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Mysterious Entity Board of Directors:
Dianne Latchford, Kate Story, Susan Newman, Em Glasspool, Jill Walker, Matt Gilbert
Special Thanks:
Janet Glasspool, Martha Cockshutt, Catalina Motta, Jean Greig,
Cal Coons, Maureen O'Rourke, Jay Amer, Dianne Latchford, Kate Story
From the Toronto production: Hope Thompson (producer), Sheree Tams (additional
costume pieces) and Meredith Henry (stage management)
Mysterious Entity gratefully acknowledges the generous support of…
Theatre Trent, City of Peterborough, The Theatre On King (TTOK), The Barbeside Salon,
and the support of our friends in the community, without whose generosity we would
cease to exist.
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Em Glasspool (Director) is a Peterborough-based theatre artist who has been involved in many different aspects of
production, including: directing, acting, writing and music. Em is the Artistic Director of Mysterious Entity Theatre,
which has produced several adaptations of classics including: Macbeth for Six, Hamlet in a Hurry and Othello, all
directed by Glasspool. Through Mysterious Entity, Glasspool has also created and/or directed several original works
including: threadbare, Skirting the Edge, The Black Diamond, My Gender Assignment, and a workshop production of
Beside Herself, written by Tara Beagan. Mysterious Entity’s original work based on women and mental health entitled
Skirting the Edge, has been performed numerous times in the Peterborough region, and at Workman Arts in Toronto in
2011. In collaboration with David Bateman, Em directed the world premiere of Bateman's Lotus Blossom Special at
Western Front in Vancouver as part of the Vancouver Opera's "View's of Japan" series and Em wrote and performed
with David in Pool for Love. Em also directed the Mysterious Entity production of What's It Like? - written and
performed by Bateman. The next original project in the works by Mysterious Entity is entitled, The Blind Eye, which
will be workshopped in 2014.
David Bateman (Writer/Performer) is an actor, a spoken word poet, and performance artist presently based in
Toronto. He has presented his work internationally and across the country over the past twenty years and also
teaches drama, literature, and creative writing at a variety of Canadian post-secondary institutions. He has a PhD
from the English Department (Creative Writing specialization) at the University of Calgary. His poetry and
performance monologues have been published by Frontenac House Press (Calgary), Blizzard Press (Toronto), Ordinary
Press (Peterborough), and finewords chapbooks (Victoria). His third collection of poetry, ‘tis pity, was published by
Frontenac in the spring of 2012, and his fourth collection, Designation Youth, will be published by Frontenac in the fall
of 2014. His collaborative work with poet/novelist Hiromi Goto includes the performance piece The Cowboy and the
Geisha and the lyric long poem Wait Until Late Afternoon (Frontenac House Press).
David Roche (Writer/Performer) Writer, performer and musician, David’s one-man shows played at Factory and
Tarragon Theatres in Toronto and toured to Western Canada, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Cyprus. For Buddies In
Bad Times Theatre: David Roche Talks To You About Love (later a prize-winning first film by Jeremy Podeswa) and
1969 & 1975 (inspired by Spalding Gray). For Tarragon: the 5-hour Wagner’s Rinse Cycle. Toronto City Opera:
featured roles for ten seasons. Toronto Fringe: Tyrolia. Film: John Greyson’s Zero Patience and Nick Sheehan’s No
Sad Songs. A further adventure of the two Davids as Magda and Elvira, set in a haunted mansion in Scotland, enjoyed
a long run at Solar Stage, North York, in 1996.
Martha Cockshutt (Costume Designer) is delighted that her frocks still fit’n’flatter the duelling Davids. Martha has
been designing costumes, and sets too, for longer than anyone can remember. Greatest hits include anything that
David Bateman has ever worn, Skirting the Edge for Mysterious Entity, Stria for Chartierdanse, The Postmistress for
OKW, The Cure for Sexual Jealousy for the Cure Collective, costumes for Old Men Dancing, and Seton for 4th Line
Theatre. Not to mention Sartor Resartus, a retrospective exhibition of her work at Artspace in Peterborough.
Tom & Flo (opening act) have been treading the boards together since their vaudeville days in the late 1930s. They
are principally remembered for their serial act with the Cherry Sisters ("Vaudeville's Vilest Act of All Time!!!"), and for
allegedly breaking young Buster Keaton's leg during an onstage misunderstanding. They recently emerged from an
extended - some might say enforced - retirement for a star turn in TTOK’s production of Pennies From Heaven, where
they were reviewed as "creepy" (John Marris, PhD) and "nightmarish" (Serena, age 8). What a delight to be together
again for People Are Horrible! Because people are.
People Are Horrible
Wherever You Go
Written & Performed by David Bateman and David Roche
Directed by Em Glasspool
Elvira.......................David Roche
Magda.......................David Bateman
Costume Designer.........................Martha Cockshutt
Lighting by.......................Ryan Kerr & Spencer Allen
Lighting & Sound Operated by..............Spencer Allen
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Poster Design...............................Dianne Latchford
Photos by........................................David Rasmus
From the Writers…
Note about the original production:
People Are Horrible Wherever You Go, first produced in 1994 for Rhubarb! At
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, was originally directed by Michael
Achtman, and was revived for Rhubarb!'s 25th anniversary season in 2004.
The latest revival, directed by Em Glasspool (and again staged at Buddies) was
in November 2013.
~ David Bateman and David Roche