House Of KOSA




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Featuring: Barbara Bourget, Michael Springate, Kirsten Slenning, Lindsay Drummond, Victor Mariano, Yasser Ismail and Nita Bowerman 

October 1-10, 2009

PAL Theatre - 581 Cardero @ Georgia, Vancouver 

TigerMilk announces their grandest production yet, the dystopian tale of the last haute couture label in the world: House of KOSA by TigerMilk's own, Miranda Huba.

House of KOSA is set in a visually fantastic world of celebrated craftsmanship. Loaded with cultural significance, it undermines our relationship to fashion and the media.

A chorus of models, moonlighting as seamstresses in a basement sweatshop, unweave the twisted workings of the family that inhabit the House above them. The Mother (played by celebrated dancer/choreographer, Barbara Bourget) is upstairs in the attic creating the intricate designs, while devising the future of her family. The Father (Michael Springate) is at the breakfast table encouraging his Daughter (Kirsten Slenning) to recount her latest tale of front page debauchery.

The House runs like a well oiled machine until one Christmas morning the Daughter asks for the head of her Father... 

A dynamic blending of Versailles with today's lip-glossed fashionistas, House of KOSA is a celebration of the poetic, the profane, the poignant and, of course, fabulous taste.

Featuring costumes by cutting-edge Canadian designer Christina Darling, House of KOSA will burst to life under the bold direction of Olivia Delachanal. 

TigerMilk Collective is a company of women who are intensely aware of the commodification and packaging of identity in our pop-culture obsessed world.

This play was developed with the support of Playwrights Theatre Centre in Vancouver, The Enbridge Award through Alberta Theatre Projects and Factory Theatre in Toronto.

Costumes by Christina Darling ~ Original Composition and Sound Design by David Mesiha ~
Lighting Design by Parjad Sharifi ~ Headpieces, Wigs and Prosthetics by Nita Bowerman

Tickets: $20/ $17
Purchase online at vancouvertix
or by phone at 604-629-VTIX




Part of the See Seven Independent Series

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