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Plays2Perform@Home
As the pandemic locked us down and we at EFT were wondering how to translate the essence of live theatre into a digital offering with our Micro Digitals Project, Boca del Lupo Artistic Director Sherry Yoon and Artistic Producer Jay Dodge were asking themselves: “How can we keep the ember burning for those who love performance as much as we do?”
After deciding that going digital didn’t quite satisfy and concluding that "theatre is something to be experienced together, in the flesh,” they were led to create Plays2Perform@Home.
Now, following on the success of last year’s Western Canada Box Set of “home delivery theatre,” Boca Del Lupo decided to work with six prominent theatre companies across Canada to commission 16 talented playwrights to create four new Plays2Perform@Home box sets representing the Prairies, Ontario, Quebec and Eastern Canada.
Alongside our friends at Theatre New Brunswick, we have commissioned four Atlantic Canadian playwrights to create the Eastern Box Set with four new short plays for you to try your hand at.
Featuring celebrated East Coast playwrights Marc-André Charron, Mary-Colin Chisholm, Jena Elizabeth McLean and Santiago Guzmán, these short plays are to be performed around the dinner table, picnic blanket, or campfire with or without an audience. The Eastern Box Set contains four different plays with up to four characters, with an individual copy for each character so everyone can play their part.
Working with Valerie Thai, the award-winning head designer and art director of Adbusters for five years running, each collection of #Plays2Perform@Home are packaged up in a boutique box set and delivered to your home.
Whether as a gift for loved ones, something fun and meaningful to do with friends and family in your bubble, or for a peek inside the minds of 20 amazing writers making work during these remarkable times, our hope is that Plays2Perform@Home will help those of us with a passion for live performance keep the spark alive.
The Box Sets are being sold online at $30 for each Box Set or all 5 Box Sets for $125 (plus taxes and shipping).
Get your own box set here:
www.bocadellupo.com/plays2perform
After deciding that going digital didn’t quite satisfy and concluding that "theatre is something to be experienced together, in the flesh,” they were led to create Plays2Perform@Home.
Now, following on the success of last year’s Western Canada Box Set of “home delivery theatre,” Boca Del Lupo decided to work with six prominent theatre companies across Canada to commission 16 talented playwrights to create four new Plays2Perform@Home box sets representing the Prairies, Ontario, Quebec and Eastern Canada.
Alongside our friends at Theatre New Brunswick, we have commissioned four Atlantic Canadian playwrights to create the Eastern Box Set with four new short plays for you to try your hand at.
Featuring celebrated East Coast playwrights Marc-André Charron, Mary-Colin Chisholm, Jena Elizabeth McLean and Santiago Guzmán, these short plays are to be performed around the dinner table, picnic blanket, or campfire with or without an audience. The Eastern Box Set contains four different plays with up to four characters, with an individual copy for each character so everyone can play their part.
Working with Valerie Thai, the award-winning head designer and art director of Adbusters for five years running, each collection of #Plays2Perform@Home are packaged up in a boutique box set and delivered to your home.
Whether as a gift for loved ones, something fun and meaningful to do with friends and family in your bubble, or for a peek inside the minds of 20 amazing writers making work during these remarkable times, our hope is that Plays2Perform@Home will help those of us with a passion for live performance keep the spark alive.
The Box Sets are being sold online at $30 for each Box Set or all 5 Box Sets for $125 (plus taxes and shipping).
Get your own box set here:
www.bocadellupo.com/plays2perform
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The Playwrights
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MARC-ANDRÉ CHARRON, New Brunswick
Originally from Montreal, Marc-André was lucky enough to be moved by theatre he didn’t understand at a young age. He gathered that art was a way of filling the gaps in the worlds both insideand out. He later chose theatre because these questions could be mulled over as a community, with laughter and joy. A lover of words, he trained as a physical performer at the Montreal Mime School, the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris and the London Internal School of Performing Arts (LISPA). He co-founded Satellite Theatre in 2009, where he is still artistic director. It’s done well enough that he’s still doing it today. He now lives in Moncton, with his beautiful girlfriend, their beautiful daughter and a beautiful cat. He is one of those silly/serious people.
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MARY-COLIN CHISHOLM, Nova Scotia
"March 2020: my play A Belly Full (with M. Kash) closed a week after opening. Three scheduled productions, including one new work, were sent to limbo and my projected ‘best year in a long time’ disappeared. My personal crisis was quickly put into perspective by the stories of those directly affected by Covid. And I was one of many artists saved by the federal CERB. So, probably like you, I baked, walked, dreamed vividly, hunkered down, planted seeds, and discovered the ways of zoom. Through all this, I learned to re-see and value; kindness, connection, nature, reinvention, and breathing through uncertainty. I am not grateful for Covid, or thankful for its lessons. It is a random virus, and it hurt too many, especially our most vulnerable, to ever be thanked. But as we inch towards health, I will remember to hug my blessings and to love fiercely our wild, green fragile world."
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SANTIAGO GUZMÁN, Newfoundland
Santiago Guzmán (he/him) is a writer, performer, director and producer for theatre and film originally from Metepec, Mexico, now based in St. John’s, NL. He is the Artistic Director of TODOS Productions, the Artistic Associate for Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre and General Manager for Neighbourhood Dance Works in St. John’s, NL. He is a proud member of The Quilted Collective.
His plays have been supported, developed and/or produced by theatre companies and festivals across the country, like TODOS Productions (NL), Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company (NL), Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland (NL), Rising Tide Theatre (NL), Neighbourhood Dance Works (NL), Eastern Front Theatre (NS), Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (NS), Page1 Theatre (NS), Paprika Festival (ON), the National Theatre School of Canada’s Art Apart Program (QC), and now Boca Del Lupo (BC). |
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JENA McLEAN, New Brunswick
Jena McLean (she/they) is a queer playwright with roots in New Brunswick and Alberta. She has recently graduated from the playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada. She also has a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Drama Studies from Mount Allison University. She writes to make sense of the world, and recent plays include Bonus Points if You Have Air Conditioning (dir. Andrew Kushnir), Until Tenth Grade (dir. Dean Fleming), and An Ocean of Evergreens (digital reading with Theatre New Brunswick, dir. Yvette Nolan).
Jena’s work aims to explore life’s grey areas, personalize the political and empower people to feel seen in theatre. She is a mess but is learning to enjoy making sense of the mess. |