GET THAT HOPE
“YOU GOT TO TAKE A LIKKLE BIT OF SUFFERING TO GET THAT HOPE.”
Richard Whyte is determined to celebrate Jamaican Independence Day in style. The rice is soaking, the ginger beer is cooling and today his lottery ticket is finally going to hit it big! But Richard’s squabbling family have other ideas, and over the course of a single sweltering day in Toronto’s Little Jamaica, a lifetime of buried secrets and dreams will finally come to light. Making its world première at the Studio Theatre, Get That Hope is a bittersweet drama of personal and cultural diasporas that brims with laughter and tears.
World Premiere by the Stratford Festival at the Studio Theatre.
Creative Credits
PLAY BY ANDREA SCOTT
DIRECTED BY ANDRÉ SILLS
PERFORMED BY CELIA ALOMA, CONRAD COATES, SAVION ROACH, KIM ROBERTS, JENNIFER VILLAVERDE
INTIMACY DIRECTION BY ANITA NITTOLY
SOUND DESIGN & MUSIC BY MADDIE BAUTISTA
LIGHTING DESIGN BY STEVE LUCAS
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN BY SARAH UWADIAE
ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGN BY ADAM CAMPBELL
ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGN BY EMERSON KAFAROWSKI
ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGN BY FREDDY VAN CAMP
MURAL BY ADRIAN HAYLES
STAGE MANAGED BY ALICE FERREYRA GALLIANI, SCARLETT LARRY (Assistant Stage Manager), and DANIELLE WALCOTT (Apprentice Stage Manager)
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID HOU
A full programme with more credits can be found here.
Photography by David Hou.
PRESS
“Maddie Bautista’s sound design captures the frenetic quality of the milieu nicely.” — Glenn Sumi (The Toronto Star)
“Designer Maddie Bautista’s soundscape of frenetic construction nicely conjures a neighbourhood in transition.” — Geoffrey Coulter (Our Theatre Voice)