Cast


Percy Scott Eaton (2)
Playwright Jasmine Keck (2)
Actor 3 Mariah Olney (2)
Actor 4 Joie Ooi Jia Yi (3)
Actor 5 Aiden Maddison (3)
Actor 6 Emma Gustafson (3)
Actor 7 Cadence Brehaut (3)
() representive of year of drama program

Creative Team

Director Ken MacKenzie
Assistant Director Nicole Kidder
Set Design Carla Orosz
Costume Design Beverley Kobelsky
Lighting Design Katie Blackburn-Dust
Sound Design Carlos Martinez
Prop Design Brooklynn Bitner

Crew

Stage Manager Alida Schulhauser
Production Manager Ken MacKenzie
Head of Wardrobe Beverley Kobelsky
Costume Assistant Jordan Sherling
Head of Props Brooklynn Bitner
Props Assistant Jenna Stang
Head Carpenter Iain Rose
Lighting Crew DRAM 213:
Julian Ganseco
Gabe Martell
Alida Schulhauser
Lighting Operator Julian Ganseco
Sound Operator Carlos Martinez

Director's Notes

I keep telling the actors that in order to slow down, they're gonna have to speed up. 
Seems contradictory. 
One of the things that draws me to this story is that I think in a lot of ways, everybody in this story is telling the truth. There are inconsistencies and there are contradictions, but I think that everybody fundamentally believes that their cause is true. This play is a bit unknowable- and yet here in Saskatoon and at the Supreme court of Canada for that matter, this case has been decided by a majority. 
In conversation with some lawyers about this play, it was explained to me that the law isn't very good at dealing with new technology. 
Courts don't always fully understand what they're being asked to pass judgement on. But that might just be an expression of the fact that courts are made up of humans- or perhaps it's an expression of science being captured by financial interests.  
I've enjoyed spending time with this cast considering how this tiny little amendment to the genetic make-up of a crop, unseeable by the human eye, has such profound implications on the lives of billions: How we've ceded control of large parts of our natural environment while simultaneously gaining great control over other parts. We save through destruction and we destroy through the act of saving. 
We are complicated. 
I hope you enjoy our show. 

Dedication

Marilyn Adele MacKenzie 
1947-2024
To Life!

Playwright Biography

Annabel Soutar is a Montreal-based playwright and theatre producer. In 2000, she co-founded, with Alex Ivanovici, Porte Parole Productions whose mission is to produce entertaining documentary plays which create a transformational sense of civic engagement in its audiences. Annabel studied Theatre at Princeton University, earning a degree in directing and playwriting. Since 1998, she has written and/or produced several critically acclaimed and popular documentary plays including Novembre, Import/Export, Seeds, Sexy béton, The Watershed, Fredy, J’aime Hydro, The Assembly and Projet Polytechnique. In 2015, Annabel was named one of the Globe & Mail's Canadian Artists of the Year. In 2022 McGill University bestowed her with an Honorary Doctorate of Letters.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Edward and Bernadette Kobelsky, Luke von Eschen, Anna Yaworski and Persephone Theatre. Special thank you also to Rory Jewiss, Lawrence and Gwen Orosz, Wes Orosz, David Viczko, Gail McKenzie, Luke Muirhead, Adam Harrison, Graham Erker, and Daphne Hanneson.

Upcoming!

Line up of upcoming Greystone Theatre shows: Women of the Fur Trade, Brainstorm, and Mother's Daughter