The Pomegranate Project (Reading)
Co-created by Jessica B Hill and Marion Adler
Somewhere, somehow three women are living together underground. Are they in a cave, or a psychiatric institution or perhaps the mysterious kingdom of Hades, the underworld of Greek mythology? They bicker and gossip. They reminisce and repine. And they plot their impossible escape. But they are helpless until the arrival of a very experienced but very bewildered world famous spelunker.
The Pomegranate Project is an exploration of a variety of real and mythic underworlds, and the women who inhabit them, willingly or otherwise.
Cast and Creative
Co-created by: Jessica B Hill and Marion Adler
Cast: Jessica B Hill, Marion Adler, Laura Condlln and Evangelia Kambites
Stage Manager: Emma Marcy
Marion Adler
Marion has been writing for the musical theatre since she arrived in Stratford in 1985. She has written or contributed lyrics to seven musicals, and numerous reviews and song cycles. With husband, Scott Wentworth and composer Craig Bohmler, she wrote GUNMETAL BLUES and ENTER THE GUARDSMAN. Both produced off Broadway and ENTER THE GUARDSMAN in the West End as well (Olivier Award Nomination for Best New Musical). GUNMETAL BLUES was been produced across North America, and Europe, ENTER THE GUARDSMAN was the most produced new musical in the USA in the 2001-2002 season and enjoyed a full season run at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Marion is a winner of the prestigious Kleban Award for her body of work as a lyricist. At the Stratford Festival she has written lyrics for Pericles (2015) and The Merry Wives Of Windsor (2019).
Emma Marcy
Emma Marcy is an experienced actor and playwright eager to make her debut in stage management at the Here For Now Theatre this season. She began her journey in theatre as a member of the Blyth Festival Young Company with shows like Sallows to Selfies (2017), HC Kid (2018), and Eco Echo (2019). Since then she has been contracted as a playwright for the Blyth Festival Theatre and an actor with the program D2L (Desire to Learn). With experience in Box Office duties, Ms Marcy is also excited to be sharing her time as a member of the Front of House team. Emma will be attending Brock University in the fall as a Dramatic Arts Co-op Student.
Jessica B Hill
Jessica is currently starring as Helen in All's Well That Ends Well and Lady Anne in Richard III at the Stratford Festival. Past Stratford Festival credits include Brontë, The Comedy of Errors, Mother’s Daughter, The Crucible, Paradise Lost, The Changeling, All My Sons, and The Alchemist. Here for Now Theatre has been pivotal in fostering Jessica as a new playwright. The Dark Lady (Performed in 2020, with a second staged reading in Stratford Festival’s Meighen Forum in 2021) will be premiering in Winnipeg at Shakespeare in the Ruins in 2023. In Search of Catharsis (2021 season) will go on to have a full production at the Prairie Theatre Exchange in January 2023. Originally from Montreal, Jessica currently co-teaches Chekhov and Shakespeare at the National Theatre School and performs in both English and French. Recent TV/Film credits include The Boys, Five Days at Memorial, The Kings of Napa and On the Basis of Sex.
Laura Condlln
Laura is a critically acclaimed actor who has originated roles in Canadian premieres and interpreted classic roles in theatres across the country and over 14 seasons with the Stratford Festival. She calls Stratford home is thrilled to be joining Here For Now again this summer.
Evangelia Kambites
Evangelia Kambites is a singer/songwriter, actor, dancer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Toronto. Notable stage credits include Hadestown (Citadel), Billy Elliot, Little Shop of Horrors, You Can't Stop the Beat Cabaret (Stratford Festival), the META Award-winning production of The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God (NAC/Centaur/BTW), The Hockey Sweater (Segal Centre/NAC) I Think I'm Fallin' - The Songs of Joni Mitchell (Belfry Theatre), for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, The Secret Chord: A Leonard Cohen Experience, 27 Club (Soulpepper), the Jessie Award-winning production of Avenue Q (Arts Club), A Whole New World: The Magical Music of Alan Menken (Angelwalk Theatre), Buddy–The Buddy Holly Story (Theatre North West). For television: Minority Report (FOX), Heroes Reborn (NBC), Incorporated (SYFY/CBS), The Boys (Sony/Amazon), Y: The Last Man (FX). Debut album Feel The Fall available now on all platforms! Twitter/Instagram: @ekambites