The Tower appeared. The world went dark. The Tower appeared. The world went dark. The Tower appeared. The world went dark. This is how it is. This is how it has always been… Everything Gone, Everything Shone is a wild odyssey to the origins of the universe—with gods, animals, and astrophysicists.

Created & Performed by: Nora Barker, Bénédicte Bélizaire, Jessica Rose, Juliette Diodati, Olaoluwa Fayokun, Dylan Hawco, Seeara Lindsay, Fatima Lopez, Mirza سرحان, Conor Wylie and Maiko Yamamoto

Direction & Text by: Maiko Yamamoto & Conor Wylie

** Audience Disclaimer: This production uses strobe lighting effects and theatrical haze.

Photos

Photo credits: Maxime Côté

A Word From Our Directors

We started working on this creation project at a very different time. Masks on, meters apart, doing our best to see/feel/hear each other, and to build a process of working together in the midst of high anxiety and fear, and a Montréal winter. Each time we would come back, the world would be in a different state, and we’d continue the work of getting to know each other and learning how to work together as best we could, until we had accumulated a wealth of material, ideas, dreams, expectations, perspectives, and hopes.

Over the last year, in pulling together the story of Everything Gone, Everything Shone, a strong sense of these remarkable young artists and what felt important to each of them was really evident; perhaps more so because we had met at such a strange time. We started with far-reaching source material; we wanted to use the idea of histories and mythologies, both shared and personal, as a way to understand where we came from, in order to collectively chart a path forward. The result is a wild and hybrid cosmology, woven from hundreds of I come froms, all swirling towards one big We’re heading to…

It was joyful to think of each of these students in shaping the work – they were brave and generous in creation, and they’re ready for whatever comes next.

Conor Wylie + Maiko Yamamoto

Team

CAST – Graduating Students

Nora Barker^A3Badger/Nora
Grand Falls-Windsor, NL
(Ktaqmkuk, unceded traditional Beothuk & Mi'kmaw territory)

Bénédicte Bélizaire^A3
The Supernatural / Nova
(Port-au-Prince, Haiti)

Juliette Diodati^A3
Hailey / Juliette
Montréal, QC
(Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehà:ka territory)

Olaoluwa Fayokun^A3
Wildwhitehairdo / Lu
Winnipeg, MB
(Treaty 1 Territory)

Dylan Hawco^A3
Madeira / Dylan
Cambridge, ON
(Haldlmand Treaty, Six Nations of the Grand River)

Seeara Lindsay^A3
Seeara
Pickering, ON
(Traditional Territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation and Williams Treaties signatories of the Mississauga and Chippewa Nation)

Fatima Lopez^A3
Luna / Fatima
Fight and Intimacy Captain
Buenos Aires, Argentina
(Günün a atük and Wallmapu territory)

Jessica Rose^A3
Ingrid / Jessica
Kitchener, ON
(Traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee Peoples)

Mirza سرحان^A3
Other Guy / Mirza
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia/Chikmagalur, India

CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM – Graduating Students

Matthew Lawler^PDTA3
Lighting Designer
Montréal, QC
(Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehà:ka territory)

Matt Lalonde^PDTA3
Video Designer
Waterloo, ON
(Traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples)

Delton Kreller^PDTA3
Sound Designer
Brandon, MB
(Treaty 2)

Lia Wright^PDTA3
Livestream Director
Montréal, QC
(Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehà:ka territory)

Saffiya Kherraji^SCD3
Set Assistant
Lindsay, ON
(Mississauga lands and the traditional territory covered by the Williams Treaties)

Pen Tsin^SCD3(they/them)
Costume Assistant
Montréal, QC
(Tiohtià:ke, unceded Kanien’kehà:ka territory)

Andrea McMillan^PDTA3
Production Manager
Châteauguay, QC
(Traditional territory of the Kanien'kehà:ka)

Alex Sinclair^PDTA3
Technical Director
Saint John, NB
(Menaquesk, unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Wabanaki (Dawnland Confederacy), the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kma’ki, Abenaki and the Passamaquoddy)

Bea Crowther^PDTA3
Assistant Technical Director
Lennoxville, QC
(Traditional and unceded territory of the Abenaki people and the Wabenaki confederacy)

May Nemat Allah^PDTA3
Stage Manager
Alexandria, Egypt

CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM – Professionals

Claire Macaulay (Set and Costume Design, 2022)
Set Designer

Vivienne Angélique (Set and Costume Design, 2022)
Costume Designer

Camille Walsh (Set and Costume Design, 2023)
Costume Assistant

CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM – Students

Zoe Daca^PDTA2
Assistant Lighting Designer

Katie Webb^PDTA1
Assistant Stage Manager

Joao Veloso^PDTA1
Assistant Stage Manager

Elizabeth Page^NP
Associate Assistant Technical Director

Alex Joyce^PDTA2
Head Carpenter

Eiden French^PDTA2
Head of Lighting

Bea Freedman^PDTA2
Head of Video

Alex Sykes^PDTA2
Head of Sound

Nezren Pittoors-McMahon^PDTA2
Head of Livestream

Dani Royer^PDTA1
Crew

Nicolas Noguera^PDTA1
Livestream Camera Operator / Crew

Max Malfara^PDTA1
Lighting Assistant / Crew

Sephora N’Kosi^PDTA1
Video Assistant / Crew

Amy Cuthbertson^PDTA1
Sound Assistant / Crew

Shivonne Stevens^PDTA1
Livestream Camera Operator / Livestream Assistant / Crew

Assistance in costumes, props and scenic paint shops
Tiphaine Bézie^SC1, Margot Bryson^SC1, Nila Dutton^SC1, Daria Famili^SC1, Maya Padlewska^SC1, Angeles Silva Lizarraga^SC1, Simone Turcotte^SC1, Mégan Vallée^SC1

COACHES

Andrea Lundy
Director of PDTA and Production Coach

Rebecca Harper
Movement

Nancy Benjamin
Voice

Jonathan Patterson
Music

Anita Nittoly
Fight Director & Intimacy Coach

Florence Cornet
Makeup

Angela Rassenti (Set and Costume Design, 2008)
Props

Tim Rodrigues (Production Design & Technical Arts, 2006)
Lighting Design

Andy Moro
Video Design

Troy Slocum
Sound Design

Jesse MacMillan
Livestream

Maria Popoff
Stage Management

Tiffany Ledesma (Production Design & Technical Arts, 2021)
Technical Direction

Véronique Pagnoux
Scenic Painting

Guillaume Simard (Création et production, 2010)
Master Carpenter

Christian Larochelle
Scene Shop Carpenter

Marjorie Lefebvre
Technical Coach

Jérémie Bérubé
Stage Carpenter

Francis Hamel (Création et production, 2011)
Head of Lighting

Bianca Bernier
Head of Sound

Michael Slack (Set and Costume Design, 2001) and Julia Metzger
Costume Project Managers

Marie-Hélène Gervais and Raphaelle Rieu
Seamstresses

Dates & location

From October 24 to 27 at 7:30 pm
October 28 at 1:00 pm

Length: 90 minutes

Hydro-Quebec Studio
Monument-National (St-Laurent metro)
1182 Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2X 2S5

Cast & creative team

Everything seen on stage and all that goes on behind the scenes is created by students in Production Design and Technical Arts, Set and Costume Design, and Acting, under the guidance of professional guest artists.

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Acknowledgments

Everything Gone, Everything Shone was created over the 3 years of the Acting Program. The work includes contributions from: Ariunzaya Unenbat, Michael Derworiz, Molly Munroe, Madi May and Sophie Dushko.

Thank you to Antoine Bedard and Theatre Replacement for the use of previous sound compositions which have been modified for this production.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The land on which we are gathered has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations. It is part of the traditional unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka, whose rich cultural heritage continues to teach us that respect, dialogue and peace are pillars of democratic governance.

Everything Gone, Everything Shone

From October 24 to 28, 2023