Index

• Playwright’s Note

• Artistic Director’s Note

• Director’s Note

• Credits and Acknowledgements

• The Company

• Board and Staff

• GCTC’s Partners

• Our Donors

Playwright’s Note

Sanita Fejzić

In writing Blissful State of Surrender, I have tried my best to approximate a realistic portrait of the Bosnian refugee-immigrant experience. The play attempts to translate things that cannot be spoken—to show the ghosts that haunt every survivor of the 1992-1995 Balkan War and genocide of my Muslim Bosniak people. 

To translate that which is beyond words is to stage the lived poetry of complex human experiences. Bosnian immigrants have a particular way of speaking that goes beyond the Slavic accent and echoes its unique warring, lamented, joyful and generous everyday poetics. The Bosnian refugee-immigrant’s imagination is as deep and complex as is their troubled history. From the medieval Bosnian state to the Ottoman rule, the Austro-Hungarian occupation, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, World War II, Tito’s Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the 1992-1995 genocide, Bosnians are scarred with beautiful and striking—even if deeply hurt—collisions with the past.

This play was written in honour of Šuhra Fejzić, moja rahmetli nena, my devotedly Muslim grandmother brutally murdered during the genocide. It honours the approximately 250,000 Bosnians killed, of whom 80% were Muslim Bosniaks. It remembers the approximately 50,000 Muslim Bosniak women and girls raped during the genocide, and their children. Finally, it was written for the 2.2 million Muslim, Catholic and Orthodox Bosnians who were forced into exile during the genocide, the largest exodus in Europe since World War II. The loss of connection to culture and country, and our mother tongue, remains a continued source of unrest and pain. May Blissful State of Surrender bring love, healing and hope for a world without war, genocide and other forms of organized violence.

As producer and playwright, I am indebted to many collaborators and organizations, including the National Arts Centre’s Sarah Garton Stanley, who opened the door for me by picking up Blissful State of Surrender for its 2018 March Mayhem Reading series. The brilliant Bronwyn Steinberg, who is also the Director of the play, made its development possible over a three-year period as Artistic Director of TACTICS. Her commitment and trust in me as playwright gave me the confidence to grow and flex my production muscles. As I formalized my Company, Blissful State Productions, a third door opened when I became Playwright in Residence at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in 2020-2021. With the help of Eric Coates, the most insightful and generous dramaturge, then Artistic Director of GCTC, I found the courage to introduce Bosnian in key scenes, lending the play authenticity and giving audiences an opportunity to hear my mother tongue. 

I also gratefully acknowledge the cast, production manager, stage manager, designers and consultants who have collaborated to help tell this story. I am enormously grateful for the support I have received from Sarah Kitz, GCTC’s new Artistic Director, and Hugh Neilson, its Managing Director, as well as the Theatre’s generous production team. From the bottom of my heart to everyone, including those I have not listed here: hvala vam!

Artistic Director’s Note

Sarah Kitz

Sanita Fejzić was playwright in residence at GCTC in the 2020/2021 season, and it is tremendously gratifying to see this full length work come to the stage due to Sanita’s monumental work as playwright as well as producer, with the support and partnership of TACTICS and GCTC. Since my first interaction with Sanita’s Blissful State of Surrender, I have been struck by her ability to craft an intergenerational domestic comedy out of political and personal trauma.

Although there is no comparison between the Siege of Sarajevo and the global pandemic we’ve been living through these last two years, we have probably all had an experience of being trapped inside with other people. In many instances this results in an emotional and psychological crucible from which it feels like there is no escape. What happens when you lose track of the world, when your social circle closes down to the people you’re in a room with? Frequently it causes us to become ossified in our positions, each of us understanding ourselves to have absolute authority over what is true. While this can make for tense living, it is also fertile ground for drama and comedy on stage. Sanita plays with this double siege: the siege of snow, trapping the family indoors together after so long apart, and the historical Siege that brings memory into the present moment, haunting the proceedings. 

Having lived through the Siege of Sarajevo with her family, Sanita brings clear-eyed familiarity to the devastation, showing the ways that people cope with trauma: how it moves through a family across time, manifesting differently in individuals, how the family celebrates in the face of loss, how they forget and remember and memorialize. Significantly, Sanita’s script looks at how this family clings to and breaks free of the old stories. It makes me think about the ways in which we are all haunted by stories that we aren’t finished with, or stories that aren’t finished with us. It asks us to consider how we live alongside our histories, and with those histories alongside each other.

Enjoy the show!

Director’s Note

Bronwyn Steinberg

Sue and Emir Bolić have painstakingly built a new life in Canada for their three daughters. Their suburban home is so completely removed from the Siege of Sarajevo and their subsequent time in Germany as “Tolerated Guests” (a status lower than refugee) that it might as well be a tiny model of a house inside a snow globe. But if this life is built upon the trauma and secrets of the past, what happens when we give the snow globe a shake? 

It’s such a privilege to ask these questions with the Bolić family and to be entrusted to work on this important and moving story. When Sanita first submitted Blissful State of Surrender for a workshop with TACTICS, as Artistic Director at the time, I knew we had something special. This family’s story is deeply specific to the trauma they have experienced, while being absolutely relatable. Parents struggling to understand the adults their children have grown into, sisters both supporting and tormenting each other, a close friend whose status in the family is questionable—we know these people; they’re us. This is a family with trauma from the past and secrets in the present, but through it all they have resilience built on their love.

With the Workshop Series stream of new play development at TACTICS, my hope and intention was always to be able to develop longer-term relationships with artists and their work. I’m truly thrilled that after TACTICS presented Blissful State of Surrender as part of the 2019 Workshop Series and developed it further through  2020 and 2021, it has now come to full realization here onstage at GCTC. It’s an especially sweet homecoming for me to get to direct this production. From interning with former Artistic Director Eric Coates to directing on this stage, GCTC has been such a significant part of my individual growth as an artist, which in turn helped me and my collaborators develop TACTICS into the organization it is now. It is deeply satisfying to see TACTICS and GCTC working together to present this season, and to work with this incredible team of artists on this production.

One thing I love about a heavy snowstorm is that it’s just understood that any plans you had are gone right out the window. The whole world slows down, and if possible, you just stay home. It necessitates a state of surrender, and we can only hope it will be blissful.

Credits and
Acknowledgements

Cast and Creative Team appear in alphabetical order.

Cast

Jidu | Anurag Choudhury

Emir | John Koensgen

Senka | Andrea Massoud

Agata | Danielle Savoie

Maja | Kate Smith

Suzana | Zvjezdana (Dana) Užarević

Creative Team

Composer | Suad Bushnaq

Stage Manager | Laurie Champagne

Playwright and Producer | Sanita Fejzić

Set & Lighting Designer | Jennifer Goodman

Costume Designer | Vanessa Imeson

Sound Designer | Venessa Lachance

Cultural Consultant | Jamaal Jackson Rogers

Production Manager | Laurie Shannon

Director | Bronwyn Steinberg

Assistant Stage Manager | Arielle Voght

Production Crew

Technical Director | Kyle Ahluwalia

Interim Head of Props | Patrice-Ann Forbes

Head of Wardrobe | Vanessa Imeson

Assistant Technical Director, Head of Carpentry | Jonah Maybear

Assistant Technical Director | Valerie-Josephine Trudel

In Memoriam: Russell Johnston

We would like to acknowledge and remember the life of Russell Johnston. Russell was a very active member of our volunteer community who passed away earlier this year. He was a dedicated volunteer who loved to help out on our opening night performances and was active at many arts events and organizations including GCTC, the NAC and the Ottawa Fringe, just to name a few.

Photo credit: Vera Kadar.

Please Note

• Blissful State of Surrender is approximately 120 minutes long (not including a 15-minute intermission).

• The use of cameras or recording devices is strictly prohibited.

• All cell phones and electronic devices must be turned off.

• Please don't walk in the performance area of the stage.

• Please keep your mask on at all times.

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The Company

Suad Bushnaq

Composer

Described as an “incredible artist” by the legendary Hans Zimmer, Suad is a prolific, award-winning Canadian composer of Bosnian, Syrian, and Palestinian roots who's active in the film and concert world. With more than 30 film credits and six major orchestral works to date, she has won several prestigious awards, including a Hollywood Music in Media Award, and a Best Original Score Award at the Fine Arts Film Festival of the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art in LA. Her music has been heard at major international film festivals such as Locarno, Dubai, Hot Docs, and Edinburgh, and performed at some of the world's most renowned concert venues like Konzerthaus Berlin and the BOZAR. She has recently been selected as one of 40 composers worldwide for the Cannes Film Festival-Marché du Film Spot the Composer Programme. Suad is the recipient of the 2021 Kathleen McMorrow Music Award; a merit-based award presented once a year by the Ontario Arts Foundation to a Canadian composer.

Laurie Champagne

Stage Manager

Laurie is so happy to accompany this blissful transition from Zoom workshop to onstage production. Previous credits with GCTC include Daisy (2020 and 2021) Lo (Or Dear Mr Wells);  The Virgin Trial; Ordinary Days; The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble; Janet Wilson Meets the Queen; Generous; The Public Servant; Circle, Mirror, Transformation; Carmen Aguirre’s Blue Box;  Strawberries in January;  The Shadow Cutter;  Heroes; and Helen’s Necklace. She stage manages for The National Arts Centre English Theatre and the National Arts Centre Orchestra as well as for theatres across the country. Laurie was Production Stage Manager for the Shaw Festival and Theatre Calgary.

Anurag Choudhury

as Jidu

Anurag Choudhury is an actor, musician, choreographer, and director based out of Toronto. His acting credits have kept him in the realm of Shakespeare and other classical styles of theatre (Commedia dell'arte, Opera). His other affinity remains with homegrown stories that require different levels of empathy, especially when story-writers are part of the production team—such was the case for this production. He wants to thank the entire production team for their tireless effort, especially when us actors had clocked out. This show would be nothing without you. Feel free to tell him what your favourite song is.

Sanita Fejzić

Playwright & Producer

Sanita Fejzić is a Bosnian-Canadian poet, novelist and playwright. At the age of seven, she fled the 1992-1995 genocide of her Bosniak (Muslim Bosnian) people and was a refugee across three countries for five years before immigrating to Canada in 1997. Blissful State of Surrender is her first play; it is a love letter to all Bosniak survivors of the Siege of Sarajevo and the family members we lost during the genocide. May Blissful State of Surrender bring peace, healing and love.

Jennifer Goodman

Set & Lighting Designer

Jennifer is delighted to be back at GCTC designing the set and lighting for Blissful State of Surrender, after a couple years of baking cookies, renovating her home, and dabbling in film and television. She is a set, costume and lighting designer with credits spanning the country, including seven seasons with Two Planks and a Passion in her native Nova Scotia. Recent(ish) credits include: Quiet! I’m Talking (STC), Calendar Girls, Stones in his Pockets (Neptune), The Horse and his Boy, The Magician’s Nephew, Wilde Tales (Shaw Festival), Hamlet (Below the Salt), Bang Bang, The Virgin Trial, Generous (GCTC), 1979 (Shaw/GCTC), and Beethoven Lives Upstairs (Grand.) www.jennifergoodman.ca

John Koensgen

as Emir

John last appeared onstage in Butcher in the Off-Mirvish series in Toronto. He was in the world premiere at Alberta Theatre Projects, in Toronto at The Theatre Centre and he was in the GCTC production. Over the years he has been in over 50 productions at GCTC. Other recent theatre: David Kilbride, On A First Name Basis (Country Roads Theatre Company); Malvolio, Twelfth Night (NAC); Alexander, No Great Mischief (Thousand Islands Playhouse, Gananoque) and Pearson/Ralston, Rexy (Neptune Theatre, Halifax). Recent film, TV and voice work: A Grown Up Christmas List (TV movie); Frankie Drake (5 episodes, CBC-Netflix); Mindfudge (1 episode, CBC Gem), Butcher (PlayMe Podcast, CBC Gem).

Vanessa Imeson

Costume Designer

Vanessa Imeson is an award-winning Theatre Artist holding a combined BA Honours degree in Dramatic Art and English from the University of Windsor, MFA in Theatre Design from the University of British Columbia and diploma for Makeup Design for Film and Television from Vancouver Film School. She designs costumes, make-up, wigs and puppets for a variety of collegiate programs and professional theatre companies across Canada while simultaneously acting as Head of Wardrobe for the GCTC. Vanessa is also a Core Artist and resident Designer with Ottawa's own A Company of Fools and Skeletonkey Theatre.

Venessa Lachance

Sound Designer

Venessa Lachance hails from a small French community in Northern Ontario and launched her musical career in Ottawa. Since her arrival in the capital, the young composer has worked as the music director for several theatre productions. Among these are Lo (Or Dear Mr Wells) and Daisy (GCTC, 2019 & 2021), Turcaret, or The Financier (Odyssey Theatre, 2014), Prosodie in Le promenoir (NAC’s Théâtre français, 2014), La fille d’argile and Le long de la principale (Théâtre la Catapulte, 2014 & 2016), and On verra (Théâtre du Trillium, 2016).  Venessa composed for Théâtre Tremplin for 6 years.  She was nominated for a Rideau Award in 2015 in the Emerging Artist of the Year category. In 2014, she released her first album consisting of solo piano compositions.  Venessa’s classical background and her interest in using music as a story-telling device can be heard throughout the narrative-like short pieces on the album. It’s to this recording that Venessa owes her Trille Or Award nomination in the Discovery of the Year category (2015).

Andrea Massoud

as Senka

Andrea (she/her) is a Toronto-based artist, originally from Ottawa. She could not be more thrilled to be making her GCTC debut, sharing this beautiful story with all of you. Select credits include: A - Towards Rebirth (Shakespeare in the Ruff); Benvolio - Romeo and Juliet (Company of Fools); Beatrice – Much Ado about Nothing (Grand Bank Theatre); Maria – Twelfth Night, Jessica – Merchant of Venice (Ale House Theatre Company); Ida –The Boat Show (Lost Souls Collective); Hanna – Miss Shakespeare (Three Sisters Company). Welcome back to the theatre, everyone!

Jamaal Jackson Rogers

Cultural Consultant

Jamaal Jackson Rogers is an award winning poet, arts educator, creative entrepreneur, and performance artist. As a poet, he was selected to be Ottawa's first English Poet Laureate after 27 years in which the position had gone unfilled, while his career in arts education has earned him 2016's Ontario Arts Educator Award. He has brought his practice to audiences locally and internationally and his defining moments are when he makes intimate connections with his participants during workshop exchanges and performance sets. His topics range from emotional maturity to social justice, from parenting to the human condition, and has been highlighted in festivals, documentaries and educational institutions across the world. He resides in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife and six children, using the national capital region as his launch pad to teach, mentor and advocate for the arts.

Danille Savoie

as Agata

Danielle Savoie is an Ottawa-based performer and graduate of the Honours Major Specialization in Theatre program from the University of Ottawa. She has participated in many TACTICS script workshops of Blissful State of Surrender since 2019 and is thrilled to finally put this beautiful play on its feet at the GCTC. Some of her acting credits include 2084 at the Ottawa Fringe Festival, Listen to me at the Undercurrents Festival, Joseph and Amarise at the Fresh Meat Theatre Festival, and As You Like It with Bear & Co. performed in parks and outdoor venues across Ottawa. 

Laurie Shannon

Production Manager

Laurie is thrilled to return to GCTC after working on Dancing with Rage (2014), The Mouse That Roared (2016), Gracie (2018) and The Drowning Girls (2018) in various roles backstage. Other credits include Production Manager for the Ottawa Fringe Festival, Theatre 4.669 and the National Arts Centre Orchestra; Stage Manager for Woyzeck’s Head (Third Wall Theatre Company presented by TACTICS), The Elephant Girls (Parry Riposte Productions) and Living the unDesirable Life (Propeller Dance). Laurie is exceptionally grateful to Seth Gerry for being so generous with his time and wisdom throughout the production process.

Kate Smith

as Maja

Kate Smith trained as an actor and singer (Dalhousie University) and has performed on stages across the country. She is an award-winning theatre creator and Artistic Director of Skeleton Key Theatre. In 2021 the company was specially selected to participate in the Grand Acts of Theatre with Deluge presented by the National Arts Centre’s English Theatre. In the same year it released Deluge as an audio album (available on all streaming platforms) and a visual album at the 2021 undercurrents festival. In 2018 Skeleton Key’s innovative immersive play Swan River was nominated for a Prix Rideau Award for Best New Creation and received two productions that year, and was recently adapted as a podcast for families. Previously for GCTC: Ashley in The Virgin Trial by Kate Hennig; Director of GCTC/CCLA Lawyer Plays War of Two Worlds (2019) and The Case of the Careless Client/The Case of the Big Top Murders (2021). Kate is a freelance director and performer, and is a Member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. www.skeletonkeytheatre.com

Photo Credit: Kamara Morozuk Photography

Bronwyn Steinberg

Director

Bronwyn is delighted to return to both TACTICS and GCTC to direct Blissful State of Surrender. Bronwyn is a theatre director and community builder; she’s passionate about making theatre an inclusive gathering space where stories are shared that celebrate the diversity of human experience. She made her home in Ottawa for twelve years and is the founding Artistic Director of TACTICS. She is currently based in Calgary where she is the Artistic Director of Lunchbox Theatre. An award-winning freelance director, Ottawa credits include The Drowning Girls and Bang Bang (GCTC), The Revolutionists and Miss Shakespeare (Three Sisters Theatre), Twelfth Night (A Company of Fools) and Raising Stanley / Life with Tulia—a multimedia storytelling collaboration with Kim Kilpatrick and Karen Bailey that started in the GCTC Studio and has toured to the undercurrents festival, Next Stage (Toronto), UNO Fest (Victoria) and FemFest (Winnipeg). She has worked as an assistant director at the Stratford Festival and the Shaw Festival and is a member of both the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab (2018 & 2019) and Directors Lab North (2020).

Zvjezdana (Dana) Užarević

as Suzana

Zvjezdana (Dana) Užarević holds a B.A. in theatre from the University of Ottawa. She was General Manager of Odyssey Theatre and Interim Producer of English Theatre at the National Arts Centre. Dana performed with Odyssey’s touring troupe Lazzi Lazzi and Broken English Theatre Company, taught acting at Ottawa School of Speech and Drama, and worked in Stage Management for the National Arts Centre and the Great Canadian Theatre Company. Dana is excited to be back at GCTC, where she got her very first theatre job. She is grateful to Janet Irwin for introducing her to this project, to Sanita Fejzić for this beautiful and touching story, to all amazing artists working with her on this production, and to her family for always supporting her.

Arielle Voght

Assistant Stage Manager

Arielle is a young emerging theater artist and is excited to be working with the GCTC and TACTICS for the first time. Growing up in Ottawa she discovered and developed a passion for theater in high school as a performer and working backstage. She recently returned to Ottawa after graduating from York University's Theater Production and Design program, with a focus on costume design, construction and theater management. Past work includes; Assistant Artistic Director for Theater@York’s 2020/2021 playGround Festival, Stage Manager for Jew(ish) a graduate student production, Costume Designer for Reimagined, a costume exhibit in response to Covid-19 restrictions, Props Manager for Odyssey Theater’s The Bonds of Interest and Wardrobe Manager for Theater@York’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). In her free time, you can find her at her sewing machine, designing clothes, painting and spending time with her dog.

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