Steady yourself—this show packs a theatrical and emotional punch
Date/Time: Jan 29 2017, 2:00 pm to 3:20 pm
Vancouver, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | Event calendarCost: $25.00
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Drawing on Boccaccio’s The Decameron for a cast of teenagers, playwright Jordan Tannahill has painted an evocative, foreboding setting: a million-square-foot abandoned greenhouse where neighbourhood kids like to hang out. In this place of both refuge and reckoning, something strange and dangerous unfolds as 10 teens flee a plague they have brought upon themselves. Concord Floral is an ambitious project with far-reaching impact. It’s cast with youth from across the Lower Mainland, and will tour to three municipalities. This is an experiment in creation, collaboration and participation, as well as thrilling theatre in its own right.
Created by Torontonians Jordan Tannahill, Erin Brubacher and Cara Spooner, this is a show to give voice to youth; it’s an act of empowerment in itself. Our teenage years are an adventure, full of thrills, terror and heart; here it all comes to life through a powerful scenario. Brubacher directs with staging that highlights the self-possessed gaze of the performers, who demand to be seen on their own terms, in a space they have claimed for themselves—as characters in a story and as actors on a stage. What emerges is a triumph on many levels.
Presented by the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Shadbolt Centre For The Arts, Surrey Civic Theatres & Touchstone Theatre.
Brubacher/Spooner/Tannahill (Canada)
Brubacher, Spooner and Tannahill began work together on Concord Floral in 2012. All multidisciplinary artists, Tannahill wrote the script over three iterations, while Brubacher and Spooner directed the process and the casts of young performers who have brought the piece into being in cities across Canada. Works by these artists have been presented in theatres, galleries and festivals across Canada and Europe.
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