I Send You This Cadmium Red
March 20-21, 2019
mcmaster university, hamilton, ON
“I Send You This Cadmium Red is a film, a painting, an essay, a concert and, yes, a play all at once. Therefore none of the above. It’s something else entirely. And it’s extraordinary. It’s a contemplation of colour via words, music, words and projected animation. Colour is explored as a substance, a medium, a mood, an opaque fact and a window into infinity, but also as something tangible, almost human. And I can’t remember the last time I saw a play or a film in which the inevitable apartheid between form and content, style and substance, was so elegantly obliterated by a piece that is so utterly what it’s about.” Brian D. Johnson, Mcleans Magazine.
With music by Gavin Bryars and animation by Bruce Alcock, I Send You This Cadmium Red, (based on a correspondence between writer/critic/artist John Berger and filmmaker/artist John Christie) was conceived and adapted for the stage by Andrew Burashko and directed by Daniel Brooks. This was a remount of a 2011 CanStage/Art of Time co-production.
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🎥 I Send You This Cadmium Red ( 45 second promo)
🎥 I Send You This Cadmium Red (4 minute promo)
I Send You This Cadmium Red
Text by John Berger and John Christie
Music by Gavin Bryars
Animation and Set Design, Bruce Alcock
Directed by Daniel Brooks
Julian Richings actor, Alon Nashman actor, Andrew Burashko conductor, Joseph Phillips bass, Rob Carli clarinet, Sheila Jaffe violin, Rob Pitch guitar, Rachel Pomedli cello
Kevin Lamotte, lighting designer
Sarah Miller, stage manager
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Related Performances
I Send You This Cadmium Red (2011) - Toronto, ON
I Send You This Cadmium Red (2014) - Toronto, ON