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THE VINDICATION OF SENYORA CLITO MESTRES
by Montserrat Roig
translated by Anne Szumigalski and Elisabet Rafols |
Directed and Performed by:
Dragana Varagic
Set/Costume/Lighting:
Snezana Pesic
Video:
Bojo Vasic
Projections/Stage Management:
Vojin Vasovic
Project Administrator:
Sheila Sky
Assistant Stage Manager:
Aleksandra Mandic
Publicity:
DW Communications
Toronto Star: ”funny, bitchy,
poignant and graceful”
Globe and Mail: “passionately
alive”
National Post:“outstanding
actress”
Now Magazine: “queen of subtext”
Eye Magazine: “with heart, and
skill, and world of experience”
Washington Post: “scintillating
performance”
Washington City Paper: “between
bravado and vulnerability”
International Plays:
“mesmerizing”
Jon Kaplan, NOW Magazine review
"splendid...Varagic is mesmerizing to
watch...visually striking staging...
with the help of video designer Bojo
Vasic, projection designer Vojin Vasovic
and production designer Snezana Pesic"
http://www.nowtoronto.com/stage/story.cfm?content=185946
Christopher Hoile, Stage Door
A
four star review!
"a fascinating concept... Varagic gives
a wonderfully complex performance, both
on stage and in the film. She has a gift
that more Canadian actors, male and
female, need to learn of saying one
thing and suggesting exactly the
opposite through subtle use of gesture
and tone of voice"
http://www.stagedoor.com/Theatre/Current_Reviews/Entries/2012/3/22_The_Vindication_of_Clito_Mestres.html
The Vindication of Senyora Clito
Mestres was first produced in Canada at
the Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon,
directed by Tibor Feheregyhazi.
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Dragana
Varagic –Acting/ Directing
Acting
credits: Have I None, Not My
Story, The Vindication (April
Productions) Biography: A Game
(Atrium Theatre/rtword),
Daughters of Sheherzad (Modern
Times Stage Company), The Witch
of Edmonton, Scenes From and
Execution, and To Damascus
(EST), Pauline and Turgenev
(GCTC), The Catalan Plays
(Persephone Theatre), and
Kindertransport
(Persephone/WJT). Directing
credits: Dantes Divinus
(Dalhousie Arts Centre), Not My
Story (April Productions/Artword
Theatre), Princess T. (Centre
for Graduate Studies of Drama,
University of Toronto),
Snow-White and Her 7-8 Helpers
(Solar Stage), Happiness Channel
(Toronto Fringe), and Miracles
of Make-do (Toronto Fringe).
Upcoming projects: directing a
Canadian adaptation of a short
fable by a Nobel Prize winning
author Ivo Andric Aska and the
Wolf for April Productions, and
a new Canadian play at the
Cultural Centre Tivat,
Montenegro, for the Canada
Culture Days.
Dragana
Varagic (BA Honours in Acting,
Faculty of Dramatic Arts,
Belgrade; MA in Drama,
University of Toronto;
Specialization in Shakespeare,
Shakespeare Institute,
Birmingham University) has
taught acting in the Theatre
Programs of Dalhousie University
and the University of Windsor
and conducted workshops at the
Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic
Arts and the Royal Holloway
College, University of London,
England. In addition to her Dora
nomination for Outstanding
Actress for her work in The
Vindication, Dragana is also a
recipient of major theatre
awards in Former Yugoslavia.
Snezana
Pesic-Production Designer
Snezana is
a graduate of the MFA program in
Theatre Design at the University
of Alberta and the BFA program
in Costume Design at the
University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Born in Belgrade, she is
currently based in Toronto and
works across Canada as a set,
costume and lighting designer.
Most recently Snezana assisted
on set design for The Small Room
at the Top of the Stairs
(Tarragon Theatre). Other
selected credits include:
Production Design for One (Red
to Blue Performance/Ghost River
Theatre) and The Cherry Orchard
(Studio Theatre, U of A); Set
and Costume for Three Little
Birds and Mighty Carlins
(Workshop West Theatre); Costume
for The Fan(Odyssey Theatre),
Roberto Zucco, Antigone, After
the Fall, One Flea Spare (Studio
Theatre U of A), and Seussical (Keyano
Theatre). Upcoming: Set and
Costume for The Game of Love and
Chance (Odyssey Theatre). For
One, Snezana received Betty
Mitchel Award (Calgary 2011) for
Outstanding Lighting Design. She
exhibited her work on various
international exhibits, most
significantly at Prague
Quadrennial 2007 and 2011 and at
World Stage Design Exhibition in
South Korea in 2009. Snezana is
a member of Associated Designers
of Canada.
Bojo Vasic-Video
Boja Vasic
is a Toronto based media artist
and photographer. His work has
been shown at the Museum of
Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in
Serbia, 8th Havana Biennial in
Cuba, VI Yugoslav Biennial of
Youth Vrsac in Serbia, XIII and
XIV International Art Biennial
of Vila Nova de Cerveira in
Portugal, Third Tirana Biennial
in Albania, and at the Liverpool
Biennial, Independents in
England. His video were shown at
festivals in Copenhagen,
Amsterdam, Chicago, Denver,
Toronto, and he has won several
international awards including
the Chris Award at the Columbus
International Film and Video
Festival, a Bronze Medal at New
York Festivals, and the Gold
Award at Dallas HeSCA Media
Festival.
Vojin
Vasovic – Projections/Stage
Management
Vojin is a
theatre and film director. He
holds an MA from the Graduate
Centre for Study of Drama at the
University of Toronto and a BFA
in TV&Film directing from the
Academy of Arts, Belgrade,
Serbia. He has been working in
film and experimental theatre
since 2002. He is a recipient of
several awards for lighting
design and directing in theatre
(Cyrano De Bergerac, Don Juan,
Visit of an Old Lady, etc). His
short narrative film
Breathtaking and animated film 5
Minutes Each were screened all
over the world at many
international film festivals and
received numerous awards for
best direction, best animation
and best of the festival. Vojin
has just come back from
Berlinale Film Festival 2012 in
Berlin, Germany - he was an
invited participant at the
Berlinale Talent Campus where he
promoted the screenplay for his
first feature film "Kill
Yourself for Me". With his
Toronto based theatre company
Ars Mechanica, he is developing
an intermedia performance Show
And Tell Alexander Bell, based
on the life and inventions of
this great Canadian scientist.
Sheila Sky-Project Administrator
Sheila has
been active in Toronto’s
performing arts community since
the mid-80’s. She was the
administrator for the national
service organizations Associated
Designers of Canada and The
Guild of Canadian Musical
Theatre writers, and assisted in
producing/coordinating a series
of major commercial musical
theatre works for Warrack
Productions, Bradley/Francis
Production, Brian MacDonald
Productions and Ron Francis
Theatrical Management. She also
coordinated tours in North
America for Mirvish Productions
and the Esprit and SMCQ
Orchestras. Since founding Sky
Arts Management she has
undertaken general management,
strategic and logistical
planning, marketing, publicity,
and fundraising and for
Continuum Contemporary Music,
Theatre Gargantua, Rasik Arts,
Patria Music Theatre
Productions. She is currently
administrator for Puppetmongers
and a Director of membership
Services and Communications for
Associated Designers of Canada.
Sheila holds an Honours BA in
French&Dramatic Literature, as
well as Masters from the
Graduate Centree for the Study
of Drama. Recently Sheila
participated in the MaRS Centre
program for Social
Enterpreneurship.
Aleksandra
Mandic-Assistant Stage Manager
Aleksandra
studies theatre at the York
University, Toronto. She is
interested in stage management
and set design. Aleksandra is
extremely grateful to be working
with April Productions
April
Productions is grateful to TPM
for its effectiveness,
professionalism and
friendliness. It’s been a
pleasure working with you Andy,
Kendra, Jenn, Ryan, Taylor,
David, Colin
Thank You: Anne Szumigalski,
Tibor Feheregyhazi, Elisabet
Rafols, Tom Bentley, Chris
Abraham, Jan Komarek, Jelena
Djuric, Andjelija Djuric, Cylla
von Tiedemann, Elif Isikozlu,
Eric Coates and the Blyth
Festival
Special Thanks: Bojana and Jeff
Smith, Vesna Kopunovic, Ici
Paris, Branislav Rusic, Dusan
Petricic, Gordan Petricic,
Joanne Mackay Bennett |
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