New Harlem Productions & Eventual Ashes present

A Song For Tomorrow

By Christina Wong

The performances are exceptional. -Wayne Leung, Mooney on Theatre

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Playwright: Christina Wong Director: Gein Wong Lisa Truong (May) Jeff Yung (Ping) Set and Costume Designer: Jackie Chau Lighting Designer: David DeGrow Sound Designer: Gein Wong Dramaturge: Philip Adams Stage Manager: Beth Wong Production Manager: Rae Powell Artists contributing to development: John Ng, Diana Tso, Marjorie Chan The play was originally produced for Summerworks Festival 2012.

A drama that invites us to think about time and the evolution or devolution of relationships. -Donna g, The More the Merrier, ciut

SYNOPSIS

May stands with a suitcase. She looks at a photo of her husband. Its the first time shes going to meet him. Its also the moment she decides to leave him forever.

In his Annex home, Ping holds Mays photo in one hand, a lottery ticket in the other. He paces back and forth anxiously.

A Song For Tomorrow is an elegy to the choices and

sacrifices both May and Ping make to find love and happiness, while attempting to make sense of their own lives in Canada.

Especially innovative is the projections of Spadina Avenue and Chinatown streetscapes thrown onto the back wall of their apartment. Likewise, the lighting and set effectively evoke the claustrophobia of May and Pings lives together. -Zoe Erwin-Longstaff, The Charlebois Post

LOGISTICS Cast size: 2 Crew size: 2 Duration: 75 minutes Set: The set consists of a single table and chair. There are several running props. Lighting and sound cues are extant. The design incorporates projections from a single static gridmounted projector. It is our preference to play in studio theatres with a capacity no larger than 200 in order to preserve the intimate feeling evoked by the narrative. Outreach: The company actively reaches out into various communities through promotions and arts workshops to create networks, alliances, receptive audiences for our own work and intercultural/ interdisciplinary work in general.

Delicate is an understatement for the subdued tone of this powerful portrayal of a marriage as it unravels against the backdrop of the stresses and tensions of new immigrant life -Melania Daniel, The Annex Gleaner

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
A Song For Tomorrow was developed through Nightwood Theatres Write From The Hip program where it received a public reading in August 2008 under the direction of Marjorie Chan;. The play was selected for participation in Diaspora Dialogues mentorship program in 2009. Ontario Arts Council supported a workshop by New Harlem Production with director/dramaturge Philip Adams in 2010. The play had a public reading in 2010 at Diaspora Dialogues event. Eventual Ashes and New Harlem Productions came together to produce the play under Gein Wongs direction for the 2012 Summerworks Theatre Festival.

ABOUT NEW HARLEM PRODUCTIONS Good stories. New stories. True stories. Past works include acclaimed production of Jobs Wife at Summerworks 2009, the four times Dora nominated production of Gas Girls and a presentation of Cake in partnership with Dynamo Theatre at the 2011 Bayimba Festival, Uganda. Notable works in development include On The Hill, a movement piece invited into residency at Dancemakers Centre for Creation and Refracted a photography exhibit and performance series at Ben Navaee Gallery. Artistic Director Donna-Michelle St. Bernard Advisory Committee Brenda St. Bernard, David Yee, Joan Kivanda, Isaac Thomas, Kern Albert, Philip Adams, Raine Liliefeldt, Sandra LeFrancois, Tara Beagan newharlemproductions.wordpress.com newharlemproductions@gmail.com 416-804-1702 The work of New Harlem Productions is supported through project funding from Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts

ABOUT EVENTUAL ASHES .everything new arises from what was there before.... Eventual Ashes is a Toronto-based Performing Arts company that produces and presents interdisciplinary work by people of colour and queer/trans people. Formed in 2008, director, playwright, composer and video artist Gein Wong serves as the Artistic Director. We create three types of productions, all of which contain strong narratives: 1) interdisciplinary works that incorporate multimedia and technology; 2) Audience interactive and immersive pieces in non-traditional performance spaces; 3) pieces that combine traditional and contemporary art forms. Our productions have incorporated the work of professional theatre artists, visual artists, Chinese and Western classical musicians, rock/pop/ electronic musicians, traditional Chinese and modern dancers, filmmakers, video artists, poets and performance artists. Eventual Ashes is currently developing work in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles. We are collaborating on a HERE Arts Centre residency and are the 2011-12 company in residence with fu-GEN Theatre company. As well, Gein Wong holds a 2012 Canadian Stage BASH Directors Residency.