>X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 6 18:42:41 1999 >Mailing-List: ListBot mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Ishbel Kargar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Fw: NEWS ON midwifery play, SINGING THE BONES! >Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:40:11 +0100 >Organization: ARM >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 > >UK midwives and consumers mailing list. ARM website address: - http://www.radmid.demon.co.uk/midwives.html > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Caitlin Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: 06 July 1999 06:55 >Subject: NEWS ON midwifery play, SINGING THE BONES! > > >Dear friends in midwifery: > >Exciting news on my play: SINGING THE BONES! > >________________________________________________________________ > >SINGING THE BONES >internationally acclaimed play adapted to the screen > > >SINGING THE BONES, Caitlin Hicks' popular play about birth, >midwifery and modern medicine which played to standing ovations >in California,the UK and Sweden in 1997 and 1998, has been adapted >to the screen and will be shot on location on The Sunshine Coast >of British Columbia, Canada, just outside Vancouver. >Produced in affiliation with Third Coast Theatre, >with a screenplay by director /visual artist Gordon Halloran, >SINGING THE BONES stars Caitlin Hicks as Meg, the midwife who >tells the controversial story of the home birth of twins. >Hicks also takes on the identity of the two other main characters >in this experimental film to be shot in Digital Video. >This multiple layering of the material challenges >traditional film storytelling, expanding film conventions. >Shooting begins July 7th. > >Local filmmaker Ben Ged Low, who has shot, scored, directed, >written and produced close to 200 films and videos, will act as >Director of Photography and Editor in this feature-length >project. Gordon Halloran & Caitlin Hicks are producers, in >affiliation with Third Coast Theatre Arts Society. Halloran also >acts as director, screenwriter and Production Designer on the local >shoot. Halloran is well-known across Canada as creator of >The Ice Painting Project. > >SINGING THE BONES is the story of three women: Meg, the passionate >midwife who believes in women's ultimate power in birth; Nicole, >the strong and vulnerable mother searching for a birth experience >uninterrupted by modern medicine, and Sara, the compassionate >obstetrician. As Nicole's pregnancy is discovered to be high risk, >Meg must discover: is one woman's choice worth the chance that her >babies may die? > >Controversial, thought provoking and inspirational, "Singing The >Bones" weaves childhood trauma, the scars of war and the violence >of birth into a rich tapestry of transformation and redemption. > >SINGING THE BONES was first produced as a play by Caitlin Hicks >in Sechelt at The Rockwood Centre in 1992, and published by Playwrights >Union of Canada in 1997. Three monologues from the play were published >in the New York publication, "The Best Women�s Stage Mononlogues of 1997." >The Sunshine Coast, whose beaches and forests are well known to Canadians >as the home of the long-running series �Beachcombers� will serve as the >dramatic backdrop for the filmic story. The video-for-film will feature >a cast of 25. > >The play toured to excellent reviews in California in Spring, 1998, >visiting five cities: Beverly Hills, Santa Barbara, Chico, Eureka and >Redway. In the fall of O98,SINGING THE BONES played to critical >acclaim in London, Cambridge, Manchester, Sheffield, Devon (England), >and Gothenberg, & Stockholm, (Sweden), . > >In 1997, the play toured to Stockholm, (Sweden), Bellevue (Washington, >USA), Glenwood Springs, (Colorado), and Calgary & Edmonton, (Alberta, >Canada). The play was highlighted at the 4th International Women >Playwrights Festival in Galway, (Ireland) and presented at the Women & >Texts Conference at the University of Leeds, (England), and was also >performed in Birmingham, Manchester and Hereford. > >Sara Davies, producer of the event at Salford University, wrote: > >�...many of us felt it was the most powerful and important play we >had ever had the good fortune to attend...The issues dealt with in >�SINGING THE BONES� really need to be thought about and discussed >in this country.� > >The play received Honorable Mention in Wharf Rat�s 1997 International >Playwriting Contest �Crossing Borders�. > > >In Canada contact: THIRD COAST THEATRE (604) 886-3634 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > web page: www.artsynergy.com > > >========================================================== >From >Ishbel Kargar SRN SCM >Admin. Secretary >The Association of Radical Midwives >62 Greetby Hill, Ormskirk, Lancashire, L39 2DT, UK >Please visit our website: www.radmid.demon.co.uk/midwives.htm > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/ > > ******************************************************************************** Denise Hynd, Midwife, Lactation Consultant in Private Practice 173 Wilding Street, Doubleview (Perth) WA 6018 Phone (08) 9446 1917 Email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> **************************************************************************** **** -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
