CRANE GIRL
Falling Iguana Theatre's third original production.
Written and Directed by Alexa Higgins.
Hamilton Fringe Festival + NotaBle Acts Theatre Festival
July-August 2025
Crane Girl had an exhilarating summer as FIT premiered the show at the Hamilton Fringe Festival in July 2025. Crane Girl won "Best New Play Award" going into Hamilton festival and received six glowing reviews during the run.
After closing in Hamilton FIT took the show to Fredericton, NB, to perform it as the mainstage production the NotaBle Acts festival in early August. Falling Iguana felt quite at home at the festival where 81 Minutes received its premier in 2021.
Hamilton + Fredericton 2025 Cast:
Jane: Alexa Higgins
Jon, Evan, Wide Legged Guy: Ian Ottis Goff
Kira, Laura, Police Officer: Katherine Cappellacci
Hamilton Stage Manager: Daniel Entz
NotaBle Acts Stage Manager: Eve Gignac
Crane Girl
June 10, 2023 staged reading cast:
Laura Del Papa- Jane
Gordon Harper- Jon, Evan, Wide-Legged Guy
Mona Hillis- Kira, Laura, Police Officer
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Music and sound design by Ian Ottis Goff
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On Saturday June 10, 2023 'Crane Girl' was presented as a staged reading as part of the "One Night Only" festival presented by Space Space Revolution in Toronto. 'Crane Girl' is written and directed by Falling Iguana Co-Ad Alexa Higgins. Loosely based off of the 2017 incident in Toronto when a young woman climbed a crane almost 100 metres high in the downtown core, 'Crane Girl' is a fictionalized exploration of what might cause a person to walk out of their carefully curated life and climb a crane. It follows Jane, a young married woman who, having witnessed a tragic event, suddenly finds herself feeling completely untethered. She can see no way out of the cage she has built around herself until she realizes she should not have been looking for a way out, she should have been looking for a way up.
