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Praxis Theatre presents Section 98: an open-source, interactive, original theatrical creation.
Section 98 dramatizes historical and current events while incorporating modern technology to explore individual and civil rights in Canada. This stage of the creation process will be developed in the context of The Progressive Arts Club, The FLQ, and the present day. The production invites the audience to participate in this experiment through their cellphone, PDA, on their computer before and after the performance, in person, or to simply observe and not interact at all!
The suspension of rights has been a contentious issue throughout Canadian history. Section 98 uses theatre and technology to enable everyone to debate and discuss these issues in 2010. A single presentation of this work-in-progress presentation of this work will occur on will take place at Harbourfront’s Studio Theatre on March 13th 2010 at 8pm.
As an “open source” theatrical project we aim to keep our artistic process open, available and interesting through the use of this website. This production is a collective collaborative creation with all members of the creative team contributing to the process. That being said, we all have specific roles:
Director: Michael Wheeler
Assistant Director: Laura Nordin
Online/Script Coordinator: Aislinn Rose
Dramaturg: Alex Fallis
Sound and Lighting Design: Verne Good
Stage Management: Brittney Filek-Gibson
Performers: Margaret Evans, Jody Hewston, Melissa Hood, Greta Papageorgiu and Ben Sanders.
Click the image below to learn more about Section 98 and Open Source Theatre.
*Photography by Meredith Hanafi
Hello Gentle Reader,
Welcome to the new and improved Praxis Theatre Blog and Website.
As you can see we’ve integrated the whole thingamabob into one site here at praxistheatre.com. If you haven’t (re)bookmarked us yet, please take the time to do so.
What can you expect on this newfangled webpage?
- A brand new series that will focus on interviewing Artistic Directors from Canada and around the world by Praxis Theatre Co-Artistic Director Simon Rice. The first of this series will be launched Wednesday June 17th.
- Praxis Theatre Co-Artistic Director Michael Wheeler will continue his dialogue with artists involved in the creative process behind The Africa Trilogy, currently being created by Volcano Theatre, premiering at Luminato in June 2010.
- More artists participating in Praxis Theatre’s Variations on Theatre.
- Even more Celebrity Theatre posts by OCTP* Greta Papageorgiu.
- Increased long-form content by arts journalists like the piece Lindsay Schwietz just wrote on Eat The Street.
- Lots of other stuff we haven’t even thought of or can’t tell you about yet.
Please enjoy and give us your feedback. Special thanks to the many-talented Graham F Scott for his patience and skill bringing about this exciting new stage of online Praxisness.
* Original Canadian Theatre Paparazzi
The new address of the Praxis Theatre Blog is:
praxistheatre.com
Our integrated website with a much more functional blog on the homepage will be up and running June 16th.
Please take the time to update your blog rolls and bookmarks.
See you on the flipside!
Praxis Theatre will present two new original works in the summer of 2009!
1) Tim Buck 2 @ The Toronto Fringe Festival
Playwright and international security adviser
Andrew Zadel, author of the award-winning
Steel, returns to Praxis Theatre with his tale of UN forensic pathologists struggling to arrive at definitive answers in Kosovo.
We had to do a little bit of maintenance on this blog over the weekend. So if you noticed anything wonky in this space during the past 24 hours, that’s why.
Should be back to normal now. Thanks!
A quick housekeeping note: Over the course of this past weekend, Praxis Theatre made a transition to a more robust email server. As a result of this process, any email sent to our praxistheatre.com email addresses during that time (approximately 5pm EST on Friday, September 7 until 5pm EST on Sunday, September 9) would have been lost to the ether.
In other words, if you sent us any email this weekend . . . we didn’t receive it. Sorry for any inconvenience. Please resend if applicable.
Thanks!
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