tinkers is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Paul Harding. This new transcendentalist work features an intimate and dazzling relationship with the natural world, woven into a story of family karma. Through an intergenerational story we meet a young boy and his search for his long-lost father Howard, the epileptic peddler with donkey and wagon, estranged from his family, and ever-ecstatic in his relationship with nature. tinkers asks us how we collect together all the pieces of a relationship that has come apart, and tinker, tinker to bring it together again.
With a growing set crafted by German environmental art star, Cornelia Konrads, an off-grid sound score and puppets made from found materials, tinkers looks at how people creating in nature exemplify the transcendent possibilities of Human Nature.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
DATE: August 2016
VENUE: Crystal Creek, Sunshine Coast
WITH: Adapted from the novel by Paul Harding
| Director/ Writer | Kendra Fanconi |
| Production Manager | Colin Cooper |
| Costume Designer | Flo Barrett |
| Props/ Pupper Designer | Kat Binns |
| Sound Designer | Viviane Houle |
| Installation Designer | Cornelia Konrads |
| Set/ Puppet Designer | Carl Schlichting |
| Dramaturg | Heidi Taylor |
| Site Coordinator/ Additional Design | Cody Chancellor |
| Production Coordinator | Liam Kearns |
| Videographer | Sophia Dagher |
| Design Assistant | Sarita Moodie |
| Assistant Sound Design | Nancy Tam |
| Caterer | Trish Thompson |
| Volunteer Coordinator | Katie Anderson |
| Production Assistant | Julia Haslet |
| Megan/ Puppeteer | Stephanie Elgersma |
| George Sr. | David King |
| Erma | Nancy Tam |
| Howard | Paul Ternes |
| Kathleen | Bessie Wapp |
| George | Conor Wylie |
| Cullen/ Harry Miller | Kelly Backs |
| Dr. Box/ Freddy | Gord Austin |
| Levanseller/ Jimmy | Benjamin Goldenberg |
| Homesteader/ City Woman 1 | Susan Rekers |
| Pickaxe/ City Woman #2 | Jill Shatford |
| Child actor DARLA | Jeanette Muirhead |
| Child actor–MARJORIE | Asha Iui-Heneke |
| Child actor – GEORGIE | Gabriel Ryan |
| Child actor MARJOIRIE | Althea Hume |
| Child actor–DARLA | Kiana Hamlin |
| Child actor–JOE | Cael Read |
| Child actor–JOE | Max Backs |
| Child actor – Levensellar’s/ Jimmy’s Daughter | Johanna Goldenberg |