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when billings approaches a stage she owns it
-Beyond James on Meat(less) Loaf
“Carly Anna Billings is a remarkable performer... she is completely engaging
and never loses a beat.”
“... the exceptional and magnificently earthy Carly Billings with a powerful voice as Jaquenetta”
“Extremely powerful and, suffice it to say, it is cringe comedy at its finest. ”
“That finale... is stunning.”
“When it comes to purposefully developing a cringe comedy, there’s a fine line for creators to tread between hilarity and genuine uncomfortableness. Afterlife Theatre... manages to not only tread this line, but joyfully dance upon it, taking the audience for an enjoyable ride.”
“Carly Anna Billings is a terrific Tracy. She gets right inside the character finding Tracy’s wide-eyed innocence and heartfelt spirit. She sings the show’s big numbers with warmth and humour and is pretty much the jell that keeps the show in place.”
There’s still life in us, yet…
Co-founded by Carly Anna Billings and Patrick Teed, Afterlife Theatre is committed to staging urgent and provocative works that are informed by their inheritance of the past while looking towards the future. Visit our website here for more info.
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CURRENTLY
IN DEVELOPMENT
Photography by Alex Jacobs-Blum
Uninvited Guests : This project is currently in development and has been generously supported by The Ontario Arts Council.
Join us as we are bring our newest show Uninvited Guests to the 2023 Frost Bites Festival! Join us FEB 16 & 19 at the Theatre Aquarius Arts Centre for a work-in-progress peek into the first of the three pieces that make up this show.
Uninvited Guests is a theatrical triptych whose first piece The Acknowledgement stumbles through offering meaningful engagement with both historical and ongoing colonization.
Come take a peek into this work in progress and afterwards, engage in a cozy tea and talk-back with its creators and performers Patrick Teed and Carly Anna Billings.
Get your tickets HERE.
PAST PROJECTS
Presented by Afterlife Theatre as a part oft he 2022 Hamilton Fringe July 20-31. Click on the photo for tickets.
Meat(less) Loaf is what happens when a 20-something vegetarian actor with an ancestry.com subscription, too many feelings and a love for Meat Loaf desperately wants to create something good. Part storytelling, part culinary adventure it is the tasting menu of searching for who you are. Its development has been generously supported by The Garden Project 2021, the Lighthouse Festival Theatre and the Hamilton Fringe.
Playwright & Performer: Carly Anna Billings
Director & Dramaturg: Patrick Teed
Producer: Meg Webster
Stage Manager: Shane Pennells
A digital cringe comedy exploring the absurd, awkward, and ridiculous real-life ways that non-Black people 'showed up,' 'did the work,' and 'had the tough conversations' in the wake of George Floyd's murder. It's a Beautiful Day for Brunch... And to Arrest the Cops That Killed Breonna Taylor asks us to consider what is at stake in the ways we engage racial justice and what more is asked of us in order to imagine a better world.
Originally presented at the 2021 Hamilton Fringe Festival Digital Exclusives and again at the 2022 Living Record Festival.
Performers: Roselyne Dougé-Charles, Carly Anna Billings, Liz Whitbread, and Patrick Teed
Intermission Magazine artist perspective on the show process and content written by Carly Anna Billings & Patrick Teed