The Shimmering Verge is a fully staged Canadian/American production.

See an article on the Portraits Festival of One-Woman shows in the February Oprah Magazine with photographs by Michael Edwards (on newsstands January 15, 2006).(on newsstands January 15, 2006).

Backstage snapshot from the Oprah Magazine photo shoot. Members of the Femme Fatale Company. back row: Nicole Tushingham (Stage Manager), Louise Fagan (Producer/Director), Michael Edwards (photographer), Jacquie Gauthier (Writer/Producer), Bonnie Deakin (Designer); front row: Victoria Roberts (as Nona), Molly Peacock, and Denise Pelley (as Grace in Jazzabel).

In 2002, The Shimmering Verge was showcased at the Tarragon Theatre Spring Arts Fair, Toronto, and at Rosenberg Kaufman Fine Arts, New York City. It was then performed as a work-in-progress at the Wisconsin Humanities Festival, at the Poetry Center, Chicago, at Gloucester County College in New Jersey, and at Pratt Institute in New York City. 2003 performances included the McManus Theatre, London, Ontario, and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City. In 2005 The Shimmering Verge production joined two other one-woman shows, Jazzabel and Nona for a touring mini-festival of one-woman shows by established women artists who are taking their art into theatre for the first time. The Festival is produced by Femme Fatale Productions. The first stop for Portraits: A Festival of One-Woman Shows was the opening of the Alice Neel and May Stevens shows at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. 2006 performances include Urban Stages, New York City, and the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Director: Louise Fagan
Music by Andy Creeggan, formerly of The Barenaked Ladies
Set design and Costume by Kelly Wolf, Designer for Shakespeare & the Shaw Festivals
Lighting by Christopher Dennis, Lighting Designer for the Canadian National Ballet

You are listening to an MP3 excerpt of Molly Peacock performing The Shimmering Verge with music by Andy Creeggan

The poems in the monologue appear in print in CORNUCOPIA: New & Selected Poems, published by W.W. Norton and Company, 2002. Two interludes are adapted from Paradise, Piece by Piece, a literary memoir (Riverhead/Penguin Putnam, 1998).

Contact Louise Fagan of Femme Fatale Productions for booking information on the show:
www.louisefagan.com.