Tall Ghosts & Bad Weather
A play by Sean Meldrum in the oldest cemetery in Ontario
July 2015 | The Kick & Push Festival
A play by Sean Meldrum in the oldest cemetery in Ontario
July 2015 | The Kick & Push Festival
Audrey Sturino and Bridget Gilhooly, Photo by Akhil Dua
CHARLOTTE LOVETT (1819) / Zahshanne Malik
IDA LOVETT (1819) / Audrey Sturino
MONTGOMERY LOVETT (1819) / Kyle Holleran
ARCHDEACON GEORGE STUART (1819) / Sean Meldrum
ALEXANDER GABOV (2013) / Simon Gagnon
BLAIRE WEBBER (2013) / Bridget Gilhooly
WARDEN ALANA COMPSON (2013) / Nikki Clydesdale
PLAYWRIGHT / Sean Meldrum
DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG/ Mariah Horner
DRAMATURG / Kyle Holleran
PRODUCTION / Heather Salema
PRODUCTION / Angela Maxwell
COSTUMES / Marta McDonald
IDA LOVETT (1819) / Audrey Sturino
MONTGOMERY LOVETT (1819) / Kyle Holleran
ARCHDEACON GEORGE STUART (1819) / Sean Meldrum
ALEXANDER GABOV (2013) / Simon Gagnon
BLAIRE WEBBER (2013) / Bridget Gilhooly
WARDEN ALANA COMPSON (2013) / Nikki Clydesdale
PLAYWRIGHT / Sean Meldrum
DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG/ Mariah Horner
DRAMATURG / Kyle Holleran
PRODUCTION / Heather Salema
PRODUCTION / Angela Maxwell
COSTUMES / Marta McDonald
Tall Ghosts and Bad Weather is a one-act piece of drama inspired by oral historical accounts of Kingston’s Lower Burial Ground at St. Paul’s Anglican Church. The Lower Burial Ground, first dedicated in the 1780s, contains over 500 of Kingston's early residents. The play ricochets between religious conflicts of the 1820’s and conservation efforts of 2013. Accompanying a largely fictional 19th century narrative, Tall Ghosts and Bad Weather explores the conservation efforts of the Conservation of Monuments, Site and Objects team, led by Alexander Gabov in 2013. After a truck drove through the cemetery’s Montreal Street wall in 2008, The Lower Burial Ground Restoration Society was formed to begin to restore the space and recover some of the weathered inscriptions of the 200-year-old stones. Exploring loss and the inaccessibility of truth in historical matters, Tall Ghosts and Bad Weather takes a meta-theatrical approach to the exploration Canadian history, whether it’s two years or two centuries in the past.
Special thanks to Liam Karry, Alex Dault, The Kick & Push Team, John Grenville and the Lower Burial Ground Restoration Society, Alexander Gabov and the CSMO Team, William Patterson, Brian Osborne, Al Simpson, Irene, Allen Thompson, and the open arms of St. Paul’s Anglican Church.
Special thanks to Liam Karry, Alex Dault, The Kick & Push Team, John Grenville and the Lower Burial Ground Restoration Society, Alexander Gabov and the CSMO Team, William Patterson, Brian Osborne, Al Simpson, Irene, Allen Thompson, and the open arms of St. Paul’s Anglican Church.