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Three Weïrd Sisters
First Workshop Production. Theatre Erindale Beck Festival 2025. Production video available below. Currently in development for future full-length production. Written by Maggie Tavares. Directed by Sofia Garcia. “Fire, twisted into catharsis and liberation” … “Incredibly relevant” … “Provocative.” SYNOPSIS:Backstage at the Ottawa Shakespeare Festival’sMacbeth. Three witches. Three sisters. Three women too young to be Lady Mac.Three women in a production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth are forced to reckon with their futures as actors and the industry’s perception of them when a mid-show mishap traps them in a room with no exit. As the women try and find their way out to continue the show, they discover that the walls blocking them from their idea of success are more systemic than physical.“Lady Macbeth is my Moscow!!!”“We want to explore the limitless possibilities of a woman’s life onstage. We want to get violent because we face violence.”“When you finally get to that place, you get to face real scrutiny for fictional opinions.” CAST:Olivia Sgambelluri (CLEO / WITCH 1)Aria DeCastro (LILLIAS / WITCH 2)Maggie Tavares (ADRIANNE / WITCH 3)Vanessa Whyte (JENNIFER / HECATE)Olivia Phillips (BRIANNA / ASM)CREW:Sofia Garcia – DirectorShunsho Ando Heng – Stage Manager / Lighting DesignJoana Arriola – Assistant DirectorJuno Elliott – Assistant Stage ManagerPhotos and video by Clarc Manglicmot
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Four Boobs on a Rooftop
First Workshop Production. Theatre Erindale Beck Festival 2024. Production video available below. Currently in development for future full-length production.Written by Maggie Tavares,Directed by Maggie Tavares “Hauntingly real and surreal” … “Deeply and formally EXCITING!” … “Relatable as fuck” SYNOPSIS:Both 28 years old in the year 2000,Freya and Eve are at pivotal moments in their lives—Eve has just (reluctantly)broken up with a long-term boyfriend and Freya wants to settle down andhave a child. As the two women lounge, they talk of cats, poetry, and menbefore drifting off into dreams that reflect their inner desires throughstylistic methods of absurdism and metatheatre, bookended by realism.“Brushing their fur is the closest we’ve gotten to washing the feet of God”“Every time I wake up, I feel like something has been taken from me. Forcefully”“I feel her like a phantom limb”CAST:Olivia Sgambelluri (FREYA)Aria DeCastro (EVE)Sofia Garcia (DESIRE)CREW:Emma Scoble – Stage ManagerShunsho Ando Heng – Lighting Design/OpClarc Manglicmot – Photographer