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The damage is done

"The Damage is Done is performed with courage, grace, compassion, humour, joy and energy.”
– PLANK MAGAZINE

The Damage is Done: A True Story combines theatre, dialogue, essay, video, music and dance into a multi-layered performance. Featuring Dr. Gabor Maté onstage with performer and writer Rita Bozi, the show weaves together the story of three different Gabors, all of whom emigrated from Hungary to Canada and shaped Bozi’s life. The audience is taken on a journey from a failed Revolution to a family in conflict, from The National Ballet School to Canadian punk rocker BB Gabor, exploring the impact of intergenerational and historical trauma.

“Bozi is an extraordinary storyteller.”
– John Jane
“She’s a live wire of a physical performer.”
– Vancouver Sun
“The Damage is Done is performed with courage, grace, compassion, humour, joy and energy.”
– Plank Magazine

My Fair Lady - The Punk Version

“I read your story My Fair Lady and it’s so great! Beautifully written, truly, and sad and soulful… …it’s so sweetly gratifying to read something great from a new writer.”
– Miriam Toews
A graphic for My Fair Lady - The Punk Version

Based on a true story (or almost truth) My Fair Lady – The Punk Version blurs the lines between reality and fiction. Set in 1985 Winnipeg and San Francisco this narrative-driven short-story-photo-video-movement-performance is a brash modern take on Pygmalion foreshadowing the #metoo movement of today.

Providing a dual perspective, Jodie’s coming of age story is told by 52-year-old Rita and the fictitious Jodie herself: the innocent young dancer turned punk juxtaposed with the woman she eventually matures into. Bozi performs Jodie, Adam (her mentor), Keith (her boyfriend), Christine (her San Fran lover) and a host of other characters in this sometimes unsettling look at sexual manipulation and gender oppression, ultimately ending in Jodie’s own self-orchestrated liberation.

Originally performed in Vancouver and Iceland, the Reykjavik Grapevine called it, “gritty and compelling,” stating that, “it reverberates with the stirrings of revolution and the spirit of change.”

The productions brims with the best of the New Wave music genre and pays tribute to the grandparents of punk; Patti Smith, Marianne Faithful, The Velvet Underground and The Residents. The show also includes ninety personal photos and artifacts of that era placed one on top of another as the story unfolds. Projected on the set they create layers of meaning and tension between characters.

The current instalment of My Fair Lady – The Punk Version performed to four sold out audiences in February 2018, at Next Stage, as part of a new initiative of Theatre Junction Grand.