Staged Reading: Hot Pink by Alison Louder
Alison Louder
Hot Pink premiered during the 2010 Festival St Ambroise Fringe de Montréal, where it was named runner-up for the Next Stage Award. The script has been in revision for the past three years, its latest inception being made possible with the generous help of MainLine Theatre and a Jeunes Volontaires grant from Emploi Québec. The reading will feature a pre-show exhibit and a post-show question period with the audience.
SYNOPSIS : Eighteen year-old Lindi is a homeless runaway with a frightening secret. When her survival instinct is pushed as far as it can go, will the voices in Lindi’s head help her face the truth or send her spiraling into madness?
Written and performed by Alison Louder.
Post-reading audience feedback facilitated by Amy Blackmore.
Exhibit at 7pm, show at 8pm.
ADMISSION : Pay What You Can!
$10 donation suggested – 25% of all proceeds will be donated to Dans La Rue. Please visit www.danslarue.com.
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ALISON LOUDER is a triple threat actress, alumni of Montreal’s Dome Theatre and New York’s Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, and an active member of MainLine Theatre’s Board of Directors since 2006. She is also a familiar face on television, appearing as Emily on SyFy’s BEING HUMAN for three seasons. She is ranked #4 Best Actress in the 2013 Best Of Montreal poll. Alison has worked on the development of several new Canadian plays at Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal and Canada’s National Theatre School since 2008. She took on Ariel Dorfman’s SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER as Assistant Director and Producer in 2009, pushing it to a sold-out Montreal premiere and critical acclaim. She made her one-woman show debut with HOT PINK in 2010, and is currently working on two new scripts; plus post-production for her first short film, DON'T CRAMP MY STYLE!, shot in February 2013.
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Hot Pink was first presented at the Portuguese Association in Montreal, on 12 June 2010, with the following cast and team:
LINDI : Alison Louder
Directed by : Heidi Hawkins
Stage management & puppeteering by : Angela Potvin
Choreography by : Allison Elizabeth Burns
Lighting design by : Emoli Thorne
Sound design by : Leon Louder
Featuring the Voices of Michelle Boback Toufexis and James Louder; and music by Alison and Leon Louder, Bones Malones, Bent By Elephants,
David Simard, Jake Smith & Vowel Movement.
HORAIRE / SCHEDULE
- Monday 23 September 2013 / 19:00
180 minutes
Pas de retardataires / No latecomers
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