For one night only, audiences can partake in a workshop presentation of Parts to Whole, a new play written and directed by One Little Goat Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Adam Seelig.

Sochi Fried and Ben Irvine star in Parts to Whole as a couple discussing and exploring their intimacy in ways so simple as to be radical. Much like Seelig’s previous play (Like the First Time), Parts to Whole is written without punctuation so that the actors may choose how they emphasize the text. The unorthodox spacing on each page is generated by the vertical alignment of certain letters and words. This play also marks Seelig’s further exploration into his notion of “charactor”.

Fried and Irvine were recently seen together in One Little Goat’s The Charge of the Expormidable Moose, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The casting and dialogue are two elements in which I believe Seelig excels in. I have seen most of Seelig’s plays in the past four years, there is something about poetic theatre that really draws one in. Well, at least me… Seelig is also the founder of One Little Goat Theatre Company, with which he has premiered works by Yehuda Amichai, Thomas Bernhard, Jon Fosse, Claude Gauvreau, Luigi Pirandello and himself.

Seelig’s plays and books include Every Day in the Morning (slow), Talking Masks (Oedipussy), Antigone:Insurgency and others. Parts to Whole is being published in print and as an e-book by BookThug, now celebrating its 10th anniversary in innovative Canadian publishing. This marks BookThug’s third publication with One Little Goat.

This workshop will feature work from, Dora Award recipients and nominees, design consultants Jackie Chau (sets and costumes), Laird MacDonald (lighting) and Thomas Ryder Payne (sound).

With the support of Canadian Stage, this workshop presentation of Parts to Whole takes place on Monday, February 24, at 8 pm at the Canadian Stage Main Rehearsal Hall. Admission is free. More information available at OneLittleGoat.org.