Humanities Days: Ed’s Story: The Dragon Chronicles

Ed’s Story: The Dragon Chronicles

5:00pm – 6:30pm

IWK Health Centre - Parker Reception Room

Synopsis

16 year old Ed is a trickster, a skater, a gamer, a brother, son and friend. He’s the kid who moons the whole school on a dare and the guy who always sticks up for the underdog. Ed is a sensitive young man with an aggressive cancer. From Ed’s Journal entries, kept in his last 4 months of life and 25 interviews with his circle of family, friends, and healthcare team, a “verbatim” portrait is drawn of a boy on the verge of adulthood fighting not only a medical battle, but a battle to experience his life on his terms.

Directed by Simon Bloom

Written by Mary-Colin Chisholm

Produced by Dr. Gerri Frager

Review from the Atlantic Fringe Festival

Ed’s Story: The Dragon Chronicles is a piece of polished theatre that would shine on any stage, but is perfectly suited to the Fringe in that it requires very little in the way of set or props. It tells the true life of a young cancer patient through snippets of his journal and excerpts from interviews conducted with his friends, family and health care team after his death. IThis is the kind of theatre one dreams of seeing at the Fringe: moving, memorable and beautifully written, directed and produced.