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Crazy: One Woman's Search for Sanity
A nightmare, a steam cleaner, a bike ride, a bunny, a very short tune and a very long list. Crazy is an autobiographically-based multimedia performance pondering, staring at, and jamming with the experiences of anxiety and depression.
In addition to the one-hour performance, we are also offering a post-show discussion with community panelists, a one-hour talk with the artist including three excerpted monologues (suitable for classroom conversations or smaller group meetings), residencies with the artist to create autobiographically-based performance work around mental health issues, and a one-three hour creative arts/dialogue workshop exploring the place of anxiety and depression in contemporary life. Please contact our manager to discuss custom packages, rates, and block booking discounts.
For more information
contact Third Story Window at (514) 389-4231
or email Manager Jonathan Himsworth at jonathan@thirdstorywindow.com
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Recent performance projects
Crazy, Vermont tour in collaboration with VSA Arts of Vermont, April 2007-May 2008
This project, funded by the Vermont Community Foundation, was designed to unravel stigma associated with mental illness. We combined presentation of the play with a post-show panel discussion and a creative arts workshop. We toured to five educational institutions and collaborated with community members engaged with mental health work as panelists. The workshop, developed in partnership with Amy Stuart, M.S.W., was a key element in involving audience members with the subject matter on a much deeper and more personal level. It was also terrific fun and very moving.
Performance venues: UVM College of Medicine, CCV Burlington, CCV St. Albans, University of Southern New Hampshire Graduate Program in Community Mental Health, Vermont College Master of Education program.
Crazy VSA/VT tour testimonials
- Yasmine Ziesler, Coordinator of Academic Services, CCV Burlington
I liked the three parts; the order was good to build up comfort level. The impact of the workshop was powerful and observable. People were clearly moved by the activities.
- Tammie Consejo, Professor of Psychology, CCV St. Albans
Everyone was able to share honestly and was able to be heard.
- Hope Love, student, CCV St. Albans
So raw it made my heart hurt!
- student, CCV Burlington
I learned that it’s all right to say what’s bothering you and ask questions about your own condition and problems and how they may relate to depression. I would recommend this program because it lets people open up about their own experiences with depression and anxiety.
- Nick Simon, student, CCV Burlington
This was great! It has inspired me to want to get help when I’m down. It made me aware there are other people in my own community struggling like me.
- Krista Florio, student, CCV St. Albans
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Amazing how a group of near strangers can relate and grow in a single evening.
- student, CCV St. Albans
I liked how interactive it was, it got everyone involved. It also clarified questions I had from personal experience.
- Brian Cunningham, student, CCV Burlington
Very uplifting.
- Stacy Dubuque, student, CCV Burlington
Unraveling Herstory
Collaboration with Common Thread Productions, May-September 2007; Montreal, QC
The goal of this project was to explore contemporary issues women face, including racism, sexism, homophobia, classism and family trauma by creating a play exploring ancestral stories. We began by forming a collective ensemble comprised of nine women, researched our individual stories and then developed them for the stage through different artistic media (music, dance, writing, drama, mask-making, video). A unique aspect of this project was the egalitarian power structure of the group and trying to learn how to function outside of the hierarchies we are used to. We presented our piece to the general public at Concordia University’s Cazalet Theater in Montréal.
