presents

Jeff Page

23 characters. One actor. The Wide Screen Millennium Edition.

Love Letters from the Unabomber, written by decorated Fringe veterans Wes Borg (PileDriver!, Ha!, Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie) and Jeff Page (PileDriver!, The Granite Man & the Butterfly, Popcorn), is set to detonate with an explosive re-mastering of the 1997 specu-mentary.

Love Letters from the Unabomber was originally staged at the 1997 Edmonton Fringe Festival, where it received unanimous critical acclaim and Sterling Award nominations for Outstanding Production, Writing, Direction and Acting.

The complete story, however, had not yet been told...

The Special Wide-Screen Millennium Edition promises never before seen footage, including clips from the Weibo Ludwig trial, Ted Kaczinski's shocking prison suicide attempt, and the recent purchase and renovation of the Mir Space Station for use as an orbiting tourist attraction.

Rocketing beyond time and reality, Love Letters from the Unabomber careens through the minds of a myriad of

lonely men, including:

· Theodore Kaczinski, the convicted Unabomber, who once lived in a ten by ten shack without electricity or plumbing, and now resides in a ten by ten cell with electricity and plumbing.

· David Kaczinski, who reported his own brother to the F.B.I., argued in court against execution, and used the million dollar reward to aid victims of the crimes.

· Sergei Krikalev, a cosmonaut from Leningrad, whose six month mission aboard the space station Mir in 1991 dragged on for nearly a year while the Soviet Union collapsed below him.

· Jeff Page, who performs the play alone, virtually reliving a trip to Moscow in 1992, where he rehearsed the role of Snowball the Pig in an ill-fated remount of Moscow Theatre Igroky's Animal Farm, and suffered a hellish "treatment" for a head and chest cold.

The script draws from Joseph Conrad (whose The Secret Agent is believed to be Kaczinski's bombing manual), the Internet (an inter-connected compendium of lies, half-truths and pornography), Ted's hate-mail to his family, and the authors' own imaginations.

BIOGRAPHIES

Wes Borg is a native Edmontonian who is best known for his many years with Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie. The Trolls have performed from coast to coast, recorded two CDs, won two Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, sold out many, many Fringe shows, and even had their own national TV show on the CBC. Wes wrote last year's Fringe sensations PileDriver! with Darrin Hagen, Ha! with Christopher Craddock, and F*#K, Yes! (adapted from the novel by Wing Fu Fing). Other writing credits include The War of 1812 with Paul Mather, Rednecks with Andy Curtis from One Yellow Rabbit, and Dunk for Ron Jenkins at Fringe Theatre Adventures.

Jeff Page is an Edmonton based actor who performed last season in Popcorn and The Aberhart Summer at the Citadel Theatre, A Guide to Mourning at Theatre Network, Homesick for Workshop West and Naomi's Road for Concrete Theatre. He won an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for his performance of the bitchy yet caring referee in PileDriver! (the 1999 Fringe hit by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie and Guys in Disguise). Since 1997, he has been a co-writer and the voice of Doug McClure on CBC Radio One's ongoing serial The Specialists.

In 1992, Jeff moved to Edmonton from Seattle, following seven months of working with the Moscow Theatre Igroky in Russia and Canada.

In 1998, Wes and Jeff collaborated on an adaptation of Pierre Sinclaire's book The Granite Man & the Butterfly, a forty character solo performance about a real Canadian building a real perpetual motion space ship. That show was honoured with Sterling Award nominations for Outstanding Fringe Production, Writing and Acting.