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White Mice
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White Mice is a cartoon-like exposé of the virulent racism at the core of Canada. Robert and Douglas are two white-furred mice living in peacefully in downtown Toronto, until one day Robert begins coming home with more and more information concerning the state of racism in Canada. The two mice begin to question the function of racism, whiteness, and capitalism as they struggle to keep up with their rapidly expanding consciousness. Credits Written and directed by Darren O’Donnell, produced by Naomi Campbell, White Mice featured Bruce Hunter and Darren O’Donnell, with light designed by RS Armstrong, sound by Nick Murray (aka murr), costumes by SimJones Inc. and set by Darren O’Donnell and Naomi Campbell. It was first produced in 1998 and was nominated for six Dora Awards: outstanding play, production, direction, costumes, light, and received an award for set. It was presented in the 2000 du Maurier World Stage Festival, at Theatre Passe Muraille in the fall of 2000, in February of 2002 toured to One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo in Calgary, was co-presented in Vancouver by Rumble Productions and The Vancouver East Cultural Centre, and in Gatineau, Quebec by Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO). It was adapted for CBC Radio and published by Coach House Books in the spring of 2000 in a collection entitled Inoculations along with Over, Who Shot Jacques Lacan? and Radio Rooster Says That’s Bad Press "Brilliant conception...a highly amusing show and a provocative piece of theatre that insists on disturbing its audiences complacency." "... a play that makes equal grabs for mind and heart; it provokes and entertains and does both with cheeky intelligence.... You may well argue with some of O'Donnell's conclusions, but you'll be hard pressed to find faults in this meticulously designed and directed remount.... at once sympathetic, disturbing, and supremely funny." "A touch of the Three Stooges mixed with a pinch of Ren and Stimpy, just enough to bind the kind of bleak absurdist gruel that Beckett used in Endgame and Waiting for Godot." |
