Acky-Made presents...
WOOL


                 Eddington has created a complex and moving memoir...                                                                                   confident and thoughtful…” 


Written and Performed by Alex Eddington

Performed at the
Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Edmonton
Fringe festivals

Summer 2006

Crocheted "WOOL" logo: Tom Baynes
Poster photograph: Jon Eddington

Featuring Kilda the bicycle

Sound Design by Alex Eddington

with music by Jock Tamson's Bairns and Mr. McFall's Chamber

“…a story that is so rich in detail, it's difficult not to be drawn into it..."  

- Joff Schmidt, CBC Manitoba

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A MIND ALONE KNITS AN ISLAND OUT OF WORDS

    From April to October 2003, I lived for 177 days on the Isle of Mull in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides islands.  My time on that island was characterized by the weirdness that comes from being alone for long stretches in an unfamiliar place.  The thing is, I wrote it all down, in journals, notebooks and sketchbooks - and it is from that writing that I wove the text of my first one-man play, WOOL.

I am not trained as an actor.  

WOOL is a storytelling show, made from the stories of a lonely mind in culture shock. 

I am trained as a composer, and I consider theatre to be a composition of text and staging, lighting and props.  

WOOL is a fabric knit from fragments of stories that gain meaning from each other.  

I am trained, above all, as myself, and the stories in WOOL are told by myself – 

not myself then but myself here, right now.

WOOL is a storytelling show that is frustrated and elated by the words with which its stories are told.

WOOL is a storytelling show, but it is also an exploration of form: repetition, simultaneous text, musical interludes, and levels of openness with the audience: from hiding behind my text to addressing my listeners directly. 

I tell these stories with simple props, most of which are mine already: my bicycle - my hair - my script, my voice – chalk drawing on the stage floor – an LED headlamp - bicycle lights - a mop, a bin of water – a folding chair.   

WOOL is as much about the storyteller as it is about the stories.

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