Wax Works Productions Presents:
New Voices, an evening of readings from first-time
novelists.
Hear Canada's next generation of writers first.
This unusual evening promises to be easy to enjoy. Listen with your eyes and hearts to these 5 new voices from the literary scene as they invite you into their created worlds with words that fly and dive, sigh and cry, crackle and caress. Join writers Diane Flacks (also acting as the charming, witty MC for the night) Ruth Marshall, Nick Pemberton, Anne Perdue and Sarah Weatherwax for a super cool, one night only gig that smoothes out the lines between literature and theatre. Like books on tape, only way better.
Excerpts from:
The Good Son (Diane Flacks), a modern family story thrown into chaos by biblical hallucinations and implications. Gella, a tiny, fierce and funny WWII survivor, has a schizophrenic grandson named Byron who sees angels. And then her grand daughter Rachel starts to share those visions;
All Souls Waiting Room (Ruth Marshall), about Carrie, abandoned by husband and nanny on the same day, and Pretty, a mighty woman with a baby in her belly and a six year old in her duffel bag;
The Children of the Amulets (Nick Pemberton), about Jenny and Paul, two very different children brought together by their special powers and pursued by something they can't see or hear – only feel – and won't necessarily remember;
The Escapists (Anne Perdue), the story of Doug & Sharlene from Maple Ridge, B.C., who are on an all inclusive two-week holiday. Despite best intentions, the vacation starts to derail and we're too close for comfort as it all begins to go gloriously, hellishly wrong;
and The Shape of Time (Sarah Weatherwax), the story of Emma, a forty year old late night donut waitress, who doesn't know if her childhood diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenic, leading to years of hospitalization, is accurate, but does know that time is not linear. It's merely a way to make sense of chunks of space so we think we know something.
This event is especially intended to interest people from the publishing community. Literary agents, reviewers, publishers, editors are most specifically invited. Contact info for all writers will be made available. Feel free to contact producer Sarah Weatherwax (phone# 416-466-5710, e-mail sweatherwax@rogers.com) with any questions, before or after the event. Reservation requests (2 per person) from professionals in the publishing/literary industry are welcome until Nov 21.
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 8PM. Free Times Café, 320 College Street. PWYC.
Full table and bar service and an excellent menu available.
Come early for a good seat.
Listen. Laugh. Cry. Eat. Drink. Not necessarily in that order.
Enter five imagined worlds in a unique approach to
writing as a
living, breathing, physical and vocal experience.
