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The Ballad of Georges Boivin at the Lunchbox Theatre (Calgary CAN)
“..a compelling, heartfelt trip through grief and friendship…pure theatrical magic…so powerful it tugs at the heart…” – Louis B. Hobson, The Calgary Herald
April 16 – May 5, 2024
Lunchbox Theatre (Calgary)
Our Success is Measured in the Success of Others 2024
Facelift
By Nathalie Boisvert
Translated to Italian by Carolina Migli
March 7 2024
Teatro Trieste 34
Piacenza Italy
Professional Development: SLAM!, a new multi-disciplinary circus creation by Robert Lepage, Ex Machina, and FLIP Fabrique. (Quebec, CAN)
“The director’s role is to facilitate the evocations and to organize the explored material into a coherent artistic proposal.”
Our success is measured in the success of others: French language premiere of Crawlspace (Toronto, CAN)
French Language Premiere
A Théâtre français de Toronto creation
CRAWLSPACE
By Karen Hines
Translated to French by Mishka Lavigne
April 19 to 23, 2023
New Translation Canada: Libre comme des sauvages
By Tara Beagan
Translated to French
by Charles Bender
Translated from free as injuns
“…invaluable to our Canadian repertoire at this moment in time…” – NOW
Oberammergau Passionsspiele: Exploring a Sacred Theatre (Part 8)
OBSERVING REHEARSALS – DAY 3 : HUMAN STORIES
There is something very German in the aesthetic. Despite the pageantry, ritual, and scale of this project, this is a story about human beings. Human beings are imperfect, messy, and clumsy.
Oberammergau Passionsspiele: Exploring a Sacred Theatre (Part 7)
OBSERVING REHEARSALS – DAY 2: FACING THE PAST
With the challenging history of passion plays and the contemporary history of the region, Oberammergau doesn’t hide from its past. Nor does it hide from its responsibilities.
Oberammergau Passionsspiele: Exploring a Sacred Theatre (Part 6)
OBSERVING REHEARSALS DAY 2 : EVOLVING TO MEET THE TIMES
Widely considered the best part, this year Judas is played this year by 22-year-old actor Cengiz Görür.
Oberammergau Passionsspiele: Exploring a Sacred Theatre (Part 5)
OBSERVING REHEARSALS DAY 2 : MUSIC AND TABLEAUX VIVANT
To maintain the unique traditional skill sets needed for the music, the village has multiple choirs and orchestras operating throughout the 10 year gaps between productions.
Oberammergau Passionsspiele: Exploring a Sacred Theatre – Part 4
INTERMISSION – EXPLORING OBERAMMERGAU
The passionsspiechele echoes through every aspect of Oberammergau. I walk down streets with names like “the kingdom of heaven” and “the way of the cross” or named after past writers and composers of the play.
OBERAMMERGAU PASSIONSSPIELE: EXPLORING A SACRED THEATRE (Part 3)
OBSERVING REHEARSALS – DAY 1
The first performance of the Passionsspiele in 1634 was performed on a simple wooden construction at the cemetery by the parish church. A symbol of victory over the plague in a meaningful location, the passion play took place over the fresh graves of plague victims.
Oberammergau Passionsspiele: Exploring a Sacred Theatre (Part 2)
OBERAMMERGAU
The Oberammergau Passionsspiele has been performed every 10 years since 1634 by the inhabitants of the Bavarian village of Oberammergau (Germany). The earliest continuous survivor of the age of Christian religions vernacular drama, it’s one of the longest running western performing arts traditions and a UNESCO event of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Oberammergau Passionsspiele: Exploring a Sacred Theatre (Part 1)
PROLOGUE or BACK ON THE ROAD
Perhaps because I’m watching an intergenerational creation with over a hundred community members, or perhaps because I’m watching a known innovator who values the traditional and sacred as well as the new, it seems right to write about another director, another ritual, and another village far from the Balinese sun.
2022: A Year in Review
Main Stage, New Translation & Cross Cultural Devised Creation from Vancouver to Indonesia
LA SALLE DES MACHINES
From the Source to the Target
Shinning a light on new translation
Thursday, November 17, 5 p.m.
Salle Jean-Claude-Germain du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui
3900 Saint-Denis, Montreal, H2W 2M2 Canada
Cross-Cultural Exchange & Creation: Bali, Indonesia
Western Theatre Force Collective & Sanggar Paripurna
Oct. – Nov. 2022
What happens when two cultural rivers come together in equal respect?
Active Access Design Labs. – New Writing
Towards an inclusive theatre.
Working closely with stakeholders in the community, Active Access Design Labs. examine how to integrate Access tools and Cross Sensory Translation directly into the generative process of theatre weaving access into the very fabric of a work.
Our success is measured in the success of others: The Loving Gaze of Lost Boys
Bouche Theatre Collective commissioned Rhiannon Collett’s translation of Éric Noël’s “Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés”. Rhiannon received the Cole Foundation Mentorship for Emerging Translators Award and just completed a translation residency with Maureen Labonte and Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal!
offenes terrain
flausen+fest der freien künste (Chemnitz, Germany)
October 7-10, 2022
New Translation Canada: Robert Moule by Martin Bellemare
Robert Moule
By Martin Bellemare | Translated to English by Jack Paterson
Free Digital Workshop Presentation
October 8, 2022
Crawlspace at Feuilles Vives
New Translation Canada’s success is measured in the success of others. Karen Hines’ Crawlspace, translated to French by Mishka Lavigne in a staged reading at Feuilles Vives (Ontario).