Unidentified Human Remains & The Ture Nature of Love

Brad Fraser’s Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love was first developed with Crow’s Theatre at the Poor Alex Theatre, Toronto during 1993. The play invloved a dramatic narrative based on glimmerings of human warmth arising in a range of alienated characters. Director Jim Millan produced the script as a chamber work, employing a range of visual treatments and unscripted movements to amplify the text. The stage set for Unidentified Human Remains was developed as a series of strained tectonic plates making hollow, uncertain ground. Rifts in these fragile shells were employed for dramatic staging of exchangs between characters. The white glazed surfaces of the set were developed to act as resonant projection vehicles for widely varying scattered pools of light.

Follwing the first production, a new design was developed for an extended engagement at the Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto. In subsequent years a new design was refined for the National Art Centre, Ottawa, followed by another set undertaken as a touring vehicle for a range of North American Venues.

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