"The Emptiest: An Adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest"
Created by Alex McCooeye and Matthew Raudsepp. Directed by Matthew Raudsepp. Performed by Alex McCooeye and Matthew Raudsepp at the Casgrain Theatre, St-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. Summer 2007.
“Let your indulgence set me free”
The Emptiest tackles Theatre’s current state of decline, and it’s possible death, by imagining Waiting for Godot’s Pozzo and Lucky as destitute actors living in an abandoned theatre. It is in this theatre that Pozzo performs his ritualistic one-man Tempest ad nauseam, for nobody, until Lucky disrupts his one-track mind and sends Pozzo into a mad questioning of his dependence upon Shakespeare’s language, all in the confines of a condemned and dangerous building.
"Sing To Me Through Open Windows"
Written by Arthur Kopit. Directed by Karen Kaderavek. Performed by Alex McCooeye, Kyle Gatehouse and Matthew Raudsepp at the John Rennie Theatre, Pointe-Claire, Quebec. Fall 2005.
"I have vanished, Loveless. Suddenly I have vanished"
For five years the boy has been coming to this sinister house to be entertained privately by a passe magician who lives in shadows with an impish and diabolical clown. The clown is really the master; his arts succeed while the magician can pull only rabbits out of the hat. Yet the boy is enthralled and wants to stay with the magician, but time has expired and he must vanish forever. (Samuel French Inc.)