Wild Women Open Heart Surgery Theatre

In this second episode of Wild Women,  listeners are invited into the magical realism of German-Canadian painter, Christiane Pflug.  Her painting, Kitchen Door With Esther ignites childhood memories, taking the listeners from an isolated kitchen to a wilderness within reach.  We journey to the Toronto ravines, to the vault of the AGO and find the trees are speaking … 

Concept by Martha Ross
Written and Performed by Martha Ross and Coleen Shirin MacPherson
Original Music by Amy Nostbakken
Theme Music by Mitchell Akiyama 
Sound Design / Editing by Christopher Ross Ewart
Sound Engineering by John Millard

Special thanks to the AGO and Georgiana Uhlyarik and to countless individuals who helped us along the way.  To Vivian Meyer and Elizabeth Martin who co-wrote ‘Female Gazes’ where we first learned about Christiane Pflug; thank you Ann Davis for her relentless work, to Ursula and Esther Pflug.. This podcast was made possible by the Digital Now Grant through the Canada Council.  

A surreal audio-drama

In this first episode, two theatre makers find themselves grappling with their obsession with Leonora Carrington, the English-Mexican painter and writer whose incredible life and work has influenced many. Their obsession transforms as they chat with writer Heidi Sopinka, and begin to fall into Carrington’s paintings, a world that is strange, animalistic, mythological and absurd. 

A sonic experience that is humorous and touching; wild and alive.  

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Created by Coleen Shirin MacPherson, Martha Ross, performances by Yearime Castel Barragan
Sound Design by Christopher Ross-Ewart
Original Music Composition by Mitchell Akiyama

Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Originals Grant and Digital Now Grant and to everyone who have helped shaped this work!