Kezia comes alive

Katherine Mansfield’s Prelude and Carnation are amongst four of the writer’s short stories adapted for theatre and performed by Toronto’s Theatre Smith-Gilmour, celebrated for their stage adaptations of Chekhov. The Mansfield Project was created by Dean Gilmour and Michelle Smith. Gilmour says there is something about Mansfield’s life that resonates for him. “She captures the dance of life and death with the same unsentimental eye for essential detail,” he says. Co-artistic director Michelle Smith says: “Her passion for life intoxicates with images, scents and the tactile, like a garden in summer.” The Mansfield Project opens March 18 at Factory’s Studio Theatre, Toronto and runs through April 13.