Sometimes, it’s just a dress. Sometimes, it’s so much more.
This play is part of THE BOTTLE TREE STUDIO SERIES
Playing May 30 – June 15, 2024
Thursdays – Saturdays @ 7:30pm with Sunday Matinees (no matinee June 16) 2:30pm
The Bottle Tree Studio, St, Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
130 Clergy Street East, Kingston ON
Tickets: $25.79 ($20.00 + hst) plus handling fee (order below)
*we can take credit and debit cards at the door (not guaranteed that tickets will be available at the door) – please note that we cannot make change for cash
DRESSING AMELIA
by Chloe Whitehorn
Director Will Britton
STARRING
Sophie Vollick as Amelia
Alexzander McLarry as Thomas
Jennifer Verardi as Grace
Sandie Cond as Grandmother
A daughter struggles to reconcile the past she thought she knew with a wardrobe full of roles to try on. Upstairs, Amelia is still angry with her mother and refuses to leave her childhood room because she doesn’t have anything appropriate to wear. Downstairs, her grandmother is entertaining the guests who have arrived while Thomas and Grace indulge Amelia’s retrospection on her childhood. Amelia’s missed some things over the years, including her mom’s questionable relationship with her high school neighbor. In a dizzying journey of crayons, circus acts and lavender martinis, Dressing Amelia is a lovingly penned letter for the mothers and daughters seeking to connect through states of mania and inherited trauma. Sometimes it’s just a dress and sometimes it’s so much more.
“unflinchingly direct, engagingly mysterious, darkly funny & compelling” — Cate McKim (Life With More Cowbell theatre reviews)
Trigger warnings: mental health