Sunday, June 12 - 8:00 pm

HOW QUICKLY THINGS CHANGE​
XOST (SECRET THEATRE)
PRESENTATION
45 minutes, all ages

A story told through a constant costume quick change. Part cinematic, part performance, it offers a deliberately multifaceted encounter intended to make us reflect on time and the shared experience.

​Our hero embarks on the heroic task of performing multiple moments over a life's story between 17 and 40. With a support team of people and you, characters and situations get brought to life within a brief amount of time without ever exiting. This is hyper-biography narrated through a mega-backstage theatre trick. Unlike most theatre, this performance uses a camera to capture the live-action and later play it back on a big screen, more like a live movie than a play. This tactic is intended to exploit the tension between cinema that captures time and theatre, which is ephemeral and fleeting like life. Think instant nostalgia. One other thing that's different about HOW QUICKLY THINGS CHANGE: nothing is hidden. You see the quick change crew, the lighting fixtures, the snow machine used to create the illusion. It is meant to give you the feeling you are stepping onto a film set. As soon as you are through the door, you are immersed in the experience.

CAST + CREW

CREATED by Dustin Harvey
PERFORMED by Mary Fay Coady, James MacLean, Katie Dorian, Ailsa Galbreath, Gina Thornhill
COSTUMES by April Beattie, Leesa Hamilton, Catherine Campbell
PROJECTIONS by Christian Ludwig Hansen
PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE by Jacinte Armstrong
ORIGINAL MUSIC by Rich Aucoin

ORIGINALLY PERFORMED by Stephanie Yee, James MacLean, Luke Mohan, Mary Kitterling, Kira Daube

COSTUMES were developed as part of an Internship provided with support from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
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PAST WORKSHOP PRESENTATION in partnership with Kinectic Dance Studio

Presented with support from ArtsNS, and Canada Council For The Arts

ABOUT XOST (SECRET THEATRE)

Secret Theatre creates new ways of being together while shedding light on how it is we've grown apart. Established in 2003 as a vehicle for the interdisciplinary projects of actor/writer/tinkerer Dustin Harvey, Secret Theatre has grown to encompass a myriad of people and places come, gone and soon to be. Each production is about creating meaningful, shared experiences that are thoughtful, intimate, and temporary. Selected International: EXPERIMENTICA (Cardiff, Wales), Aarhus Festival (Aarhus, Denmark), Cork Midsummer Festival (Cork, Ireland), Lokal (Reykjavik, Iceland), A! Festival (Akureyri, Iceland), Forest Fringe (Edinburgh, Scotland), SXSW (Austin, USA), SHU (Sheffield, England) Selected National: High-Performance Rodeo (Calgary), OFFTA (Montreal), Festival Images des Temps (Montreal), SummerWorks (Toronto), Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Whitehorse), Impact Theatre Festival (Kitchener), Prismatic Festival (Halifax), FoldA (Kingston), Art In The Open (Charlottetown), Nocturne (Halifax), RCA Theatre (St.John's), Imperial (Saint John), Nakai (Whitehorse), Uno (Victoria)