Irresistible Neighbourhoods

Walking on Water

2024-09-14 20:00 2024-09-15 22:00 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 NAC: Walking on Water

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/35932

In-person event

An NAC English Theatre / NAC Orchestra / NAC Digital Experience and Design Co-production Irresistible Neighbourhoods: Walking on Water cicadas
Written by David Yee
Music Composed by Chris Thornborrow
Directed by Nina Lee Aquino

In 2035, a podcaster investigating the mysterious disappearances that befell a young family a decade earlier near Toronto’s Trinity Bellwoods Park sets the scene for a suspenseful narrative about a very peculiar house. Could a...

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Fourth Stage,1 Elgin Street,Ottawa,Canada
September 14 - 15, 2024
September 14 - 15, 2024

≈ 90 minutes · With intermission

Last updated: September 15, 2024

Welcome to SPHERE 2024!

SPHERE celebrates the near-endless artistic and intellectual inspiration that our natural world awakens in us. Through the eyes, ears, and bodies of artists, and in this city at the confluence of rivers, we will explore the symbiosis between our creativity and the surroundings that catalyze it. We will reflect on our fragile relationship with Mother Earth and how the confluence of art, science, and ethics will inform the coming chapters in our shared history. As a wave of brilliant and visionary artists from across genres and generations sweeps into Canada’s National Arts Centre, we warmly invite you to join them and us on this journey of multi-disciplinary discovery and artistic dialogue.

Welcome to SPHERE 2024!

THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS

Thank you to our visionary donors Earle O’Born and Janice O’Born, C.M., O.Ont. for their generous support of SPHERE.

Irresistible Neighbourhoods: Walking on Water

An NAC English Theatre / NAC Orchestra / NAC Digital Experience and Design Co-production

For the second volume of Irresistible Neighbourhoods, English Theatre and the NAC Orchestra join forces as part of the NAC SPHERE Festival to present an intriguing double bill of live radio dramas offering glimpses of imagined futures for two neighbourhoods in Canada, and their evolving relationship with water.

cicadas
Written by David Yee
Music Composed by Chris Thornborrow
Directed by Nina Lee Aquino
Sound Design and Live Foley by John Gzowski

In 2035, a podcaster investigating the mysterious disappearances that befell a young family a decade earlier near Toronto’s Trinity Bellwoods Park sets the scene for a suspenseful narrative about a very peculiar house. Could a strangely luminous painting unlock long-buried secrets of what flowed beneath their home? 

The Woman of One Thousand Years
Written by Berni Stapleton
Music Composed by Duane Andrews
Directed by Sarah Kitz
Sound Design and Live Foley by John Gzowski

A lonely radio host, broadcasting from a far shore in Newfoundland, inadvertently opens a transmission portal between times. The story that unfolds offers an unforgettable journey from the past, to a life beyond the present, suggesting that everything we need to know is already in the air. Remembering the future is possible for all. 

Listen to the episodes from Irresistible Neighbourhoods Volume One: Ottawa 2044.

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    Playwright David Yee
  • christ-t
    Composer Chris Thornborrow
  • Director Nina Lee Aquino
  • Sound Designer and Live Foley John Gzowski
  • Janie Erica Anderson
  • Trim Zach Counsil
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    Ellis Paul Thomas
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    Clarinet / Bass Clarinet Shauna Barker
  • fred-lacroix-photo-william-meekins-2-e1612898539101
    Piano Frédéric Lacroix
  • Cello Daniel Parker
  • Percussion Nathan Petitpas
  • ric
    Dramaturg Ric Knowles
  • vicki-300x300
    Climate Dramaturg Vicki Stroich
  • Stage Manager Jackie McCormick

The Woman of One Thousand Years

  • berni-s
    Playwright Berni Stapleton
  • duane-a
    Composer Duane Andrews
  • sarahkitz-alejandrosantiago-6928-300dpi
    Director Sarah Kitz
  • Sound Designer and Live Foley John Gzowski
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    Margaret Daley, Eve-Lynn Deidre Gillard-Rowlings
  • Deb Anne Hamels
  • john-koensgen
    Dylan Carter John Koensgen
  • Viola Magali Gavazzi-April
  • Trumpet/Flugelhorn Amy Horvey
  • Double Bass Paul Mach
  • Cello Daniel Parker
  • ric
    Dramaturg Ric Knowles
  • vicki-300x300
    Climate Dramaturg Vicki Stroich
  • Stage Manager Jackie McCormick

Thank Yous

Berni Stapleton would like to thank Nina Lee Aquino, Duane Andrews, Nicole Smith, Andrew Loman, Pamela Halstead, Gwendolyn Adams, Sarah Kitz, Ric Knowles, Vicki Stroich, Judi Pearl, Jonathan Gibbons-Stapleton, Geraldine Stapleton.

David Yee would like to thank Andrew Chown, Mazin Elsadig, Vienna Hehir, Colin Rivers and Chris Thornborrow

Chris Thornborrow would like to thank Anna for the unwavering support and baby Liam, a force of nature whose arrival kept us all on our toes. 

The Company would like to thank Amahl Arulanandam, Laurie Champagne, Steph Chau, Andrew Chown, Mazin Elsadig, John Geggie, Geoff McBride, Erica Miller, Will Somers and Anthony Thompson.

The National Arts Centre is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres and engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

NAC Production - Fourth Stage

Technical Director
Peter Kealey

Lead Hand
Adriaanus Vanduyvenbode

Assistant Lead Hand
Jeremy Wynnyk

Ligthing Technician
Jeff Hannah

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees

Projectionists, Wardrobe Mistresses, Masters and Attendants are members of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 471. 

NAC English Theatre

Managing Director   
David Abel  

Artistic Director   
Nina Lee Aquino  

Learning Coordinator   
Aimee Bouchard  

ASL Interpreter Consultant   
Carmelle Cachero  

Marketing Strategist   
Bar Clement  

Communications Strategist   
Sean Fitzpatrick  

Senior Producer   
Alexandra Lunney  

Senior Marketing Manager   
Bridget Mooney  

Associate Producer, Artistic Programming and Environmental Projects  
Judi Pearl  

Technical Director
Eugenio Saenz Flores

Company Manager   
Samira Rose  

Administrative Coordinator   
Monika Seiler

NAC Orchestra

Managing Director
Nelson McDougall

Music Director
Alexander Shelley

Senior Manager of Artistic Planning
Daphne Burt

Senior Marketing Manager
Christina Bellevue

Director of Communications, Programming
Mireille Allaire

Artistic Coordinator
Jérémie Gates

Marketing Strategist
Guillaume Lebreton

Communications Strategist
Noah Richardson

Artistic Coordinator
Polina Burdukova-Kemp

NAC DX + Design Team

Producer, Digital Experiences + Design
Marnie Richardson

Technical Director, Digital Experiences + Design
Martin Jones

Graphic Designer, Digital Experiences + Design
Dany Pepin

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees