![]() ![]() There has been some distance provided by time, but the memories are still white hot. "Transforming this has been intense," Martini said. Martini, who's the chair of the division of drama in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary, said in an email interview with CTV News that the play was partly an exercise in self-understanding – and also a passion project, the same as all his previous works. It allows us to both acknowledge the real lives behind the story, and to make creative choices that make for an engaging production." "But the fictionalization is especially important. "Obviously, Cantata shares deep ties with Clem and his family," said director Jason Mehmel, Sage's artistic director. ![]() It's semi-autobiographical, a loose adaptation of a book Martini co-wrote with his brother called The Unravelling: How our caregiving safety net came unstrung and we were left grasping at threads, struggling to plait a new one. The play explores the rising stress level as the balance of caregiving unravels over the course of the story. Sage Theatre produced playwright and author Martini's Cantata ( Rumours of My Crazy, Useless Life), which the company's press material describes as "a dramatization and fictionalization of Martini's experience as a caregiver for a brother with schizophrenia and a mother developing dementia." Clem Martini was dealt more family trauma than most people, but he turned it into a theatrical drama that made its world premiere Thursday night at cSpace in Calgary. ![]()
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