A Palace of Magpies - June 21 Performance

A Palace of Magpies - June 21 Performance

Join us for the newly devised production, A Palace of Magpies, created during GRT's National Devised Theatre Intensive.

By Ghost River Theatre

Date and time

Starts on Fri, Jun 21, 2024 7:30 PM MDT

Location

West Village Theatre

2007 10 Avenue Southwest Calgary, AB T3C 0K4 Canada

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About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

    3-Week National Devised Theatre Intensive Staged Performance


    A Palace of Magpies

    A NEW MYTH ABOUT HOUSE AND HOME

    An ensemble of 11 domestic and international artists have gathered at Ghost River Theatre and created a work-in-progress performance which centres movement, music, and theatrical design. This 30-minute piece decontructs the mythologies of home and its relationship with time. The performers weave together sound, shadow, and song in a collage of different perspectives of what home is.

    Led by Ghost River Theatre’s Artistic Director Eric Rose and international performance designer and educator Snežana Pešić during GRT’s biennial National Devised Theatre Intensive, the cohort has interrogated the complexities and potentials of a guided, complete devised production process, from initial idea to public presentation, in 3 weeks of intensive hands-on-creation.

    Eric Rose, Director

    Snežana Pešić, Performance Designer

    Creative Collaborators: Megan Brightwell, Annika Danielson, Alexandra Dodd, Eleanor Felton, Emily Heinek, Erin Howley, Lara Lewis, Lucas Skjaret, Eilse Tigges, Tauran Wood, Ciarán Volke

    Program Sponsor: Sentinel Storage

    When: 7:30 PM Friday, June 21st | Lobby opens at 7:00 PM

    Where: West Village Theatre 2007 10 Ave SW

    The production will be approximately 30 minutes.

    Ticket prices are by donation.


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    Ghost River Theatre

    “ ...NO ONE IS BETTER AT MOUNTING A TOTALLY UNIQUE AND EXQUISITELY CREATIVE PIECE OF WORK THAN GHOST RIVER THEATRE.”  

    Jessica Goldman, CBC Radio Reviewer

    ABOUT GHOST RIVER THEATRE

    Led by Artistic Director Eric Rose and Executive Director Kate Stadel, GRT is an award winning devised theatre company that creates, develops and mounts original productions through a significant investment in imaginative research and development. We make our work in a rigorous, supportive collaborative-creation environment that recognizes and utilizes the unique abilities of all participants, premiering our work in Calgary and then touring it nationally and internationally. Our work embraces a hybrid of high tech visual spectacle with low-fi theatrical magic. 

    Over our 26 year history, our unique creation process has yielded an impressive roster of critically acclaimed productions: Mesa, Eye for an Eye, ONE, The Highest Step in the World, The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, Tomorrow’s Child amongst many others. GRT has created and toured some of the most thoughtful, daring, imaginative, and seemingly impossible work that this country has produced.  With a keen desire to create, to engage and to push the boundaries of live performance GRT has established itself firmly as a leader in the Calgary, Alberta, and national cultural ecologies. As a cultural leader, Ghost River Theatre in February 2014 joined together with Calgary Young People’s Theatre and Green Fools Physical Theatre to create and run The West Village Theatre an 80-seat black box performance and administrative space located in the Sunalta area of Calgary.

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