Talisman Theatre

	Rock,Paper,Jackknife... Written by Marilyn Perreault Translated by Nadine Desrochers Directed by Emma Tibaldo October 12 to 26th, 2009 Tuesday to Saturday at 8:00 pm matinees on Saturdays at 2:00 pm Theatre to be determined Montreal Tickets: Adults: $25 - Students: $20 – Groups(10 or more): $17 Starring (in order of appearance in the play): Julie Tamiko Manning(Mielke) Stefanie Buxton (Ali) Éloi ArchamBaudoin (Iourded) and 2 actors to be determined Lyne Paquette, Set/Costume Designer David Perreault Ninacs,Lighting Designers Michael Leon, Sound Designer Mireille Couture, Video an Visual Designer Rasili Botz, movement coach A Talisman Theatre Production. Inspiration images & Preliminary maquettes
ROCK,PAPER,JACKKNIFE... About the play: ROCK,PAPER,JACKKNIFE... was written following Perreault's experience in Northern Quebec, 'Rock, Paper, Jackknife...' is also influenced by the tragedies at Columbine, Dawson, and Virginia Tech. This play is not about everyday events, but of extremes--of alienation, isolation, and despair.

	Marilyn Perreault PLAYWRIGHT Photo credit Isabel Zimmer
MARILYN PERREAULT Since her graduation from Saint-Hyacinthe Cégep, in 1997, the actress has participated in many creations by DynamO Théâtre. Marilyn is an award-winning Quebecois playwright, the author of four plays, and a founding partner with Annie Ranger of Theatre I.N.K. Perreault's first play 'Les Apatrides' won two 'Masques' for 'révélation de l'année' for its boldness and the success of its theatrical realisation". 'Roche, Papier, Couteau...' (2007) was acclaimed by critics as a second star blazing along the same trajectory.

	Nadine Desrochers TRANSLATOR
NADINE DESROCHERS holds a Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Ottawa. Her acting career led her to the stages of the National Arts Centre, the Great Canadian Theatre Company, the Théâtre du Trillium, as well as to different television roles and appearances. She has lectured at the University of Ottawa and at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and has been a journalist for Radio-Canada. From 2001 to 2006, she was a dramaturg at CEAD (Centre des auteurs dramatiques), where she worked with playwrights Olivier Choinière, Daniel Danis, Stéphane Hogue, and Marilyn Perreault, among others; she was also responsible for international projects, overseeing translations in French, English and Spanish for such institutions as the Royal National Theatre (London), the Abbey Theatre (Dublin), Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal and the Centro Cultural Helénico (Mexico). Since leaving CEAD, she has continued to work with playwrights, translators and directors on a freelance basis.

	Stefanie Buxton Ali ACTOR
Stefanie graduated with distinction from Concordia University's Specialization in Theatre Performance. Selected theatre credits include: Lion In The Streets (Tableaux d'Hote), Short Story Long (Pumpkin Theatre), Down The Main Drag (Hatch Festival et Summerworks), girls!girls!girls! (Festival Theatre of the Americas and the Montreal Fringe). Selected film and television credits include: Sophie, Fries With That?, Wicker Park, Timeline, Tales from the Neverending Story. Stefanie also busies herself with performing voices for animation, working with new playwrights at Playwright's Workshop Montreal, teaching at the Actor's Studio Montreal and singing with a community choir.

	Julie Tamiko Manning Mielke ACTOR
Julie graduated from Dawson College's Professional Theatre Program (The Dome) in 1991 and has been part of the Montreal and Canadian theatre community as an actor and creator for the last 16 years. She most recently appeared on stage as an actor and dancer in The Place Between produced by Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto. Other companies she has worked with include: Chëyikwe Performance, Urban Ink Productions and Rumble Theatre in Vancouver and Teatro Comaneci, Projet Porte Parole, Imago Theatre, PWM, Black Theatre Workshop, The Other Theatre and Geordie Productions in Montreal. She has performed twice at the Festival de Théâtre des Amériques with girls! girls! girls! by Greg MacArthur and Burning Vision by Marie Clements. She has also been a part of The Magnetic North Theatre Festival and was invited last year to perform a one-woman show reading of Skim by Mariko Tamaki at Vancouver's Powell Street Festival. She is presently finishing her first play, Mixie and the Halfbreeds, co-written with Vancouver theatre artist Adrienne Wong, to be produced in the Spring of 2009 by NeWorld Theatre in Vancouver. She will be performing next in Scapegoat Carnivale Theatre's production of Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca.

	Éloi ArchamBaudoin Iourded
A graduate of the National Theater School of Canada’ Acting Program in 2004, Éloi is a very versatile actor, perfectly bilingual; he works both in French as in English (under the pseudonym of Ellis Arch). He has performed in over forty plays, namely Frères de sang at Duceppe in the spring 2006, where he was the Narrator. In 2007 he played the role of Iourded in the French production of Roche, papier, couteau… by Marilyn Perreault. His good comic sense was obvious in his brilliant TV series performance in Les hauts et les bas by Sophie Paquin, Les Bougon and 3 x rien. He also was in the mini-serie René, broadcast in English and in French on CBC. In 2008, Eloi will continue touring Ah, la vache! created at Maison Théâtre last year and considered as one of the top 10 shows of 2007 by La Presse.

	Emma Tibaldo Director
Emma Tibaldo is a graduate of Concordia’s Theatre Department and the National Theatre School’s Directing program, where she continues to be a guest artist. She has recently been appointed Artistic and Executive Director at Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal where she had been the dramaturg in residence for three seasons. Most recently she has directed Get Stuffed by Alexis Diamond for Tapestry Opera Works, Lifedream by Herménégilde Chiasson, translated by Jo-Anne Elder for the NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival in New Brunswick, The Queens by Normand Chaurette, translated by Linda Gaboriau for Concordia University. For Talisman Theatre Emma directed That Woman by Daniel Danis, translated by Linda Gaboriau which was recently nominated for the Prix de la critique for the 2007-2008 season by L'Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre (AQCT). She has been dramaturg and director for staged readings at numerous festivals across the country.

	Lyne Paquette Set and Costume Designer
Lyne is a founding partner of Talisman Theatre. A graduate of the National Theatre School, theatre design is Lyne's second career. She continues to develop her theatre training with puppetry workshops and recently completed a three-month internship at Michael Curry Design, designers of puppetry for The Lion King, Disney, and Cirque du Soleil. Since 2004 Lyne has designed for many theatre, dance, and operetta productions in Montreal. Prior to that Lyne was an Assistant Designer at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. She has designed set and costumes for Talisman productions since 2005. www.lynepaquette.com Recent reviews refer to Lyne's "stunning sets" (The Hour) as "at once restrained and poetically extravagant" (The Gazette) and which demonstrate "what good (REALLY good) set design is capable of doing" (Orcasound).

	Michael Leon Sound Designer
Michael is a Montréal-based historian and composer/sound designer. Recent works have included sound for Pressing, an installation piece for the Summerworks Theatre Festival, music and sound for a series of residencies for Press at the Theatre Centre in Toronto and the Sour Brides production of Trout Stanley in Whitehorse, and sound design for Teesri Duniya’s Montréal production of Miss Orient(ed). As a founding member of Johnny 2000 Arts Collective, he has composed music and performed in numerous theatre, film and performance projects throughout Canada. Michael designed music and sound for Talisman’s production of That Woman.

	David Perreault Ninacs Lighting Designer
Since graduating from NTS a few years ago, David has designed some 30 theatre shows and done lighting for visual arts shows, corporate galas, dance and musical shows; as well as designing domestic lamps. After all of this, he still enjoys light in all its forms.

	Mireille Couture Video an Visual Designer
Mireille designed the video projections for the Talisman production of That Woman at The bain St-Michel last year. She recently completed at the L'Institut national de l'image et du son(INIS) an intensive documentary film program. She is presently creating web capsules for Ça manque à ma culture and code Chasteney, both broadcasted at Télé-Québec. The process that she is developping with film is a prolongation of her photographic approach. A theatrical setting offers her a unique opportunity to unite both mediums in one same creative stream.

	Rasili Botz Movement Coach
Born in the Loire Valley in France, Rasili moved to Montreal 3 years ago. She studied Butoh for many years: Mai Juku with Tanaka Min, long cycles of workshops with Katy Roulaud’s body labs with many Butoh dancers from different countries, in Montréal with Martine Viale. Rasili created two solos: En Chair et en Os, based on Phil Mullroy’s drawings and Valse Rouge. She was a Danceactor in films by Karim Hussain and Benjamin Guéguenne. Rasili was Movement Coach for Talisman’s production of That Woman by Daniel Danis.

	Tanner harvey Co-Director of Talisman Theatre and show Technical Director
Tanner Harvey co-director of Talisman and show Technical Director Since graduating from the University of Victoria in 04, Tanner has worked in the theatre in variety capacities: as a technician for The Belfry, Surrey Arts Centre, Infinitheatre; director for The King of Fifteen Island (Two-Wheeler Productions), The Serpent and rtrn2sndr (4horsemen productions); assistant director for Happy Days (NAC), The Little Years (NAC/Neptune), Past Perfect (Tarragon), The Lab (Theatre SKAM); dramaturgy for John Gabriel Borkman (Soulpepper/Theatre Columbus); lighting design for Living with Rick (Two-Wheeler Productions). Tanner joined up with Talisman after meeting Lyne and Emma during last season's That Woman and is currently the head technician of Centaur's C1.