Fertile Ground Productions

Original text by Lynn Harrigan
Adapted for the stage by Angela McMillan and Sarah Schwartz
Directed by Angela McMillan
Starring Sarah Schwartz
Live music by Scott M2 of dreamSTATE
Illustration by Stefan Valent

Moon Sea Crossing premiers at The Toronto Fringe Festival 2006
Factory Studio Theatre (Venue 5) / 125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide)

Thu, July 6 @ 8:45 pm - show code: 505
Sat, July 8 @ 6:00 pm - show code: 515
Sun, July 9 @ 12:00 pm - show code: 520
Mon, July 10 @ 11:00 pm - show code: 532
Tue, July 11 @ 1:00 pm - show code: 533
Thu, July 13 @ 7:30 pm - show code: 550
Sat, July 15 @ 5:15 pm - show code: 563

Tickets: $9 "At The Door" / $10 Advance ($8 + $2 SC) / Passes: $6.50 - $8
Running Time: 60 Min.

Moon Sea Crossing is the poetic and captivating retelling of the true story of
one woman’s escape from famine in Ireland, only to be imprisoned by new hungers in Canada.

Poetry, live ambient music, Celtic lore and storytelling come together
to trace a journey through madness and desire, loss and hope.

Fertile Ground brings Lynn Harrigan's book Moon Sea Crossing (Black Moss Press 2005) to life
in this one-woman show premiering at the Toronto Fringe Festival.

"Moon Sea Crossing is a romance in the most mystical sense of the word,
a record of a journey that commands the epic experience of the Irish-Canadian Diaspora.
This is a beautifully crafted poetic story not only of the process of relocation,
but of the transition from familiarity into a new, emergent reality
and consciousness wrought from the hard-won passion of experience" – Bruce Meyer

“If we listen closely, Moon Sea Crossing might lift us up and carry us lightly
to another place, another time and then let us off more fully alive
and wide awake in the here and now.” - John B. Lee

Fertile Ground Productions consists of Angela McMillan and Sarah Schwartz,
who have been working together for over a decade.

"We are excited to be collaborating with poet Lynn Harrigan,
author of the book Moon Sea Crossing (Black Moss Press 2005)
and ambient musician Scott M2 of dreamSTATE."