The Anatomy Lesson
Crave Productions
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Theatre
What does it mean to be a prisoner in one’s body? How do we co-exist and thrive with the one body we have when we feel like it’s failing us? The Anatomy Lesson follows Gemma as she comes to terms with the ways she’s harmed her body, how it’s harmed her, and her journey to find peace co-existing with it. We follow as she undergoes medical procedures, experiences surreal trips inside herself, and struggles to love and inhabit the body that she never expected to live in.
“I am fascinated by the premise of this piece and its questions: what happens when pelvic organs are no longer living in the place they were meant to, the place they started? We know if we abuse our bodies with substances that our organs will suffer. We know what we know, but how much is there for us still to learn? What must we reconcile with? How does a person make sense of their body when it’s falling apart from the inside out?…Literally.” – Beatriz Pizano
September 27, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Tickets are purchased through the Factory Theatre website above. A ticket to CAMINOS allows access to all presentations throughout an evening, and can be purchased on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis : $15 – $30 – $60.
Playwright, Performer, Choreographer, & Sound Design
Thalia Gonzalez Kane
About the artist
Thalia Gonzalez Kane is an award-winning, Ecuadorian-Canadian, queer, multidisciplinary artist and theatre scholar. Her work as a performer, playwright, voice-over artist, composer, designer, choreographer, director, and producer has been shared in Canada, Czechia, England, Ireland, Sweden, Scotland, and the USA. In 2023, she completed a six-city international tour of the award-winning and critically acclaimed play At Birth, which she co-wrote, designed, produced and performed in. Thalia is a councilor for ACTRA Toronto and ACTRA National, co-chair of outACTRAto, and the Artistic Director of Crave Productions. @teakane / @craveprod / www.craveartmakeart.com