As You Lay Sleeping is an experimental musical about a woman slowly untangling her obsession with romantic love. As she collects all the pieces of a broken relationship, she comes to terms with the fact that maybe she'll never be able to get it right because it's all wrong to begin with. We follow her as she breaks up with her sleeping boyfriend, attends an imaginary wedding, and moves on.
Between love and everything else.
“I didn’t sleep, I counted your breaths.”
A bookended live and pre-recorded feature length experience that interweaves original music, dance, theatre, and film. The production was the winner of the Digital Adams Prize for Musical Theatre and featured as part of the Digital Toronto Fringe Festival’s Primetime series in July 2021. Clips available upon request.
Diapause Collective
in association with The Toronto Fringe Festival presents
As You Lay Sleeping
written, composed, & performed by Amelia Izmanki
directed by Matthew Moir & Matisse ApSimon-Megens
filmed by Matthew Moir
choreographed by Jake Poloz
sound recorded and mixed by Louie Short
featuring Amelia Izmanki, Sully Malaeb Proulx, Barbara Hankins, Gab Izma, & Maggie Smith