews and
her reflections on her own experience of MS. In effect, the
neighbours become co-authors of the piece and characters within it: a
clergyman who runs a food bank in his church, elderly residents who
recall the neighbourhood’s past as an Icelandic enclave, a fifteen year
old aboriginal girl who has been recruited by the Gangster Crips, a
seven year old who daily copes with poverty and family
dysfunction. (Debbie plays all the parts.) This is a story of
poverty, violence, and disability, to be sure, but it is also a story
of love, generosity, and the enduring strength of the human spirit.
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