Dancer
An urban family that can’t seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town’s home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town’s problems but learn to connect with each other just in time for the holidays.
Gertrude Stein
FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.
Mr. Pinky's Customer
Estamos nos anos 60. O sonho de todo adolescente da época é aparecer no "The Corny Collins Show", o programa de dança mais famoso da TV. Tracy Turnblad, uma grande garota com grande cabelo e coração maior ainda, tem só uma paixão na vida: dançar. Mesmo sendo gordinha para os padrões locais, ela impressiona os juízes com seu estilo e ganha espaço na atração. A garota se torna um sucesso, ameaçando a hegemonia de Amber von Tussle. O público ama Tracy. Mas a disputa se torna pessoal mesmo quando as duas passam a lutar pelo amor do jovem Link.
