PROGRAM

ALL AND ONE THEATRE PRESENTS
THE ANORAK
Performer: Alex Dubois
Written and Directed by: Adam Kelly Morton
Please turn off electronic devices. The show runs for 90 minutes, with no intermission.
An optional forum will take place after the performance.



an•or•ak / n. 1 a waterproof jacket of cloth or plastic, usu. with a hood, of a kind originally used in polar regions. 2 colloq. derog. a boring, studious, or socially inept person with unfashionable and solitary interests.
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We at All and One Theatre would like to acknowledge that we live and work on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka people, on this island known as Tio’tia:ke. We also recognize the hundreds of First Nation, Inuit, and Metis groups that have been stewards of this island, and we are thankful to them. We acknowledge the colonial violence done to Indigenous people, and wish to move forward with a shared sense of community and non-violence.
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Alex Dubois-Performer

Alex has worked extensively in Montreal as a bilingual actor, writer, and dancer. A 2007 alumni of the Option Théâtre du Collège Lionel-Groulx, his theatre credits include Jeunesse Musicale Canada’s Scrooge, Mathieu, François et les Autres’s Jouez, Monsieur Molière, Théâtre de l’Utopie’s Hamlet, and others. He has also written for the stage: Grapevine, Persona Kinema and Conseils d’ami. His television credits include Real Detective, The Art of More, Beauty and the Beast, and he will appear in next season’s Les pays d’en haut and Fugueuse. Other film roles include Fair Sex, Midway, Samhain, and My Salinger Year. As a contemporary dancer, he’s worked for choreographers Geneviève La, Sarah Bild, and Nicolas Fillion. He has also done video game performance capture in Far Cry: New Dawn and Ghost Recon: Breakpoint.

Victoria Kelly—Host/Stage Manager

Victoria Kelly is currently a PhD student in History at Concordia University. She has worked with the Emerging Risks Information Center at Concordia since 2020, and is currently involved in projects related to development and sustainability.

Adam Kelly Morton—Writer/Director

Adam is a Montreal-based writer, actor, and teacher at I.O. Acting & Creative Studio Mtl. www.ioactingstudio.com. He has been a scriptwriter, producer, and actor for television, film, documentary-drama, and theatre for 30+ years. Having completed a B.FA in Theatre Performance from Concordia and an M.FA in Acting from York University, Toronto, his play, The Anorak about the Montreal Massacre (developed at York) has been performed since 2000 across Canada (in English and French) and in London, England, at the Edinburgh Festival and, most recently, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in Portuguese. In 2006, he collaborated as Writer and Script Consultant with RemStar Media on Denis Villeneuve's film about the massacre, Polytechnique. As a filmmaker, Adam's short films have screened in Montreal, Toronto, and the US, including the SoHo NYC and Rochester International Film Festivals.
In 2021 (during the Covid pandemic), Adam completed his Master’s degree in Creative Writing (Teesside University, England—With Distinction) and has since been involved in numerous filmed and theatrical projects—both independently, and through I.O. Acting & Creative Studio, which he founded in 2009.
Since turning to television screenwriting in 2021, his pilot screenplays have won several awards, including Best Pilot (for his espionage thriller, Die Ahle/The Awl) at the 2023 San Pedro International Film Festival, and the WildSound Film Festival Fantasy/Sci-Fi competition for Best TV Pilot (for his fantasy procedural, Vike) in 2022.
Adam was born in N.D.G. and he lives here now with his wife, Kimberley, and their four children.
www.adamkellymorton.com
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PLAY HISTORY

The Anorak began as an assignment for the Masters Acting program at premiered in Toronto at York University in 2000. The first mainstage productions took place at York in February 2002, performed by Adam Kelly Morton, with Technical Director Bree Barker. The Montreal premiere took place in September 2004, at Zeke's Gallery, Technical Director Chris Hand. After productions at TMU (Ryerson), Queen’s, McGill, Concordia, Université de Laval, Université de Montréal, and several high schools and Cegeps, the UK premiere took place at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London, May 2013, performed by Felix Brunger, directed by Matthew Gould.
In December 2014, The Anorak was performed for the last time by Adam Kelly Morton, for the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, at Montreal Improv Theatre, Technical Director, Linda Diep.
A production of The Anorak was mounted for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 with Finn McGee in the title role and Andrew Hogarth directing for No Frills Theater Company in Kent, England. The Portuguese-language premiere took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in May 2025, featuring Daniel Chagas.
December 6th, 2024 marked the 35th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. Although not the first massacre on this soil, it was the first mass school shooting in Canada, and the worst to date—particularly for its targeting of women. We have endured further school shootings here (Concordia University, Dawson College), and these kinds of massacres have become commonplace in the United States.
It is our hope that this play will help to promote change through community, communication, and non-violence.

We also wish to keep our memory of the event alive, and to commemorate the victims:

GENEVIÈVE BERGERON (1968–1989), civil engineering student
HÉLÈNE COLGAN (1966–1989), mechanical engineering student
NATHALIE CROTEAU (1966–1989), mechanical engineering student
BARBARA DAIGNEAULT (1967–1989), mechanical engineering student
ANNE-MARIE EDWARD (1968–1989), chemical engineering student
MAUD HAVIERNICK (1960–1989), materials engineering student
MARYSE LAGANIÈRE (1964–1989), budget clerk, Polytechnique finance
MARYSE LECLAIR (1966–1989), materials engineering student
ANNE-MARIE LEMAY(1967–1989), mechanical engineering student
SONIA PELLETIER (1961–1989), mechanical engineering student
MICHÈLE RICHARD (1968–1989), materials engineering student
ANNIE ST-ARNEAULT (1966–1989), mechanical engineering student
ANNIE TURCOTTE (1969–1989), materials engineering student
BARBARA KLUCZNIK-WIDAJEWICZ (1958–1989), nursing student
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ALL AND ONE THEATRE WOULD LIKE TO THANK…

Our Supporters and Special Thanks

Carl, Nota, and the staff at Monkland Community Centre

Kabir Chowdhury and Star of India Restaurant

Lindsay and Scott McLeod for their constant support

Elyanne Desaulniers

Students of I.O. Acting & Creative Studio, past and present

Les Ateliers Fichaud et ses étudiant(e)s

Kim Gartshore and Geneviève La (our cherished ones)

…and thank you for coming.

Our Sponsors (click photos/links to visit)

Restaurant Star of India
5864 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, QC H4A 1X5
(514) 484-9252

A portion of the proceeds from this production will go towards an NDG women's charity.