{"title":"b side","authors":"Meredith Thompson, Molly Johnson","doi":"10.3138/ctr.197.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.197.006","url":null,"abstract":"In 2018, Molly Johnson and Meredith Thompson made a thirty-minute movement work for a Toronto laneway as part of the SummerWorks Lab series. Dressed in primary shades of pink, orange, and red, with buckets of lemons, directions etched in sidewalk chalk, a hand-drawn map to guide, and a live sound score emanating from an unseen source, Meredith and Molly invited small groups of audience members and curious neighbours on a meditative journey of witnessing and wandering from one end of a city laneway to the other. This is their attempt to translate the experience of the work into the pages of a magazine.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141414477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Burcu Emeç, Michael Martini, Nien Tzu Weng, Roxa Hy
{"title":"ça a l’air synthétique bonjour hi","authors":"Burcu Emeç, Michael Martini, Nien Tzu Weng, Roxa Hy","doi":"10.3138/ctr.197.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.197.007","url":null,"abstract":"Coming from different artistic and cultural backgrounds in theatre, dance, and media arts, Burcu Emeç, Michael Martini, Nien Tzu Weng, and Roxa Hy zoom in on labour, constructed intimacy, and consent within participation in their transdisciplinary performance Ça a l’air synéthique bonjour hi. Considering the notion of participation in its broadest sense—such as in a community, an economy, and politics—what factors can encourage, discourage, or limit it? In order to explore these factors, the four artists turn to the model of a participatory performance. Realizing that many experiences of participatory art contain troubling, awkward, and often non-consensual elements, they interrogate how this form of performance can offer a parallel to larger questions about participation in an economic and political system.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141403897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lost Together","authors":"Shira Leuchter","doi":"10.3138/ctr.197.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.197.011","url":null,"abstract":"Lost Together is a thirty-minute performance for one audience participant at a time. It is performed by Shira Leuchter and Michaela Washburn, in collaboration with the audience. Shira and Michaela perform this piece for six- or eight-hour stretches, meeting a new audience member every half hour. Lost Together has been performed in sites as varied as a public atrium, a black-box theatre, a storefront, and online. The performance is a space for communal mourning. It is an assertion that if we want to live in a world that prioritizes care, we need to practice caregiving and the ways in which we are bound to each other.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141406511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Politics of an Epic: Why Not Theatre’s Mahabharata at the Shaw Festival","authors":"Sheetala Bhat","doi":"10.3138/ctr.197.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.197.025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141397991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ministry of Mundane Mysteries","authors":"Mitchell Cushman","doi":"10.3138/ctr.197.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.197.018","url":null,"abstract":"The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries is a telephone-based improvised immersive experience produced by Outside the March that ran for three years during the COVID-19 pandemic. It featured over 1,100 private performances between a single performer and a household (ranging from one person to a whole house party!), connected solely over the phone. This mostly audio-based project produced little photo documentation. Instead, find in this folio the design artifacts from the project’s many iterations, from our Theatre for Young Audiences version to the French-language version to our partnership with SOUND OFF Festival; this includes logos, pre- and post-“investigation” design, and more.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141396098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inside The Maydee Box","authors":"Rebecca Cuddy, Murdoch Schon","doi":"10.3138/ctr.197.022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.197.022","url":null,"abstract":"The Maydee Box is an augmented reality installation for one viewer at a time. Individual audience members enter a space to find a cardboard box labelled “Métis Stuff.” As objects are pulled out of the box, audience members will use a tablet to view audio and visual animations that tell the stories of those objects. This work explores the intersection of live theatre, digital art, Cuddy’s Métis heritage, and her beadwork and visual arts practice. Please be aware that The Maydee Box delves into sensitive material such as Indigenous identity, loss/grief, and Canada’s history.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141407587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep: An Impromptu Text Thread","authors":"Tanya Marquardt, Jenn Stephenson","doi":"10.3138/ctr.197.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.197.010","url":null,"abstract":"During the run of Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep at FOLDA Innovation Residency 2021, artist Tanya Marquardt found themselves in an extended side chat with participatory scholar Jenn Stephenson as they grappled with the question of who exactly they were both talking to.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141390851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Casting Calls/Calls for Change","authors":"Mariló Núñez, Jamie Robinson, Marlis Schweitzer, Yasmine Amirkhani, Liam Lockhart-Rush, Zoe Marin","doi":"10.3138/ctr.193.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.193.001","url":null,"abstract":"#1 Character Descriptions: We are committed to authentically casting equity-seeking characters, including BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, d/Deaf, and/or disabled characters. The character descriptions ... represent our understanding of each character’s identity. We ask that artists only submit for characters within their own lived experience. We welcome submissions for these roles from INSERT artists and artists from the wider INSERT diaspora who are comfortable playing INSERT. All of the characters (apart from INSERT and INSERT) are INSERT GENDERS in the INSERT COUNTRY.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47169310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Casting Blackface in Canada: Unmasking the History of ‘White and Black’ Minstrel Shows","authors":"C. Thompson","doi":"10.3138/ctr.193.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.193.004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Blackface minstrelsy was the dominant form of mass entertainment for over a century, from the 1840s through the 1940s. In Canada, there has been little scholarly research into the topic but for the work of Stephen Johnson and, in recent years, the works I have published on the subject. One of the reasons blackface has been understudied is the dearth of attention paid to histories of slavery. By exploring the history of casting blackface productions, both ‘white’ minstrelsy (white performers blackening up to imitate the song and dance of African-Americans) and ‘Black’ minstrelsy (Black performers in and out of blackface performing caricatures of themselves in front of majority-white audiences), we gain an understanding of how these shows were produced, and what audiences found appealing about them. Canada has produced its own blackface stars, like Colin ‘Cool’ Burgess (1840–1905) and Calixa Lavallée (1842–1891), both of whom toured the United States and Canada in the late nineteenth century and who not only performed in blackface but also produced songs, some of which are still known today, like “O Canada,” the Canadian national anthem, composed by Lavallée in 1880. Additionally, what the history of casting blackface in Canada shows is a long-standing desire among white audiences for depictions of the American Plantation South that often included the participation of local actors like playwright and writer Charles Wesley Handscomb (1867–1906), who moved to Winnipeg in 1879, who were often cast in touring minstrel productions to sing in blackface.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48745583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writers and Race: Why Playwrights of Colour Should Write Themselves into Their Plays","authors":"Mariló Núñez","doi":"10.3138/ctr.193.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.193.012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Marilo Nuñez analyzes how playwrights write race into their work by building on a conversation with fellow playwright Marie Barlizo, to encourage more racialized playwrights to attend to the specificity of race in their writing process.","PeriodicalId":42646,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44831119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}