Bouche Theatre Collectve in association with East 15 Actine School & University of Essex
INTERNATIONAL DEVISED CREATION
ODYSSEY
Inspired by the poem by Homer Devised and Created by the International Ensemble Conceived of & Directed by Jack Paterson The Corbett Theatre (London, UK)
“…an astonishing show!” Simon Usher, Director (RSC, Royal Court, The Print Room)
“…an impressive production of a complex text, delivered with tremendous skill and polish.” Stephen Unwin, Artistic Director (The Rose Theatre)
Odysseus’ epic journey home from the ashes of Troy. After ten years at war, a man is lost, wandering the ocean, pursued by the vengeful storm god Poseidon in a desperate quest to return home in a tale of heroes, gods and monsters in a fusion of dance, song, movement, found object puppetry and poetry.
CREATIVE TEAM Featuring: Allegra Ceccarelli, Ivan Comisso, Connor Eastmon, Ming Hudson, Alariza Nevarez, Ruth Tinker, Luna Tosin and Timothy Vest
Set and Costume Designed by Mila Sanders | Sound Design by Sean Evans
” …Tremblay’s pen, sometimes crying out, sometimes whispering, is always poetic and full of life, death, and music.” – François Dallaire, Être en ligne
TA GUEULE STAGED READING SERIES Contemporary works in translation from across Canada.
English Language Premiere CHILD OBJECT (L’ENFANT MATIÈRE)
By Larry Tremblay
Translated by Chantal Bilodeau
Directed by Gilles Poulin-Denis
Featuring Art Kitching
With child as a blank page, a man sets about constructing his ideal companion manipulating personality, gender and body. The child becomes the ultimate consumer good.
Tickets: Pay What You Can at the Door
Where:
The Cultch: The Vancity Culture Lab, 1895 Venables St
Larry Tremblay is a writer, director, actor and kathakali specialist. He is the author of over twenty books and is one of Quebec’s most produced and most translated playwrights. His work is noted for the diversity of genres it explores.
In 2001 his play The Ventriloquist had three separate productions, in Paris, Brussels and Montreal. The Montreal production, under the direction of Claude Poissant, garnered six “Gala des Masques” nominations, including Best New Play, and won the Masque for Best Production. The Ventriloquist, already translated into eight languages, has had recent productions in Turino, Mexico, Toronto, Ottawa, Bucarest and London (U.K.). Thanks to an uninterrupted succession of new plays (Anatomy Lesson, Ogre, The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi, The Genie of Drolet Street, Blue Hands, Soap, Bagpipes, Panda Panda…) Tremblay’s work continues to achieve international recognition. A Chair in love created with composer John Metcalf was the fourth of his works presented on stage in Montreal in 2006, following Three Seconds when the Seine Stopped Flowing, The Story of a Heart, and The Axe which he also directed. In 2007 he shared the stage with Carl Béchard performing in two of his shorter plays The Decline of Destiny and The Trouble with Me.
His novel The Bicycle Eater, published by Leméac, was unanimously saluted by the critics, won the Prix Roman 2003 at the Salon du Livres in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. In 2006 he was awarded the Canada Council Victor-Martyn-Lynch-Staunton Prize for his contribution to the theatre. Gallimard Paris published Piercing, a collection of three of his short stories. In 2008, Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre premiered at Espace Go in Montreal, directed by Claude Poissant (Théâtre Pàp), and was nominated for Best Production 2007-2008 (Montreal) by the Quebec Critics Association.
Larry Tremblay was finalist in 2008 and in 2011 for the Siminovitch Prize. In 2010, Alberta Theatre Project produced at Calgary AbrahamLincoln Goes the Theatre, translated by Chantal Bilodeau, under the direction of Bob White. The same year, his play The Dragonfly ofChicoutimi was directed by Claude Poissant at the Festival TransAmériques (FTA), in Montreal. In 2012, SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques), in partnership with France Culture, awarded his play, WarCantata, the Prix SADC for best world play written in French and CEAD (Centre des auteurs dramatiques) awarded it the Le Prix Michel- Tremblay for the best play written in Quebec in 2012. Still in 2012, his play Child Object was staged in Quebec City by Christian Lapointe. Apart from his plays, Larry Tremblay published recently two novels highly acclaimed, The Obese Christ and The Orange Grove.
Until 2009, Larry Tremblay was teaching acting and dramatic writing at l’École supérieure de théâtre de l’Université du Québec à Montréal.
“…the work of a lifetime.” – M. Rivet et G. Moffet, Journal VOIR
TA GUEULE STAGED READING SERIES Contemporary works in translation from across Canada.
FLOTSAM (ÉCUME) By Anne-Marie White
Translated by Louis Patrick Leroux
Directed by Heidi Taylor
English Language Premiere
Adam refuses to believe in anything that science cannot prove then he meets Stella, a beautiful fish girl, and a trip to the sea to meet her dead mother. A journey along the winding rivers and up the rapids to dive into the human heart.
Tickets: Pay What You Can at the Door
When: May 17th – 2:30 PM
Where:
The Cultch: The Vancity Culture Lab, 1895 Venables St
In association with The Indonesian Arts Institute Denpasar
WASTING TIME
Cross Cultural Exchange & Creation 2014
Conceived of by by Jack Paterson Devised with the Creative Ensemble
A cross-cultural and cross-lingual experience, Wasting Time was a fusion of Traditional Balinese Performing Arts and contemporary Western Devising Practices created to explore the space between temple, government and tourist driven performance – that of the contemporary Balinese voice.
The ensemble consisted of Balinese artists from multiple disciplines including Wayang (Shadow Puppetry); Barris, Topeng and Joged (Dance); and Genjek & Kecat (Vocal Chant & Song). Applied to these practices where modern devising practices including Verbatim, Site-Specific and Physical and Textual Creation.
Performed in an outdoor found space free for the local community, the performance explored the contemporary issues facing modern Balinese living from Motorcycle traffic jams, corruption, lack of potable water and that wonderful Balinese activity – wasting time.
