Home
A story from the lake
Premiere: Memorial Park Mississauga Waterfront Festival June 2017
Images by Gabriella Banks, Claire Lemiski, Rosemary Snell, Nakita Photography, Ken Snell and Noelle Hamlyn
Performers Colleen Snell and Andrew Gaboury
Home
Home is a multidisciplinary, site-specific reimagining of Port Credit’s nautical past. The production follows a captain and crew as they experience adventure, recount tales and explore the shores of the Great Lakes through music, dance and theatre.
Home was in part, a response to Canada’s 150th anniversary. Our collaborators visited Heritage Mississauga, met citizens, read local literature and engaged Heritage Mississauga Historian Matthew Wilkinson to develop a story based in local folklore, historical figures and key historic events. We drew inspiration from these sources to design our set based on the schooners of Port Credit’s stone-hooking trade, and our story, which drew on characters such as “Mad Cap” from Port Credit’s past. Home incorporated traditional as well as contemporary song and dance forms. We created a production seeking to embody a past, and contextualize the present...
Where have we been? Where are we going?
Creative Team
Home was commissioned by the Mississauga Waterfront Festival (MWF)
Original Cast: Miquelon Rodriguez, Andrew Gaboury, Kristen Carcone, Colleen Snell, Philippe Poirier.
Costume & Set: Noelle Hamlyn designed and created our phenomenal mobile ship set.
Original Story: Andrew Gaboury.
With Thanks
The Mississauga Waterfront Festival, City of Mississauga, the folks at Clarke Hall, Ken Snell the Builder, Great Art for Great Lakes-Waterlutions, Frog in Hand volunteers.