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It’s taking partnerships and collaborations to carry three new works to Calgary levels.
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City Tales has teamed up with Drama on a Dime for the world premiere of Caroline Russell-King’s new historic drama, Excessive and Splendid Braveries. It took the College’s Faculty of Artistic and Performing Arts and Chromatic Theatre to place the thrills into Lauren Yee’s slasher comedy Hookman, and eventually, Hearth Exit Theatre and Vancouver’s Pacific Theatre are collaborating to carry Maki Yi’s highly effective solo present Suitcase Tales to Calgary.
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The central determine in Russell-King’s Excessive and Splendid Braveries is Emily Murphy, the Canadian ladies’s rights activist who, together with Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, grew to become referred to as The Well-known 5, The Valiant 5 and initially The Alberta 5. They advocated for the rights of ladies and kids.
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Elizabeth Stepkowski Tarhan, who’s directing this world premiere on the Arts Commons’ Motel Theatre from Oct. 19-30, says Russell-King’s play “charts Emily Murphy’s journey, together with her combat to have ladies acknowledged as individuals underneath the legislation, but it surely additionally tells the story of her ardour to eradicate the opium commerce in Canada. The warfare on medication that Emily initiated greater than 100 years in the past continues to be very a lot an issue at this time, making the play notably related.
“We get the timeline of Emily’s life and work alongside the impact it had on her private life and that’s what provides the surprises in Caroline’s play and there are numerous of them. That is undoubtedly a historical past play however it’s also a Caroline Russell-King play so meaning there may be an excessive amount of humour in it.”
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Stepkowski Tarhan says Excessive and Splendid Braveries is very theatrical.
“We’ve got 5 actors taking part in 24 characters throughout 17 places via 42 scenes in 90 minutes and all of it takes place within the Motel, which is probably Calgary’s smallest theatre. What Caroline has created just isn’t a dialog in a room however an epic story. Because the director and the actors within the play, it’s our accountability to make magic occur within the Motel Theatre as a result of Caroline has definitely given us the instruments to just do that.”
Tickets for Excessive and Splendid Braveries, which opens City Tales tenth season, can be found at urbanstoriestheatre.org.
THERE’S A NEW BOOGEYMAN IN TOWN
Transfer over Jason, Michael and Freddy as a result of there’s a brand new slasher demon on the rampage and he’s headed for the Reeve Theatre on the College of Calgary from Oct. 21- 29.
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Hookman is a 2015 slasher comedy by Chinese language-American playwright Lauren Yee which, in response to director Jenna Rodgers, relies on an city legend.
“The phantom killer has a pirate-like hook on his hand, and he at all times chooses to stalk a lady on her personal. She’ll be driving and out of the blue the automobile behind her begins flashing its headlights. When she finally stops, the motive force tells her there may be somebody in her backseat and after that, the Hookman retains following her,” says Rodgers.
“I selected Lauren’s play as a result of I needed one thing up to date, enjoyable and related that supplied alternatives for younger actors to play characters of their age bracket.”
The play’s heroine Lexi is performed by Sepidar Yeganeh Farid with Jordan Wilson as Hookman and a forged of supporting characters that features Sunny Bao, Stephanie Bessala, Sofia Hurarte Aguilar and Samantha Vu.
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A STIRRING TALE OF SURVIVAL AND SELF-DISCOVERY
With solely her tiny suitcase in tow, Maki Yi left her house in South Korea for Canada. She didn’t actually care the place she was going, simply that she was leaving Korea. She selected Canada as a result of she’d heard it was secure and since her brother had given her a map of Toronto.
Thus begins Maki’s trek throughout Canada on a journey fraught with dangers but additionally the enjoyment of discovering, not solely what she might do and obtain, however who she actually was. Though Canada proved to be the land of freedom and alternative she dreamed of, it additionally offered its share of racism, poverty and disheartening immigration issues.
Yi was working at Vancouver’s Pacific Theatre as an apprentice when, in 2013, she approached its inventive director Ron Reed with a proposal to write down 10-minute performs that have been autobiographical and that she might carry out within the foyer earlier than the corporate’s common reveals.
Yi’s performs have been on the spot hits with audiences and the corporate itself and he or she finally wove eight of those reveals into what grew to become Suitcase Tales for Pacific Theatre’s mainstage program.
Val Lieske, inventive director of Calgary’s Hearth Exit Theatre, has invited Yi to share her tales with Calgary audiences Oct. 19-23 within the Arts Commons’ Engineered Air Theatre. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. with matinees on Oct. 22 and 23 at 2 p.m. Tickets can be found at fireexit.ca.
