Dressed As People

Description

Winner of the 2021 Ottawa Fringe Audience Choice & Outstanding Solo Performance awards, Dressed As People: A Triptych of Uncanny Abduction is a show with three stories, written by three different people, all performed by one storyteller.

From the producers of the smash hit The Elephant Girls, multi-award-winning theatre creator and performer Margo MacDonald teams up with director Mary Ellis, and multi-award-winning horror and speculative fiction writers A.M. Dellamonica, Amal El-Mohtar and Kelly Robson for this trio of chilling tales. These internationally renowned queer Canadian fiction authors now tackle writing for the theatre and, combined with MacDonald’s masterful storytelling and chameleon-like performance, will have you on the edge of your seat. Only 6 performances left!

“Three memorable stories, delivered by a master storyteller.” — Apt 613

A school haunted by troubled children, an encounter with the unknown on open waters, the mysterious disappearance of a friend in the woods. Three different characters, three different time periods, three spine-tingling tales of abduction and the intrusion of the uncanny into the lives of those who are taken, those who do the taking, and those who are left behind.

The stories

“Skinless”, by Kelly Robson

In 1989, while teaching Canadian Literature at a university in Edmonton, a nun reveals her past as a young instructor at a haunted school full of troubled children in 1950s Ireland.

“The Shape of My Teeth”, by Amal El-Mohtar

In 1827, a woman reflects on her best friend’s mysterious disappearance in Mortimer Forest on the Welsh border. She refuses to be left behind.

“Repositioning”, by A.M. Dellamonica

In 2021, a seasoned entertainer on the lesbian cruise circuit grapples with memories of an encounter with the unknown in 2018 while on a Pacific Ocean repositioning cruise headed to Vancouver, B.C. from Sydney, Australia.