Living Below the Line
"STORIES OF STRUGGLE, COURAGE AND HOPE"
Individuals who live with poverty in Canada perform their stories onstage as a way to confront societal stereotypes, misconceptions and inequalities.
"STORIES OF STRUGGLE, COURAGE AND HOPE"
Individuals who live with poverty in Canada perform their stories onstage as a way to confront societal stereotypes, misconceptions and inequalities.
Jade Attwood
Jeffrey Beckner
Glenna Bradley
Erma Friesen
Rebekah Haynes
Carol Kennedy
Kohar Kilejian
Sandee Lovas
Louise Murray
Individuals who live with poverty in Canada perform their stories onstage as a way to confront societal stereotypes, misconceptions and inequalities.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
วัยรุ่นต้องเผชิญกับการต่อสู้ที่ยากลำบากเมื่อเธอต้องต่อสู้เพื่อให้ผู้หญิงมีโอกาสได้เล่นฟุตบอลแข่งขัน
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.