Verb Theatre 2011/12 Season
Something feels different…
Verb Theatre is pleased to announce our 2011/12 Season, full of exciting theatrical experiments and provocative Calgarian stories. Featuring three brand new creations, the 2011/12 Season explores the many faces of change. A DJ loses his hearing in Noise, forcing him to find new ways of experiencing music, while in Jim Forgetting, Donna watches her marriage begin to fracture when her husband Jim is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. A young Calgarian boy finds himself orphaned and alone in a city as hard as it is magical in A Thousand and One Calgarian Nights, closing off our season as part of the Calgary International Children’s Festival. So whether you’re flying on magic carpet or experiencing sound through vibrations in the floorboards, join us this season and feel something different!
Noise
A Work in Creation
Conceived by Jamie Dunsdon
A nightclub DJ loses his hearing but finds a soulmate.
A status update wins an election.
A family dissolves one word at a time.
It’s noise. And it’s everywhere…
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Created with the Bitter Suite Society and featuring musical direction by Kris Demeanor, Noise is a jagged, pulsing exploration of that which distracts us most from the things that really matter. Starring several of Calgary’s finest professional actors, dancers, and musicians, as well as actors from Calgary’s Deaf community, Noise is a vibration-based musical for both Deaf and hearing audiences. This work-in-process will start thumping away in November 2011, and will see a Calgary stage in October 2012. Stay tuned for information about upcoming public presentations and staged readings.
Jim Forgetting
a world premiere
by Col Cseke
March 20 – 31, 2012
8:00pm nightly,
2:00pm Sunday matinees
MOTEL, Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts
Jim Forgetting is an unflinching portrait of a year in the life of Jim and Donna, a middle-aged couple struggling with Jim’s early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. While watching her husband slowly disappear, Donna is left to ask: can love exist without memory? When love is composed of moments remembered and dreams shared, what happens to a marriage when memories fade and futures disappear? An unforgettable story of one woman’s heart-wrenching decision.
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This world premiere features an epilogue created by playwright Col Cseke with Calgarian Alzheimer’s patients, exploring their sense of house and home.
A Thousand and One Calgarian Nights
May 24-26, 2012
Calgary International Children’s Festival
In a new adaptation, the 1001 Arabian Nights stories are re-set in a mythical Canadian west. Calgary’s finest actors share the stage with youth from a wide range of social, economic, and racial backgrounds, A Thousand and One Calgarian Nights tells the tale of Aladdin, an orphan battling loss and destiny, while questing after a mythical prairie bird.
Full of magic and puppets, adventure and tragedy, A Thousand and One Calgarian Nights fills the stage with genies, wild creatures, and thousands of rubber bouncy balls.
Col Cseke
Christian Goutsis
Jamie Dunsdon
Braden Griffiths