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Northern Daughter | a powerful backwoods story with music, humour and grit
World Premiere at The Art Project, October 22-25, 2014
an Alvegoroot Theatre co-production

Co-written by Donna Creighton and Louise Fagan
Director - Louise Fagan
Stage Manager - Krisanne Nunes
Set Designer - Eric Bunnell
Lighting Designer - Karen Crichton
Sound Designer - Andrew Mawdsley
Costume Designer - Julie McGill

Theatre in London REVIEW of Northern Daughter
TOUR DATES in 2015
Colleening | a musical production based on the poetry of Colleen Thibaudeau

World Premiere of The Letters and Poems of Colleen Thibaudeau
An AlvegoRoot Theatre Company Production

March 1- 9, 2013
The Arts Project, London, ON.

Music by Stephen Holowitz and Oliver Whitehead
Poetry and Lyrics by Colleen Thibaudeau
Directed by Adam C. Holowitz
Performed by Donna Creighton, Paul Grambo, Chris McAuley and Patsy Morgan

Theatre in London REVIEW of Colleening 
Hearts Made Great

London Free Press REVIEW of Hearts Made Great 
By JAMES REANEY, FREE PRESS ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST

Sat. November 12, 2005
If you can't go tonight, go tomorrow afternoon or both.

One of the finest ways Londoners could ever salute the Year of the Veteran is on the stage at Centennial Hall this weekend.

Based on yesterday afternoon's presentation, Orchestra London's Hearts Made Great -- a fictional London region family's wartime saga in words and music, new and old -- is not to be missed. If you can't go tonight, go tomorrow afternoon -- or both times.

The music by composer and conductor Jeff Christmas and words by UWO grad Jennifer Venner call up a Remembrance Day universe of emotions -- sorrow, pride, fear, patriotism, hope and relief among them.

Hearts Made Great fulfills the ambitions of the orchestra's partnership with two London singers, Jo-Ann Lawton and Donna Creighton, two of Hearts Made Great's stars this weekend, and folk duo Sirens at other times.

Lawton, Creighton and the orchestra first discussed the idea of using music from the Second World War era in a concert setting.

Remarkably, Hearts Made Great grew into an original combination of period music from the 1940s, new compositions for the orchestra, powerfully restrained words, documentary touches and some glorious singing and playing.
 

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