This Winter Horse Trade and EXIT Theatre return to bring you a festival that is uncensored, unjuried and totally downtown.
Camouflage Productions Camouflage by Gail Roberts
|
 |
|
This Winter Horse Trade and EXIT Theatre return to bring you a festival that is uncensored, unjuried and totally downtown.
|
|---|
|
Camouflage: Who? -We all do it. What? -Disguise reality. Why? -Because it's easier. When? -Often. Where? -Everywhere. This one-woman play explores the dangers of camouflaging the truth, especially from yourself. Humour, pathos, raucous, gut wrenching, you'll laugh, you'll cry, it's better than sex.
| ||||||||||||||||
|
As we journey through life, how many of us hide within ‘tangled webs’ of deception? In her new play, CAMOUFLAGE, writer and actress Gail Roberts explores the pain of self-deception, and discovers it’s not as grim as she thought. In fact, the lengths we go to deceive ourselves can be downright funny…if it didn’t hurt so much!
Camouflage — With understated elegance, this one–woman retrospective explores the lies we tell others and ourselves. Writer/performer Gail Roberts looks back on her life while brilliantly portraying many of the characters she encounters. Poignant writing along with smooth performance and direction make for a lovely show from this Toronto company. [JSB] |
 |
Gail Roberts – Writer/Performer -- This is Gail’s first appearance in New York, and she is very happy that it is in her production of CAMOUFLAGE. As we know, roles disappear for the older actor, especially for women. Gail aims to craft plays for the more seasoned audience as well as to create work for more mature actors. Gail also wrote and performed in FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN, the story of Marlene Dietrich, which was produced in Toronto. Gail’s stage work includes The Daughters of Sheherzad, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Wedding Band, The Stronger, and Covey Farm Road, to name but a few. Film and television credits include The Listener, The Clock Is Ticking, Zen Turkey, and Life on Venus Ave. |
 Mark Schoenburg |
Past executive drama producer radio/tv for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, past film reviewer national/local for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Writer/Producer/ Director "Parallels" recently scheduled on The Movie Network, Canada; Founding Artistic Director, Theatre 3, Western Canada; Associate Artistic Director, The Citadel Theatre, Western Canada; Managing Artistic Director, The Sudbury Theatre Centre, Ontario; Artistic Director, Program Head, Professional Actor Training Program, Humber College, Toronto. |
|
Mark (stage manager) is thrilled to be a part of this production and to be working with Gail once again. Born in Canada, Mark has spent the past 25 years in New York where he studied acting with Robert “Bobby” Lewis, Walt Witcover, Anna Sokolow and Herbert Bergoff. He made his New York debut in the American premiere of Bertolt Brecht’s ROUNDHEADS AND PEAKHEADS (Saz). Other stage credits: P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD! (Vitto); LUV (Harry) and DIAL M FOR MURDER (with Gail). TV credits: LOVING (ABC-TV), SEARCH FOR TOMORROW (NBC-TV) and LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER “ROMEO AND JULIET”. Mark is a successful singer/songwriter, playwright and proud father of Natasha and Nadia. |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
