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Carolyn Fe, a smiling Filipino-Canadian woman with long black hair, is pictured in a black and white photograph, sitting on a carpeted floor, legs askew and barefoot, arms and hands resting on her lap. She wears a long skirt, three-quarter-sleeve shirt and has a light printed shawl hanging down from her right shoulder.
Carolyn Fe, a smiling Filipino-Canadian woman with long black hair, is pictured in a black and white photograph, sitting on a carpeted floor, legs askew and barefoot, arms and hands resting on her lap. She wears a long skirt, three-quarter-sleeve shirt and has a light printed shawl hanging down from her right shoulder.
Photo: Dahlia Katz

Letting go of life Letting go of life

An old woman revisits her past during a game of Go Fish with her younger selves.

Photo: Dahlia Katz

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Go Fish!

On her last day, an old woman becomes a witness to her past as she prepares to let go. She separates and compartmentalizes all the women she has been at different stages in her life. In her solitude, she imagines each of these past versions of herself coming together to play the card game Go Fish. Each part of who she was will be reincarnated, and the audience will choose which version of her past self gets to tell their story before they move on to their next life.

Go Fish! is a two-act work-in-progress by actor, singer and emerging playwright Carolyn Fe. Hosted by Festival Accès Asie, the reading will feature Act 1 of the play, performed in the form of a theatrical reading by five women over the age of 45, in English only.

About Festival Accès Asie

Festival Accès Asie is a Montréal-based international arts festival that presents events featuring artists of Asian origin; and artists whose work is inspired by Asian arts, cultures and histories. The festival promotes Asian arts, cultures and histories from all over the world through a diverse variety of artistic disciplines, including visual arts, dance, theatre, video, film, music, comedy, poetry, literature, performance, new media and culinary arts. Its events are held in May, during Asian Heritage Month in Canada.

About Carolyn Fe

Former Montrealer, now Toronto-based artist, Carolyn Fe is a Filipino-Canadian actress, writer, music performer and a later-in-age emerging playwright who recently made waves in Teesri Duniya Theatre’s Fireworks Playwrights Mentorship Showcase. Her play Go Fish! was originally written as part of Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre’s educational program, and then expanded upon under Teesri’s dramaturgical mentorship. Carolyn wrote this play to bring a realistic representation of older women of colour to the stage and, in doing so, raise the voices of a demographic that’s continually pushed aside.

With thanks to Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Teesri Duniya Theatre and Tarragon Theatre for their support in the creation of Go Fish!

 

Carolyn Fe, a smiling Filipino-Canadian woman with long black hair, is pictured in a black and white photograph, sitting on a carpeted floor, legs askew and barefoot, arms and hands resting on her lap. She wears a long skirt, three-quarter-sleeve shirt and has a light printed shawl hanging down from her right shoulder.

Photo by Dahlia Katz

Event details

Hosted by: Festival Accès Asie, in collaboration with Teesri Duniya Theatre

Type of event: play reading (actors read from scripts)

Playwright & choreographer: Carolyn Fe

Director: Lib Spry

Cast: Li Li, Nouella Grimes, Raïssa Beaudoin, Bonnie Mak & Linda Joyce Nourse

Music: Traditional Filipino and original compositions by Carolyn Fe

Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023

Start time: 8:00 PM EST (doors open at 7:30PM EST)

Duration: 2 hours

Cost: C$10.00 + tax

Location: Salle Communautaire de la Cité des Hospitalières, 251 ave. des Pins Ouest, Montréal, QC, H2W 1R5, Canada

Booking link: Book your tickets here

Contact Details: Festival Accès Asie, 1200 Bleury Street, Office #111, Montreal, QC, H3B 3J3, Canada; 514-298-0757, info@accesasie.com, accesasie.com

 

Content warnings: For audiences 16+.