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366 Days
by David Gagnon Walker
Haunted by the transgressive actions of their recent past and excommunicated by their friends, Blair tries to heal and move on by reinventing their online creative practice. But what if that isn’t possible?
Half live, half digital, 366 Days plunges us into a hallucinatory virtual world where art and life are indistinguishable. Hurt loved ones have their say, dead cats come back to life, and the paralyzing aftereffects of trauma are brought to weird and surreal digital light.
Fall 2021 Online
Featuring: Mikaela Cochrane | Vanessa Jetté
Evan Medd | Jay Northcott | Mike Tan
Direction: Geoffrey Simon Brown
Animation: Tyler Klein Longmire
Set & lighting design: Lauren Acheson
Sound design: Tori Morrison
Costume design: Whittyn Jason
Website design: Kyle Hinton
Stage management: Meredith Johnson
This project was made possible with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, & Quickdraw Animation Society
Night
by Geoffrey Simon Brown
A physical solo performance about compulsive transformation and the tension between wildness and control.
A choreographic score set to a bombardment of text and atmospheric soundscape performed outdoors at sunset.
Anxiety, claustrophobia, and addiction: I am turning into a wolf.
“Night is fascinating and powerful in ways that elude simple explanation.”
–Liz Nicholls
Spring 2021 in Edmonton (in partnership with Commonground Arts Society)
Summer 2021 in Calgary (in partnership with Springboard Performance at containR)
Featuring: Zoë Glassman
Direction: Yousuf Liepert
Scenography: Whittyn Jason
Music/Sound Design: Liv McRobbie
Choreography/Movement Direction: Clarke Blair
Production Dramaturgy: Evan Medd
Stage Management: Liz Page
Night was developed with the support of Playwrights Workshop Montreal, Verb Theatre, Words In Progress, The Playwrights Guild of Canada, and Playwrights Theatre Centre.
With additional dramaturgy by Jonathan Garfinkel, David Gagnon Walker, Heidi Taylor, and Sydney Campbell.
This project was made possible with the support of Springboard Performance, Commonground Arts Society, and One Yellow Rabbit.
Premium Content
by David Gagnon Walker
Blair makes videos. Blair needs a project. Blair has a webcam. Blair has some friends. Blair’s friends are into some kinky shit.
Premium Content is a play about art, consent, polyamory and the Internet. It’s a play about boundaries: In relationships, in art, and the grey space where they converge. It’s a play about the difference between a funeral and a grilled cheese sandwich. It’s a play about trying really hard to be really cool. In an age where you can access anything online, how do you know what is truly good and what is truly bad?
★★★★ “A production this inventive and reckless deserves to run for months with people returning not once but three and four times”
– Louis B Hobson, Calgary Herald
“Experimental, edgy, thought provoking! Great to see youth artists producing this quality of work!”
–Naheed Nenshi, Mayor of Calgary
Winter 2020 at the High Performance Rodeo
Featuring: Mikaela Cochrane* | Zoë Glassman |Vanessa Jetté
Evan Medd | Jay Northcott | Mike Tan*
Direction: Geoffrey Simon Brown*
Production design: Alison Yanota
Associate designer: Lauren Acheson
Sound design: Tori Morrison
Animation and projection design: Tyler Klein Longmire
Intimacy director: Alexis Lerigny
Movement dramaturgy: Melissa Tuplin
Stage management: Meredith Johnson*
Spring 2018 at the Joyce Doolittle Theatre at the Pumphouse
Featuring: Mikaela Cochrane* | Zoë Glassman |Vanessa Jetté
Evan Medd | Jay Northcott | Joe Perry*
*The participation of these artists is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the provisions of the Dance Opera Theatre Policy.
This project was made possible with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, City of Calgary, Quickdraw Animation Society, One Yellow Rabbit, & The High Performance Rodeo
Little Red
Created by Major Matt Mason Collective & Eric Rose
in collaboration with Ghost River Theatre
Who's to blame for the big bad wolf?
Youth, violence, sexuality, family, and growing up; a visceral retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale set against a modern landscape.
Shadowing, distorting, shattering, and reconstructing the fairy tale form we are asking the questions: Why has this story pervaded across countless cultures and generations? And in an age of rapidly redefined ideas and awareness surrounding sexuality and gender, what does it mean to tell this story today?
“A startling creative vision… stunning visual and auditory experience.”
- Louis B. Hobson, Calgary Herald
Spring 2017 at the West Village Theatre
Starring: Mikaela Cochrane | Zoe Glassman |Charlie Gould
Braden Griffiths | Alexis Lerigny | Evan Medd | Bianca Miranda
Direction: Eric Rose
Scripter: Geoffrey Simon Brown
Assistant director/dramaturgy: Louise Casemore
Music: Patrick Seager
Technical & production management/sound & light design: Thomas Geddes
Stage management: Meredith Johnson
Assistant stage management: Michael Luong
Choreographic intern: Samantha Ketsa
Ghost River intern: Jelena Minshall
Previous workshops were presented and created with the support and artistry of Taryn Craig and Joe Perry
Control
By Geoffrey Simon Brown
Rocky and Raine are teenage girls who drink, cut keys, and break into houses. Ben and Ashley need someone to talk to.
Youth, crime, loneliness, love, and growing up; the fear of taking control of our destinies and the things we do to cover it up.
Spring 2014 at the Motel Theatre
Starring: Charlie Gould, Lindsay Mullan, Zoe Glassman, & Stephen Hair
Direction: Mathieu Bourassa, Evan Medd, & Joe Perry
Light, Costume, & Set: Alison Yanota
Sound: Tom Cainer
Stage Management: Olivia Brooks & Brooklyne Alexander
Production Assistance: Taryn Craig & Geoffrey Brown
This project was made possible through InvestYYC
By Greg MacArthur
girls!girls!girls! was written in response to the events surrounding the brutal death of Reena Virk in Victoria, BC, and the Columbine massacre in Colorado, USA. Written in a detached and playful verse, it has been described by Peter Hinton as “a hip-hop nursery-rhyme”. Candy coated, vicious, playful, and raw, the play is a dissection of brutal violence, the desensitization to experience, and the pressures of growing up in a world of social regulation, expectation, and silence.
Spring 2013 at Birds and Stone
“For those interested in an engaging, but challenging, night of live theatre, MMMTC's passionate gang of artists produces some of the best original work in town.”
–Meredith Bailey (Avenue Magazine)
Starring: Alexis Lerigny, Cassidy Waring, Charlie Gould, Erica Anderson, & Evan Medd
Direction: Geoffrey Simon Brown, Joe Perry, & Mathieu Bourassa
Lights, Costume, and Set: Alison Yanota
Sound: Tom Cainer
Stage Management: Kelsey Ledbury & Brooklyne Alexander
Production Assistance: Taryn Craig
This Theatre Engaging Communities (TEC) project was made possible through the financial support of the National Theatre School of Canada (www.ent-nts.ca)
Air
By Geoffrey Simon Brown
Mike and Kyle are unexpectedly pulled into a web of criminal activities after stealing drugs from Kyle’s brother leads them to accidentally kidnap a major drug dealer. Four garbage bags of pot, a bottle of ether, ‘would you rather’, and spiders: Air is a play about morality and fear.
Summer 2015 at Edmonton's Found Festival, Birds and Stone, & Winnipeg Fringe
"Intimate, intense, and authentic."
–Jenna Marynowski (After The House Lights - Edmonton)
"An experience you won't soon forget."
–Louis B Hobson (Calgary Sun)
"Air leaves the audience gasping."
–Wendy King (Winnipeg Free Press)
Starring: Evan Medd, Joe Perry, Tom Cainer, & Geoffrey Simon Brown
Direction: Mathieu Bourassa
Stage Management: Brooklyne Alexander
This Theatre Engaging Communities (TEC) project was made possible through the financial support of the National Theatre School of Canada (www.ent-nts.ca)
Spring 2012 at Birds and Stone
"Air gives this reviewer hope about the future of Calgary's young theatre artists."
–Wil Knoll (Avenue Magazine)
Starring: Evan Medd, Joe Perry, Tom Cainer, & Mathieu Bourassa
Direction: Geoffrey Simon Brown, Alexis Lerigny, & Cassidy Waring
Design: Alison Yanota
Stage Management: Taryn Craig
This Theatre Engaging Communities (TEC) project was made possible through the financial support of the National Theatre School of Canada (www.ent-nts.ca)
This Is Our Youth
By Kenneth Lonergan
Warren steals $15,000 from his father and shows up at Dennis' Upper West Side Apartment. Antique toys, a magnitude of drugs, and the youth to use them how they will. This is the end of our youth.
Summer 2011
Presented at the Calgary and Regina Fringe Festival
“…if Pineapple Express and Rebel Without A Cause got put into a blender.... Seriously – if you can get down to see it, do it! And if you can’t get down to see it, cancel your plans and then see it.”
–Fanatic Review (Regina Fringe)
Starring: Geoffrey Simon Brown, Randy Burke, & Cassidy Waring
Direction: Evan Medd, Mathieu Bourassa, Tom Cainer, & Alex Brown
Technical Design and Direction: Tom Cainer
Design: MMM Collective
Destroy
By Geoffrey Simon Brown
Simon and Tom head out on the open road in search of home, freedom, and what it means to be alive. They realize soon enough that nirvana isn’t on the map. Destroy is a play about adventure and a play about greed.
Spring 2011 at the Motel Theatre
"Destroy packs so much good into a small space... full of promise for the future of all involved."
–Craig Palmer (Avenue Magazine)
Starring: Joe Perry, Tyler Millar, Tom Cainer, & Tyler Rambie
Direction: Geoffrey Simon Brown & Evan Medd
Design: Brooklyn Ritchie
Assistant Design: Alison Yanota
Stage Management: Erin Bauer
Voice and Text Coach: Paul Welch
Dialect Coach: Bobbi Goddard
Featuring original music by Tyler Rambie
Original production at Sage’s 2010 Ignite! festival
Starring: Bruce Novakowski, Mathieu Bourassa, Tom Cainer, & Tyler Rambie
Direction: Geoffrey Simon Brown
Design: Brooklyn Ritchie
Stage Management: Kelley Cheetham
Festival Director: Ellen Close
Ignite Production Manager: Paisley Sim
