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FemFest
Sarasvàti Productions, often stylized Sarasvati Productions, was a Canadian feminist theatre company. Sarasvati hosts several annual events including the International Women's Week ''Cabaret of Monologues'', ''One Night Stand'', and FemFest. History Sarasvati Productions was founded in 1998 in Toronto and permanently relocated to Winnipeg in 2000. The company was founded by Hope McIntyre who named it after the Hindu goddess, Saraswati. In 2003, Sarasvati launched their International Women's Week ''Cabaret of Monologues.'' The cabaret features monologues from local artists pertaining to the annual theme. In 2008, the ''Cabaret of Monologues'' expanded to include touring across Manitoba. In 2017, Sarasvati relaunched their ''One Night Stand'' series. ''One Night Stand'' features ten-minute snippets from plays written by local playwrights. In 2020, McIntyre stepped down as artistic director and Frances Koncan was appointed the incoming artistic director. Koncan resigned in March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope McIntyre
Hope McIntyre is a Canadian playwright, theatre creator, and professor. She was the founding artistic director of Sarasvati Productions and served as the company's artistic director until 2020. Early life and education McIntyre was born and raised in Saskatchewan. McIntyre obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Saskatchewan and, later, a Masters of Fine Arts in Directing from the University of Victoria. She proposed directing María Irene Fronés' '' Fefu and Her Friends'' as part of her MFA thesis project but was told by male faculty advisors that the play's feminism was dated and that it would be too difficult to cast given the large number of female actors required. McIntyre later trained at ARTTS International. Career McIntyre worked at Rare Gem Productions, an international commercial theatre producer, in Toronto in the late nineties. McIntyre founded Sarasvati Productions in Toronto in 1998 but moved the theatre company to Winnipeg in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Theatre
Feminist theater grew out of the wider Political theater of the 1970s, and continues to the present. It can take on a variety of meanings, but the constant thread is the lived experience of women. History Various women's theaters started up in the 1970s and 1980s, an outgrowth of the political and social activism of the times. Early leaders included Michelene Wandor, Martha Boesing, Caryl Churchill and The Women's Theater Group (renamed as Sphinx Theatre Company in 1999) in London. During the 1970s and 1980s, feminist or women's theater was a specific, new type of theater. Since then, the theater genre itself has opened itself up to women's viewpoints. Some felt that it was no longer necessary to have a separate genre, because of increased parity. Many groups folded. However, even with that increased parity, men's roles continue to outweigh women's roles in mainstream theater, and the situations and challenges facing women continue to be severe. There are currently a large number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caryl Churchill
Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non- naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.Caryl Churchill profile ''Encyclopædia Britannica''; accessed 26 January 2018. Celebrated for works such as '' Cloud 9'' (1979), '''' (1982), '''' (1987), '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Festivals In Manitoba
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Establishments In Manitoba
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghanistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women In Theatre
A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardless of age. Typically, women inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, SRY-gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. A fully developed woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. Women have significantly less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Througho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouthpiece (play)
''Mouthpiece'' is a 2015 Canadian feminist play by Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken of Quote Unquote Collective. Development Sadava and Nostbakken began working on the play in 2013. The play received dramaturgy from Orian Michaeli and features music composed by Nostbakken. The script was later published by Coach House Books with an introduction from Michele Landsberg. Plot ''Mouthpiece'' is a two-person play in which both actors play the same character, Cassandra. Cassandra is a writer who finds out her mother has just died and must deal with preparations for the funeral. She must write the eulogy but finds she has lost the ability to speak. The play takes place in a span of twenty-four hours and is set in present-day Toronto. Performance history ''Mouthpiece'' premiered in 2015 at The Theatre Centre in Toronto starring Sadava and Nostbakken and directed by Nostbakken. In 2016, the production was staged by Nightwood Theatre as part of a double bill. In 2017, Jodie Foster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morro And Jasp
Morro and Jasp are a Canadian clown duo created by Heather Marie Annis, Byron Laviolette and Amy Lee. Based in Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ..., Canada, they produce live theatre productions, web videos, cook books and video games under the banner of U.N.I.T. Productions. Awards ;2012:Dora Mavor Moore Award for "Outstanding Performance" in the Independent theatre category ;2014:Canadian Comedy Award for "Best Variety Act" ;2016:Gourmand Cookbook Award for "Most Innovative Cookbook" () References * http://www.stage-door.com/Theatre/2015/Entries/2015/7/1_Morro_and_Jasp_Do_Puberty.html * http://www.stage-door.com/Theatre/2015/Entries/2015/5/15_Morro_and_Jasp__9-5.html * https://nowtoronto.com/stage/fringe-review-morro-and-jasp-do-puberty/ * http://www.tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falen Johnson
Falen Johnson is a Mohawk and Tuscarora playwright and broadcaster from Canada. Personal life Born in 1982, Johnson is from Six Nations of the Grand River and graduated from the George Brown Theatre School in 2005. She is a member of the bear clan. Johnson spent most of her formative years in Brantford, Ontario; she currently lives in Toronto. Work and education She is the previous Coordinator of the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance, a member-driven organization of professional Indigenous performing artists and arts organizations. IPAA serves as a collective voice for its members and for Indigenous performing arts in Canada. It provides leadership, support, representation, advocacy, and practical assistance for the national development of Indigenous performing arts. Playwright Johnson's plays include ''Salt Baby, Two Indians,'' and ''Ipperwash.'' Her plays focus on contemporary Indigenous identity, navigating spaces as an Indigenous women, and colonial contexts. ''Salt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Coyote
Ivan E. Coyote (born August 11, 1969) is a Canadian spoken word performer, writer, and LGBT advocate. Coyote has won many accolades for their collections of short stories, novels, and films. They also visit schools to tell stories and give writing workshops. The CBC has called Coyote a "gender-bending author who loves telling stories and performing in front of a live audience." Coyote is non-binary and uses ''singular they'' pronouns. Many of Coyote's stories are about gender, identity, and social justice. Coyote currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Career Coyote started performing spoken word in 1992, and their work deals with contemporary issues of family, class gender, identity and social justice. In 1996, Coyote co-founded "Taste This", a queer performance troupe with Anna Camilleri, Zoe Eakle, and Lyndell Montgomery. "Taste This" incorporates live music, poetry and story-telling into their performance repertoire. The group disbanded in 2000. In 2001, Coyote b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandria Haber
Alexandria Haber is a Canadian playwright and actor. Her plays include ''Life Here After'' (winner of the 2009 write-on-Q playwriting competition), ''I Don’t like Mondays'', ''Four Minutes if You Bleed,'' ''Housekeeping & Homewrecking,'' ''Ordinary Times,'' ''Birthmarks, A Christmas Carol,'' and ''Tom Waits''''.'' She has written radio plays for CBC Radio including ''The Very Little Girl'' (winner of the CBC Radio New Voices Competition) and ''Washing Day'' (winner of the CBC Radio Sound FX contest). Biography Haber was born in Hamilton, Ontario and moved to Montreal, Quebec at age five. She studied Theatre Performance at Concordia University Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t .... Selected works Plays * ''Alice and The World We Live In'' (Second place winner, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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