Theatrical Design Exhibition (DART 3F61)
When: March 26 – April 2, 2014, 9 am – 5 pm
Location: Design Studio Room ST102, Schmon Tower, Brock University.
Admission: Free
A public showing of Theatre Design projects by senior design students. Scale maquettes of set designs, costume designs and storyboards for a variety of plays, musicals, songs and proposed films.
Sponsored by the Department of Dramatic Arts, part of the Industrial Fabric 2014 Festival.
The work of Dramatic Arts graduate Nicolina Lanni (2005) was featured at the conclusion of CBC’s The Current on March 11, 2014. She recently began the documentary film “Lost & Found” with colleague John Choi about the continuing impact on the lives forever changed by the Japanese Tsunami that occurred on this day three years ago.
From the film’s website:
Imagine losing everything. Your home, your business, all your worldly possessions. Gone forever… or are they?
Right now an epic endeavor is underway involving 2 continents, 3 countries and the largest body of water on earth. Join us as we go on a journey to discover the stories of those whose lives were stolen by the sea.
Nicolina’s project is made possible by HotDocs and the Doc Ignite crowd-funding platform. “We feel so lucky to have been given the opportunity through Hot Docs and Doc Ignite to share our film with you and to work towards reaching our goal of raising $30,000 to help make this film and tell the amazing stories behind the artifacts that have washed ashore,” she exclaims on the film’s website.
Learn more about Nicolina’s film at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival website and the project website www.lostandfoundthefilm.ca.
alumni, Japanese Tsunami 2011, Nicolina Lanni
Categories: Alumni, News
April 11, & 12, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
Matinee: Saturday, April 12th – 2pm
It’s 1938 and in the fractured world left behind The Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War seizes the hopes and fears of the world as people unite and divide over the threat of Fascism. In Canada it is declared a crime to volunteer to fight in Spain, yet 1,546 Canadians make the illegal journey to fight for Democracy in the hopes of creating a better world. Fragmentos follows the journeys of 18 Canadians and Spaniards as they pursue their beliefs in the possibilities of a new life.
Written by the students of DART 4F56, this ensemble production explores the creation of actor-created theatre incorporating circus, song, movement, dance and visual media.
Location: Room ST107 (Studio Theatre), Schmon Tower, Brock Campus
Admission: Donations Accepted
This presentation is the culmination of 6-months of play development and rehearsal by our graduating Performance, and Production & Design Concentrations students
Admission is first-come, first-seated.
For more information: [email protected] or x5255
Let us know you’re coming by joining our Facebook event.
Canada, DART 4F56, Fragmentos, Spanish Civil War, The Great Depression
Categories: Events, Plays
In an interdepartmental collaboration, MUSIC student Leanne Vida, under the direction of DART professor Virginia Reh, explores the character of Rosina in the Figaro operas of Rossini, Mozart, Milhaud and Corigliano.
Location: Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, Brock Campus
Admission: Donations accepted
When: March 31, 2014, 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Contact: Marie Balsom, [email protected]
collaboration, Corigliano, Figaro, Leanne Vida, Milhaud, Mozart, Music, opera, Rosina, Rossini, The Rosina Project, Virginia Reh
Categories: Events
A public showing of Theatre Design projects by senior design students.
When: March 26, 2014 – 9:00am – April 2, 2014 – 5:00pm
Location: Room ST102, Schmon Tower, Brock University.
Admission: Free
DART 3F61, Theatrical Design Exhibition
Categories: Events
Break-a-leg! to the student directors, cast and crew, faculty and staff who are opening the One Acts Festival TODAY!
Every year as the final assignment for the Third Year Directing class each student choses a one act play to produce for the One Act Festival. This year’s One Acts Festival is approaching and the dates are as follow:
Friday March 21st: Group A starting at 2pm Group B at 7pm
Saturday March 22nd: Group B starting at 2pm & Group A at 7pm.
Group A’s shows are:
The Feast
Overtones
Hide & Seek
Fourteen
Group B’s shows are:
Tales of the Grotesque
Don Juan in Chicago
Playwriting 101
Rat Snake
When: March 21 & 22, 2014 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Location: ST 107 “Studio Theatre” and ST 103 “Black”
Admission: Donations Accepted
Contact: [email protected] or 905-988-5550 x 5255
Come out and support the 3rd year directors and all the students involved this year! Seating is limited, so please show up early to get your seats! See the FB events page here.
One Acts, One Acts Festival
Categories: Events, Plays
On 13 February, 2014, the director Peter Hinton visited the Department of Dramatic Arts for a two-hour talk about his work as a director and adaptor. He responded to questions from students in DART 3P96: Studies in Praxis – Theatre Criticism, as well as from other students in the department.
Hinton spoke about a number of his recent projects, including his adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull, which premiered Montreal’s Segal Centre in February 2014; his 2013 Shaw Festival production of Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan; and his upcoming staging of the musical Cabaret, also at Shaw. Discussion focused on Hinton’s research processes and how these inform his directorial concepts, in particular on his approach to existing and canonical works. Hinton also spoke about his relationship to theatre critics: “I’m not after five stars; I’m after a respectful dialogue,” Hinton said of the critics who regularly review his work. “I don’t want to be in search of [their] praise or victim of [their] ignorance.” When asked for his advice for a new generation of Canadian theatre artists and professionals, Hinton reminded the group that the professional relationships they form during their student years may be the most important ones in their careers, and urged them to consider their professional creative lives as already underway: “I always thought that theatre was an elite club to get into, but theatre already belongs to you.”
Hinton has worked with major theatre companies across Canada including Theatre Passe Muraille and Canadian Stage; Playwrights Theatre Centre in Vancouver; Playwrights Workshop Montréal; and the Stratford and Shaw Festivals. He was the director of the English theatre division of the National Arts Centre from 2005-2011, and is originally from Toronto.
DART 3P96, Peter Hinton, visiting artists
Categories: News, Visiting Artists
In photo: Jill Dolan
Listening to theatre companies, they’ve never needed theatre critics more. Listening to them after a bad review, they’ve also never resented them more. This strange dance of mutual need has been going on since the first time someone recited dialogue on stage, and someone in the next day’s paper wrote “it doth sucked, verily.” But what of that relationship today? Do critics matter? Can anyone with a blog call themselves a theatre critic? Are critics there to serve theatre companies or readers? (John Law)
See the complete article by John Law in the Niagara Falls Review about his upcoming participation in the two-day colloquium ‘The Changing Face of Theatre Criticism in the Digital Age‘ organized by Professor Karen Fricker of the Department of Dramatic Arts on the occasion of the special visit by Jill Dolan, Annan Professor in English, Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Director, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, at Princeton University, noted theatre blogger (thefeministspectator.com) and a Walker Cultural Leader for 2013-14. Special guests J. Kelly Nestruck of The Globe and Mail and Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star will join local guests and luminaries including cultural leaders like Jackie Maxwell, artistic director of the Shaw Festival, and Steve Solski, director of the St. Catharines Centre for the Performing Arts.
The two day program begins this Friday morning with the public lecture, “Moving the Body Politic: How Feminism and Theatre Inspire Social Re-imaginings” by Professor Jill Dolan. The lecture is presented in association with the Department of Dramatic Arts and the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies.
For a complete list of participants and more information please see the Brock News Article, the Department of Dramatic Arts and the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts web pages.
Come join us! There is no charge to attend and engage in what will surely be a remarkable exchange of ideas and opinions in this “blossoming” cultural scene of Niagara (Professor Karen Fricker).
All events will be live-streamed at BrockVideoCentre’s DART channel [Click on the “live video” button on that page.]
(Source: The Brock News, Monday, February 10, 2014)
An upcoming series of community discussions at Brock University later this month will debate the question: is everyone a critic?
Media professionals, theatre experts, scholars and students will assemble in Sankey Chamber at Brock Feb. 21 and Feb. 22 to take part in the colloquium, The Changing Face of Theatre Criticism in the Digital Age, hosted by the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.
“The rise of blogging and Twitter, combined with the decline of print journalism, is raising important questions about what counts as legitimate, professional criticism,” says Karen Fricker, event co-ordinator and a professor of dramatic arts. “Our discussions will focus on the current critical scene in Niagara, as well as imagining possible futures for the arts in our community.”
Panel members include two of Toronto’s most influential theatre critics: J. Kelly Nestruck of The Globe and Mail and Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star. Others include local figures like Jackie Maxwell, artistic director of the Shaw Festival, and Steve Solski, director of the St. Catharines Centre for the Performing Arts.
The colloquium will also feature international critics: Jill Dolan, Princeton University professor and noted theatre blogger (thefeministspectator.com); Maddy Costa, a London, England blogger and journalist; and Andy Horwitz, founder of New York arts blog culturebot.net
Dolan is visiting Brock as part of the Walker Cultural Leaders series. While here, she will deliver a public lecture, “Moving the Body Politic: How Feminism and Theatre Inspire Social Re-imaginings.” Her lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of Dramatic Arts and Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock, takes place Friday, Feb. 21, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, also in Sankey Chamber.
All of these events are free and open to the public.
Funding for these events is provided by the Walker Cultural Leaders Series, the Brock Humanities Research Institute and the SSHRC Institutional Grant scheme, and the St. Catharines Performing Arts Centre.
All events will be live-streamed. [Click on “live video”]
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All events take place in Sankey Chamber at Brock University
* 2 – 2:30 p.m.: Welcome
Presentation by Brock dramatic arts students from the third-year class, Studies in Praxis – Theatre Criticism
* 2:30 – 4 p.m.: Panel discussion “Critics and the arts in Niagara”
* 4:15 – 5:45 p.m.: Panel discussion “Embedded criticism: a new way forward, or criticism-as-PR?”
* 10 – 10:30 a.m.: Welcome
Presentation by Brock dramatic arts students from the third-year class, Studies in Praxis – Theatre Criticism
* 10:30 a.m. – 12 noon: Panel discussion “Bloggers, critics, and cultural legitimation”
* 12:15 – 1 p.m.: Colloquium wrap-up
Andy Horwitz, art criticism, Candice Turner-Smith, colloquium, DARTcritics, David Fancy, Holger Syme, J. Kelly Nestruck, Jackie Maxwell, Jacob Gallagher-Ross, Jill Dolan, John Law, Karen Fricker, Lawrence Switzky, Maddy Costa, Monica Dufault, Odette Yazbeck, Richard Ouzounian, Rosemary Drage Hale, Sara Palmieri, Stephen Remus, Steve Solski, The Brock News, theatre criticism, visiting artists, Walker Cultural Leader Series
Categories: Announcements, Events, In the Media, News
2 minutes, 2 actors! Gimme 2! is the first presentation of our first year students in short performances written and directed by their senior DART mentors. An Homage to Jerzy Growtowski!
Open Rehearsal at 6 pm, show at 8 pm. Admission is first-come, first-seated.
For more information: [email protected] or 905-688-5550 x5255
Contact [email protected] to reserve a seat if you know you can only attend one or the other presentations.
Date & Time: March 5, 2014: 8 pm – 10 pm
Location: ST 107 (Studio Theatre), Schmon Tower, Brock University
Cost: $0.00
Contact: [email protected] or 905-688-5550 x5255
