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Jason Cadieux

JASON CADIEUX

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Jason Cadieux's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Jason Cadieux's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         175         Hardways         Scenic View

175

Synopsis:
It began in Ontario, when an actress asked playwright Jason Cadieux to write something 'with just me and a stool', and from such humble beginnings it's become something subtly devastating. Central to its imagery is the Ironman Triathlon, in which a young woman is competing to blot out the pain of her husband's death. Yet there's nothing bleak about this hour-long monologue - it's an enjoyably artful piece of theatrical storytelling, which certainly deserves larger audiences than were there the night I went to see it. Stephanie Jones first appears - as she requested -crouching on a stool in suffocating darkness. as the lights rise she tells a story about the first time she fainted. It's in a biology class at school, where a dummy called George is having all his organs unhooked from inside his body. She volunteers to be the child who puts back his heart, but once she's holding it she panics and blacks out. Strangely, as in Tim Crouch's 'an Oak Tree', the death central to the narrative takes place when a car crushes a pedestrian (here her husband training for the marathon) against an oak tree. '17.5' is very different, but comes from a similar tradition of serious playfulness. Interspersed between such lightly comic stories as her first fainting incident are simple spellbinding effects. a fishtank lit green from underneath becomes the pool where she met her husband, a tiny toy car helps recreate his death.
- Rachel Halliburton, Time Out London

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Organisations:
essential Collective Theatre Company

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Genre:
chamber theatre Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Hardways

Synopsis:
Jack a Canadian finds himself in an interrogation room with a light shining in his face. He has been caught trying to smuggle $17,000 out of Canada and into the States. Every time he does not tell the truth part of the floor falls away

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1st Produced:
SummerWorks Festival     2007

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Music:
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Genre:
Monologue play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Scenic View

Synopsis:
Romance blossoms when two actors are rehearsing a scene from Clifford Odet's "Golden Boy"

Notes:
Written by Jason Cadieux and Stephanie Jones

1st Produced:
Helen Gardner Playhouse, Toronto     1998

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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