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Caitlin Hicks as Nicole, Sara, Meg
 Playwright
and performer Caitlin Hicks stars as all three pivotal characters in Singing
The Bones, roles she brought to life on tour in the past five
years to over 35 cities in Canada, the U.S. England and Sweden -- to standing
ovations.
Hicks'
work in theatre, television and film in San Francisco, New York, Toronto
and Vancouver has included roles as diverse as Nina in The Seagull,
Gwendolyn in the musical of Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest,
Gammer Gurton in the oldest English comedy, Gammer Gurton's Needle,
Nancy Reagan in off-Broadway A Bonzo Christmas Carol. In Toronto,
Hicks played Sylvia Plath in the Canadian premiere of Letters Home,
Fefu in Maria Irene Fornes' Fefu & Her Friends, Annie Shea
in Six
Palm Trees, Dorothy in Just
A Little Fever. Hicks has performed at the National Arts Center
Atelier in Ottawa and the Festival des Ameriques Cabaret in Montreal.
In film and television, credits range from a Stephen King's movie of
the week, IT to guest starring with Mickey Rooney in the local
tv series The Black Stallion.
Radio credits include Stories
for a Winter Solstice on CBC's Morningside ('96), Almanac ('94
& '95) Afternoon Show ('94) and A Woman's Body and One of
those Days for Commentary ('95).
Brenda Menard as Brenda
Brenda Menard is
a Chippewa Cree Metis who hails from Turtle Mountain North Dakota.
"In First Nations experience, twins have spiritual significance,
and because of the sacredness of the story, (of Singing The
Bones), I did feel it so much inside. I was honored to step
into her moccasins for that period of time." Brenda has three
children, all born naturally in hospital, "in spite of efforts
by nurses to give me drugs". Brenda lives on the Sunshine Coast.
Ed White as Doctor Reichmann, Rumkowski, Meg's Father
In
his capacity as minister for the United Church, Ed White preahced without
notes for 18 of his 27 years in the ministry. He wrote single peson
monologues periodically, acting these out instead of the usual sermon.
His interest in theatre stretches back to his studies at UBC, where
he took an elective theatre course taught by Dorothy Somerset. On the
Sunshine Coast, Ed White has played in many local theatre productions:
Fiddler on the Roof, HMS Pinafore, The Music Man, Arsenic
and Old Lace, The Parson's Predicament, Harvey and others.
SUPPORTING CAST
in order of appearance:
Nicole's twin daughter . . . Casmira Thompson
Meg, the midwife . . . .Caitlin Hicks
The real Nicole . . . Joanne Frechette
Sargent's Bay Beach:
Mary Degan, Jr. & Michael Warlaw
Joanne Frechette & Xavier Sotos
Johanne Baril & Scott Avery
with Genoa Avery and Izzy Goodwin
Melissa Di Pietro & Raul Gonzalez
with Raven Bear Di Pietro and
Jasmine Di Pietro
Petra Pruiksma & Serge Grenier
with Stephanie Grenier
Charon & Frank O'Brien
with Dominique O'Brien and Kevan O'Brien
Single Pregnant Mum: Linda Wright
Nicole's twin son. . . . Gabe Gibb
Fiddler: James Law
Little boy with buzz cut: Anthony Fast
Nicole, the mother. . . . . . Caitlin Hicks
Young Sara in Meg's dream . . . .
Nadeen Stubbs
Sara's little sister in Meg's dream . . . .
Sullivan Messner
Children waiting at the ferry terminal:
Hanna and Philip Klippenstein
Nikita and Jillian McPhee-Cytko
Rowan McCloud
Teal Hayden
Taja Rivera
Julieah & Daniel Gabriel
Jennifer Stubbs
Liam Gibb
Dream sequence:
Rumkowski . . . . . . Ed White
Brenda's Story:
Brenda, the Native woman. . . . . .
Brenda Menard
The Woman Who Overlooks the Village and Sits on the Hill . . . Kirsten
Joe
Meg's father . . . .Ed White
Hospital tennis scene:
Nurse dragging Nicole on gurney . . .
Margaret Guzzi
Tennis playing Surgeon . . . Gary Kent
Tennis playing surgeon . . . Edna Naylor
Surgeon examining Nicole . . . . Margaret Guzzi
Nurse. . . Donna Schmirler
Nurse. . . .Ann Law
Nurse . . . Stacia Leach
Surgeon eating popcorn . . . Patricia Manly
Orderly . . . Charles Hogan
Surgeon juggling . . . Jacques Boisvert
Nurse in dark glasses . . . Tayjah Xaveriss
Nurse . . . Bronwen Besso-Smith
Blonde baby boy . . . . Max Clemens
Mother of blonde baby boy . . . . Laila Ferreira
Labouring Mum in hospital . . . .
Angela Frankson
Sara Bienemann, obstetrician . . . . . .
Caitlin Hicks
Michalina, Nicole's pretend daughter folding diapers. . . . . Michalina
Hunter
Sara's Mother . . . . Laura Nelson
Sara's baby sister, Hanna . . . . .
Shannon Nelson
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