Crane Girl

Written and directed by Alexa Higgins

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Falling Iguana Theatre's third original production.

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June 10, 2023 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 part of the "One Night Only" festival presented by Space Space Revolution in Toronto. A staged reading, the production marked the first time that 'Crane Girl' had been seen in the flesh onstage. '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.