7 Important Things
7 Important Things by Sto Union, (Canada). In this final installment of the ‘How Can We Live?’ trilogy, writer/director Nadia Ross collaborates with George Acheson, who, at the age of sixteen, was kicked out of his house because he would not cut his hair. Now a barber by profession currently living and working in a small village in Quebec, George faces the irony of his fate and looks to the past in an attempt to reconcile a life profoundly marked by the times.
Information
(Objekt ID 3037)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | October 23, 2009 |
| Produced by | |
| In collaboration with | |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Theatre, Biographical theatre, Multimedia, Music |
| Website | Sto Union |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | No |
Born in 1950, George was an active participant in two counter-cultural movements of the last half of the 20th century. He immersed himself in the social and political upheavals of the 1960’s and, after the movement fizzled out, he found himself working in London, England just as the Punk movement was starting to build.
George has spent his life trying to find for himself a ‘way to live’ in a society he feels no kinship with. As he states: “democracy never worked for me, nobody I ever voted for got in”. Now in his mid-fifties, George sees himself as an invisible, generic, middle-aged man. And as such, he has a story to tell.
Source: BIT Teatergarasjen Meteor 2009. 10.08.2010: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| George Acheson | – Text |
| Nadia Ross | – Text |
| George Acheson | – Concept/Idea |
| Nadia Ross | – Concept/Idea |
| Nadia Ross | – Direction |
| Rob Scott | – Direction |
| Barry Padolsky | – Stage design |
| Andy Tait | – Costume design |
| Steve Lucas | – Lighting design |
| George Acheson | – Performer |
| Nadia Ross | – Performer |
| Rick Ritza | – Mask design |
| Richard Desrochers | – Technical director |
| Sarah Rogers | – Tour manager |
| Nadia Ross | – Tour manager |
| March 2, 2011 18:00 – Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater (Marstrand) | visiting performance |
| March 1, 2011 18:00 – Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater (Marstrand) | visiting performance |
| March 2, 2010 18:00 – Lille scene (Marstrandgata), Black box teater (Marstrand) | visiting performance |
| October 24, 2009 18:00 – Studio USF, USF Verftet (METEOR) | visiting performance |
| October 23, 2009 18:00 – Studio USF, USF Verftet (METEOR) | National premiere, Norway |