Graduating class performances
ShareNew Words Festival 2013 - Model Wanted
By Step Taylor (Playwriting, 2013)
Directed by Ruth Madoc-Jones (Acting, 1993)
of performances
from April 29 to May 4, 2013
Monday April 29: 7:30 pm
Wednesday May 1: 9 pm
Thursday May 2: 6:30 pm
Friday May 3: 9 pm
Saturday May 4: 2 pm
Studio Hydro-Québec
1182, St. Laurent Blvd., Montreal
St. Laurent or Place d'Armes Metro
Montreal, April 17, 2013 – Presented from April 29 to May 4 at the Studio Hydro-Québec of the Monument-National, the National Theatre School of Canada's New Words Festival 2013 features new plays by the two 2013 graduating playwrights that deal in different ways with the consequences of being trapped in one's own life. Model Wanted by Step Taylor is directed by Ruth Madoc-Jones (Acting, 1993) and You Can Do Whatever You Want by Jesse Stong is directed by Emma Tibaldo (Directing, 2003). On stage and backstage, the 2013 Acting, Production, and Set and Costume Design graduating classes in the final public performance of their NTS training.
About Model Wanted
Ross is a bright, good-looking 17-year-old on the verge of graduating high school. So why is he drunk and naked at a stranger's house the night before his last exam? And why is he holding a bloody pair of scissors? Model Wanted is a fierce examination of poverty, sexuality, drugs, homophobia, and class that forces us to ask what role society's norms play in shaping its so-called monsters.
About Step Taylor, playwright
Playwright Step Taylor found the seed for Model Wanted, which he wrote under the dramaturgical guidance of Brendan Healy (Directing, 2005), in a news story out of Saint John, New Brunswick. A young man looking for odd jobs online ended up at a 29 year-olds house, where he received money and a 12-pack of beer to pose for photos. "The details of the crime are sketchy. But the kid ended up stabbing the man and leaving him for dead. I felt compelled to explore what might lead a person so young and with so much of his life ahead of him to lash out like that. In the end, it's not that easy to explain. The play is very much about the human complexities that go into such a violent act," says Step.
Cast
2013 Graduating Actors
Grace Fitzpatrick
Jesse LaVercombe
Alyx Melone
Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski
Julie Trépanier
Design/Production Team
Shlomit Gopher
Set Design
Ann Simard
Costume Design
Elizabeth Kantor
Sound Design
Gal Minnes
Lighting Design
Emily Iselmoe
Video Design
Kaitlin Hickey
Production Manager
Crystal Laffoley
Stage Manager
Andrew Leeke
Technical Director