Thursday
Feb252010
Announcing A(nother) Verb Show in May
Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 3:27PM
By Col
This May we're teaming up with the PBC Art Collective and The Mustard Seed Street Shelter to create The Evolving Play Project (show title to come).
I'll join the PBCers (Aviva, Matt, and Hannah) for a six week residency at The Mustard Seed shelter where we'll be working with the Mustard Seed Drama group, a collection of about six residents of the shelter. We're going to be exploring collective creation with the group, focused mainly on interpreting a classical text; deconstructing and re-examining it to create parallels between this beautiful, elevated text and contemporary life on Calgary's streets and inside its shelters. We're still in the process of choosing which script will act as our launching off pad, stay tuned for that news. (and actually we're quite open to recommendations, feel free to comment below.)
Here's one of the things I'm most excited about... Nearing the end of the residency in May we'll be performing our work at both The Mustard Seed and at the EPCOR Centre's MOTEL. I think this is so potentially awesome. For one, the performances at The Seed are open to everyone, folks who live there and the general Calgary public. It's a chance for anyone who cares to to come see this creation in the environment that it was created in. I can't imagine how that added context will affect the audiences (and by the audience I mean hopefully yours) experience, but I bet it'll add a level of excitement and immediacy to the work. And then we'll move up to The MOTEL for a few pay-what-you-can shows. We all know that every day homeless people come into The EPCOR Centre and are almost immediately kicked out (whether or not that's a right thing to have happen is a discussion for another post) but with a PWYC show it gives homeless Calgarians an opportunity to come in, sit down, and enjoy the show as a fully legitimate audience member. It's pay-what-you-can and if you can't pay a dime but your there because you want to see and experience some theatre, well then to me you've fulfilled your contract as an audience member just by showing up.
I'm thrilled about this project and Verb's first collaboration with the PBC collective and The Mustard Seed. (I say first for I hope there are many more to come) As the pre-residency work continues and then we get down and dirty in the creation hall I'll blog about the process. I can't wait to get started, the emotional weight that comes out of this work can be levelling and it's going to be a great time.
I'll keep you posted, anyone wants to know more just let me know.
This May we're teaming up with the PBC Art Collective and The Mustard Seed Street Shelter to create The Evolving Play Project (show title to come).
I'll join the PBCers (Aviva, Matt, and Hannah) for a six week residency at The Mustard Seed shelter where we'll be working with the Mustard Seed Drama group, a collection of about six residents of the shelter. We're going to be exploring collective creation with the group, focused mainly on interpreting a classical text; deconstructing and re-examining it to create parallels between this beautiful, elevated text and contemporary life on Calgary's streets and inside its shelters. We're still in the process of choosing which script will act as our launching off pad, stay tuned for that news. (and actually we're quite open to recommendations, feel free to comment below.)
Here's one of the things I'm most excited about... Nearing the end of the residency in May we'll be performing our work at both The Mustard Seed and at the EPCOR Centre's MOTEL. I think this is so potentially awesome. For one, the performances at The Seed are open to everyone, folks who live there and the general Calgary public. It's a chance for anyone who cares to to come see this creation in the environment that it was created in. I can't imagine how that added context will affect the audiences (and by the audience I mean hopefully yours) experience, but I bet it'll add a level of excitement and immediacy to the work. And then we'll move up to The MOTEL for a few pay-what-you-can shows. We all know that every day homeless people come into The EPCOR Centre and are almost immediately kicked out (whether or not that's a right thing to have happen is a discussion for another post) but with a PWYC show it gives homeless Calgarians an opportunity to come in, sit down, and enjoy the show as a fully legitimate audience member. It's pay-what-you-can and if you can't pay a dime but your there because you want to see and experience some theatre, well then to me you've fulfilled your contract as an audience member just by showing up.
I'm thrilled about this project and Verb's first collaboration with the PBC collective and The Mustard Seed. (I say first for I hope there are many more to come) As the pre-residency work continues and then we get down and dirty in the creation hall I'll blog about the process. I can't wait to get started, the emotional weight that comes out of this work can be levelling and it's going to be a great time.
I'll keep you posted, anyone wants to know more just let me know.
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