Cleave

Production Management/Sound Design | Produced by Tiny Bear jaws and Presented by Fringe Theatre Adventures (Edmonton AB) in 2018

Written by Elena Belyea
Directed by Vanessa Sabourin
Produced, Sound Designed, Production Managed, and Artistic Associate by Tori Morrison
Assistant Director by Sydney Campbell
Technical Director by Marc Lavallée
Dramaturg by Emma Tibaldo
Assistant Producer by Ashleigh Hicks
Production Designer by Liza Xenzova
Assistant to the Production Designer: Sarah Karpyshin
Assistant to the Production Designer: Caro Vanrensburg
Stage Manager by Lisa Dalmazzi
Assistant Stage Manager by Erin Hayes
Consultant Aaron Witherspoon
Poster Design by Meags Fitzgerald
Promotional Photos by Mat Simpson

For 17-year old intersex Aaron, the new school year means a new chance at life. For Pina, another shot at head cheerleader. For Mark, open season. A stranger intersects with a family in exile from itself. Parents Paul and Carol struggle to keep secrets from their children, desperate to know the truth. Like a surgeon’s knife before a first incision, the scalpel is poised and ready to slice.

SELECTED PRESS
“Cleave: to hold together. Cleave: to separate. The latest from Tiny Bear Jaws and its agile resident muse Elena Belyea, plays with this thought, so full of potential for comedy and its darker dramatic brethren, in a piece that frames the ancient dual quest for identity and connection in a contemporary way. “-Liz Nichols

Cleave, a sense of possibility in contradiction: a review of Tiny Bear Jaws’ latest