Department of Theatre unveils new season line-up
The Department of Theatre has unveiled its 2010-2011 season to highlight its disciplines: design for theatre, performance, playwriting, theatre and development.
Raymond Marius Boucher, Artistic Director, outlines the philosophy to select the plays according to the season’s theme: the eternal battle between good and evil.
“Our idea was to look at the season as a whole,” says Boucher. “We wanted to work with a team of writers and directors who we felt would embrace the season with a certain sense of unity in their creation and direction.”
Who/Nani/Qui (MB 7-270, Nov. 25 to 28, 2010)
A new piece created by a student ensemble under the guidance of Professor Rachael Van Fossen (who also directs the play), Who/Nani/Qui challenges assumptions of racial, gender and other areas of identity difference.
Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights (D.B. Clarke Theatre, Dec. 2 to 5, 2010)
Visiting director Nathalie Claude explores Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights, which examines Man’s uneasy relationship between right and wrong, and tackles the human assumption of godlike powers.
“The play was written during the transition between the old dark world and the birth of the modern, technology-illuminated present,” says Claude. “It expresses a simultaneous excitement and wariness about light everlasting.”
ViStA/The Darwin Project (Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Feb. 10 to 13, 2011)
Graduate student Ralph Denzer’s ViStA/The Darwin Project is a multimedia theatre/music performance based on the life and ideas of Charles Darwin, and theories of evolution and biotechnology.
Scorched (D.B. Clarke Theatre, Apr. 14 to 17, 2011)
New York-based visiting artist Vernice Miller was deeply moved by Scorched, written by Wajdi Mouawad and translated by Linda Gaboriau, and did not hesitate to accept an offer to direct at Concordia. Scorched showcases the uneasy dynamic of a troubled family when immigrant twins make separate journeys to their mother’s birthplace, a war-torn Middle Eastern country, to track down the father they thought had died and the brother they never knew.
SIPA/Short Works Festival (Nov. 11-14 & Mar. 10-13, Cazalet Studio)
Rounding out the season are two runs of Student-initiated Production Assignments performances for which students develop their own projects.
For more information about the Department of Theatre’s 2010-2011 program, visit http://theatre.concordia.ca.