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TEC – Greenhouse Effected

Greenhouse Effected is an experimental theatre piece to be created based on Exxon Mobil’s greenhouse gas study, which was internally disseminated in 1981 and released to the public in 2015. A mix of contemporary classical music, choral speaking, absurd and poetic text, and a fusion of technical designs will submerge participants in the conscience of a climate researcher who, despite their responsibility for the greater good, chooses to keep quiet about their discoveries regarding climate change.

The performance will explore the relationship between corporate greed and the push for individual responsibility for climate change rather than a collective fight. Greenhouse Effected will be a chance to collectively mourn the health of our planet and dream of ways we can come together to fight our climate impact as a society.

Ryan Wilcox is a queer, multidisciplinary artist with a love of collective creation. Their goal in theatre is to create a catalytic environment for new Canadian work that focuses on the voices that have yet to be heard and the questions that have yet to be answered. Through their training in production design and technical arts (NTS, 2020), they hope to enhance the creative companies they work with by using collaborative approaches that see beyond the traditional structures of theatre. Before attending NTS, Ryan completed Dalhousie University’s Technical Scenography program.

While at the National Theatre School, Ryan trained under the guidance of inspirational artists such as David-Alexandre Chabot, Brian Kenny, Maria Popoff, Craig Putt, Andrea Lundy, Rick Rinder and Debashis Sinha, among many others. On productions, Ryan has worked as a stage manager, lighting designer, and sound designer while collaborating with such acclaimed directors as Eda Holmes, Danielle Irvine and Krista Jackson.

Ryan worked on sound design for Little Thing Big Thing (Neptune Theatre), Penny’s Home Projects (Alinea Theatre), and The PEACE Project (Transitus Theatre). Ryan was also an apprentice stage manager for the Festival Antigonish and a stage manager for The Colour of Courage (Anthony Sherwood Productions).

TEC- She/They

She/They was produced at Nextfest in June and in the Edmonton Fringe in August. It is a two-hander, and Madi performed in it alongside a local artist from Edmonton. The play was part of Nextfest’s MainStage lineup, which guarantees three performances at that Festival, and will receive 7-8 performances at the Fringe.

Synopsis

Famed feminist author Agnes Arnold has been cancelled and doxed. Gender studies major Pearl Arnold has been dumped and shattered. Pearl has no time to process their breakup because Agnes, their grandmother, is moving in. Full of hope that her grand-“daughter” will validate her outdated and bigoted opinions, Agnes is shocked when Pearl pushes back. Soon, they launch into a debate about feminism and gender, but as the political becomes personal, both Agnes and Pearl confront the truth that they are far from ready to admit.

TEC – Principles in Puppet Making and Manipulation

In this project, a group of 10 students (ages eight to 16 years old) will be invited to participate in several parts of a puppetry design and workshopping process. Students will learn puppet-building techniques and be introduced to part of a theatre creation process conducted by a collective of theatre professionals. Theatre students will gain first-hand experience of the process of creating a work of puppetry, including theatre-making, writing and performance workshopping. They will also get hands-on experience in the design and creation of large puppets. Their contributions to the creative process will help make the show a hit with young audiences.

Murdoch Schon is a theatre maker, director, and puppeteer who graduated from the NTS Directing program in 2020. Winnipeg-born, they have been involved in the Montreal English theatre scene for almost a decade. Murdoch is fascinated by provocation, vulnerability and the role of risk and failure in art-making. Murdoch believes that theatre rises to its true power through the practices of ritual liminality, community and imagination. Murdoch is enamoured with scale, the breadth and sweep of history. They insist on the wondrous nature of theatre as a transformative space where rulers can fail, heroes can rise, and monsters seem more familiar than angels.

Mentors at NTS: Jackie Maxwell, Tanja Jacobs, Lezlie Wade, Michael Wheeler, Sarah Garton Stanley, Clea Minaker, Dean Fleming, Seana McKenna, Jean Asselin, Eda Holmes, and Rose Plotek.

Their directing credits include it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now by Lucy Kirkwood, The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter, Celestial Serendipity by Russell Wiitala, The Woods Witch by Murdoch Schon, and Little One by Hannah Moscovitch. Murdoch also has a BFA specialization in theatre and development from Concordia University.

TEC – YOUTH COMMUNITY WORK

YOUTH COMMUNITY WORK

We want to create specialized cultural mediation workshops for students age 5 to 8 at École Ludger-Duvernay, an under-resourced school in the Saint-Henri area. We want to bring two young apprentices, recently trained through the Mentor’art program, into our creation process. The teens in this program are grappling with issues surrounding dropping out of school.

The process

We are currently working to create a youth play called Éva et Porée. We will provide cultural mediation workshops to accompany our work in under-resourced primary schools, where access to art is limited due to a lack of resources. The stage of the work for which we’re applying for the TEC bursary is split into two parts; community engagement will be at the heart of our artistic process.

FIRST PART: Mediation

In collaboration with École Ludger-Duvernay, we want to design, develop and lead cultural mediation workshops with classes and teachers. We will give six workshops in two primary-school classrooms (first and second grade). Our encounters with these children will greatly influence the next steps of our creation and our rapport with audiences. We are very pleased about this upcoming collaboration with École Ludger-Duvernay, because we are very affected by the striking inequalities within the public school system. So it was crucial for us to provide our workshops in an under-resourced school where the children have less access to art than in more privileged schools.

Since we also come from a remote area that doesn’t value culture and from an underprivileged area, we know from experience that art needs to seek out its audience and that awareness-raising is all the more effective when it reaches people at a young age. This is what happened to us, Esther Duplessis (Interprétation, 2020) and myself, Alice Tixidre (Écriture dramatique, 2021), and we made art not only our careers, but our reason to get up in the morning.

SECOND PART: Participation of two apprentices in creating the play

In December 2023, we will undertake a one-week research and creation residency at the performance hall at Patro Villeray and two weeks at the Maison de la culture de Pointe-aux-Trembles. We want to bring two teenage interns with us. With training through the Mentor’art organization under their belts, these interns will accompany the members of the creation team. Their technical skills and abilities will be valued and may be put to use in service by our technical, creation and stage directors. We are planning to pay them the same hourly rate as we receive.

These residencies will make it possible for us to create our production. We will design the play with a touring context in mind. The interns will learn the various constraints of this specific context. For example, the various design elements will need to be able to adapt to the range of spaces in which we’ll be performing.

TEC – LA MESURE DE NOS ENVIES

LA MESURE DE NOS ENVIES

Description of the project La mesure de nos envies: writing commission for a creation workshop in the Villeray area.

Théâtre Harpagon is engaged in both creative theatre and the community milieu, among others through their “Théâtre à ciel ouvert” (open-air theatre) project in collaboration with Ville de Laval. For several years, mini-productions have been offered to people who want to have a first theatre experience. For the mini-production of fall 2023, Théâtre Harpagon is inviting an author to create a tailor-made play with and for the participants. The author will be Pierre Berlioux.

Pierre Berlioux (Toronto)

After starting with street theatre, Pierre Berlioux studied the dramatic arts at Conservatoire du Grand Avignon as well as the Théâtre rural d’animation culturelle and at Académie Internationale des Arts du Spectacle. He then turned toward theatre machinery and worked as a set builder and set designer. In 2013, he founded a stage theatre company, Comédie du Fol Espoir, for which he was a coauthor and actor. In parallel, he danced with the company Les Roses du Pavé.

He joined the NTS Écriture dramatique program in 2020, where he wrote Sept stations avant terminus (coaching by Diane Pavlovic and reading directed by Frédéric Dubois), Archéopunk (coaching by Simon Boudreault and directed by Philippe Racine) and L’amour vient du futur (coaching by Olivier Kemeid and directed by Véronique Côté). Throughout his career, he has also written scripts, texts for young audiences and song lyrics.

Leading a too-short existence on a fragile planet lost in an icy universe, he rejoices in knowing that life has no meaning, because he can give it one—which oscillates between politics, poetry and love.

TEC – ÉQUINOXE

ÉQUINOXE

This project is a continuation of our artistic and political work with the troupe Joussour. It consists of integrating, mixing, and confronting a vision and a Palestinian theatre practice in our dramaturgy. This is first articulated through joint research work, and next through the production of (digital) content, to conclude with the dissemination of this content on a Canadian stage as an epilogue to the creation work.

Hugo Fréjabise Biography (Quebec)

Hugo entered the National Theatre School of Canada thanks to Diane Pavlovic, who had the double audacity to abolish barriers and believe in him. There, Hugo met the game-changing Tamara Nguyen, precious teammate and necessary author.

Hugo is infinitely grateful to his acting colleagues (the 2016–2020 cohort).

Hugo created the Dire, Encore collective in 2018, collaborating with the redoubtable Renaud Dionne, Marine Plasse and Samuel Boucher. He then created the shows Darwin avait raison and En descendant de Babel. Hugo invented the performances #blablabla and On ne fait pas de littérature avec de bons sentiments along with the dazzling Pierre-Alexis Saint-Georges. The remarkable Édith Patenaude directed his play Tu es Nora. With the intrepid Nadine Jaafar and Alice Tixidre, he founded the company Joussour, with which, in 2018, they led the production Ce n’est pas un hasard qui fait de nous des voyageurs avec colis encombrants, a theatre creation project carried out in Beirut with youth from the Ouzai area. Cioran was right: “No need to elaborate works—merely say something that can be murmured in the ear of a drunkard or a dying man.”