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Tomorrow’s Child 

Immersive sound experience for blindfolded audience

Audience memebers are blindfolded and led into an unknown space where they sit on a swivel chair. They hear children playing around them and are then taken on a 40 minute journey into the retro future world of Ray Bradbury’s Tomorrow’s Child

AWARDS

Best Technical Design (Matthew Waddell), 2014 Calgary Critics Awards
Nomination - Best Creative Concept , 2014 Calgary Critics Awards
Nomination - Outstanding Sound Design Or Composition (Matthew Waddell and Eric Rose), 2015 Betty Mitchell Awards
Nomination -  Outstanding New Play, 2015 Betty Mitchell Awards

PRODUCTION HISTORY

March 2014: Premiered in Calgary at the West Village Theatre, as part one of Ghost River Theatre’s Six Senses Performance Series.  
September 2014: Beakerhead Festival, University of Calgary
January 2016: High Performance Rodeo, Vertigo Studio Theatre, Calgary
April 2016: The West Village Theatre, Calgary (with the support of Willow Park School)
August 2016:  SummerWorks Festival, Toronto (part of the National Presentation Series)
February 2017: Undercurrents Festival, Ottawa
October 2017 - West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg (Presented by Theatre Projects Manitoba)
March 2018 - Presented by The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, BC
March 2018 - Presented at The Belfry Theatre’s SPARK Festival, Victoria, BC


CREDITS

Adapted from the Ray Bradbury story, Tomorrow's Child, by Matthew Waddell, Eric Rose and David van Belle
Direction and Sound Design: Eric Rose and Matthew Waddell
Assistant Direction: Evan Medd,
Production Intern: Gillian Clark
Original Music: Jesse Osborne-Lantheir and Sarah Albu
Sculpture: Emily Promise Allison
Assistant Mechs: Sydney Greene,  Laura Anzola, Tom Cainer, Steven Evanik
SummerWorks Producers: Ayla Stephen and Ava Jane Markus
Presented at SummerWorks in partnership with Dual Audio, Koffler Centre for the Arts and Norton Rose Fulbright

Special Thanks:  Ann Connors, Mandy Dale, Caitlin Gallichan-Lowe, Laura Anzola, City of Calgary.

Featuring
Tyrell Crews as Peter
Anna Cummer as Polly
David van Belle as Dr. Wolcott
Wren van Belle & Aubery Hall as Py
Additional Performers: Aaron Zeiffer, Helen Knight, Joleen Ceraldi, Evan Medd, Eric Rose, Matthew Waddell, Molly-Raine Dale

Link:
Tomorrow’s Child (GRT website)
Audio Trailer (vimeo)