elysse cheadle
registered massage therapist
Soft Face and Featherless
Soft Face and Featherless has been presented at Vancouver's BC Buds Festival, Accordion Noir Festival and the IGNITE! Theatre Festival in Calgary, Alberta.
Inspired by E.E. Cummings’ poem “It is funny, you will be dead some day,” and several personal encounters with birds, Soft Face and Featherless circles an exorbitant tale about a boy flung from the 1001th floor of a hospital. Often told from the perspective of a bird, the story is recklessly performed through a collage of thematically and texturally related images, songs, and interjections. Part rock concert, part surrealist melodrama, and part gothic barnyard poetry slam, Soft Face and Featherless is a bodily exploration of descent, edges, birds, and inevitability.
Created by: Ashley Aron, elysse cheadle, Aryo Khakpour, and Elliot Vaughan
Text by: elysse cheadle
Music by: Elliot Vaughan
Directed by: elysse cheadle and Marc Arboleda
Lighting Design by: Jonathan Kim
Script Dramaturgy by: Marc Castellini
Performances by: Ashley Aron, Aryo Khakpour, Elysse Cheadle and Elliot Vaughan
photo by Didier Brule Champagne