Nanay
Nanay is a site-specific testimonial play investigating Canada’s Live-In Caregiver Program; a labour migration program that brings Filipino women to Canada to care for Canadian children and the elderly. The project was based entirely on the verbatim interview transcripts of domestic workers, their children, Canadian employers, and nanny agents. The production premiered at Vancouver’s 2009 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, and then toured internationally to Berlin’s HAU1 Theatre as part of Your Nanny Hates You!, an international arts festival focused on the issue of global care and the family.
Director Alexander Ferguson
Writers Geraldine Pratt, Caleb Johnston
Assistant Directors Carlo Sayo, Charlene Sayo
Dramaturge Martin Kinch
Stage Manager Noa Anatot
Costume Designer Barbara Clayden
Lighting Designer John Webber
Sceneographer Andreas Kahre
Set Designer Tamara Unroe
Actors Mellissa Dionisio, Karen Rae, Hazel Venzon,
Patrick Keating, Alexa Devine, Lissa Neptuno, Delia Brett, Erin Wells
Producer Caleb Johnston
* Nanay was created in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre of British Columbia.
Publications
Ferguson, Alexander. 2010. "Improvising the document". Canadian Theatre Review 143: 35-41.