peek show #6
BRAGI theatre - bedsprings
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Ruby and Ted are two young Christians that have decided to keep their relationship "pure." When they decide to fake intimacy to stop their secular friends from teasing them, they find their relationship with each other and with sex is far more complicated than they knew. COMPANY PROFILE: Bragi Theatre is a Victoria based company that stages pathfinding theatre that sails beyond the boundaries of any one genre. It staged O, Come All Ye Faithful on the Victoria Fringe, and Rural Ravaillac and Kid Viking for SKAMpede. Its work-in-progress, Last Pick Nick, was staged at the last Peek Show. CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Innuendo and Language |
Hailee friesen and molly mcdowell-powlowski - why not eaT candy? (or a millennial exorcism)
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This project uses autotune, poetry, and movement to explore love in the digital age. Using ghosting and haunting as a central metaphor, we probe what it means to live in a post closure world. ARTIST PROFILE: Hailee Friesen and Molly Mcdowell-Powlowski are emerging theatre artists from UVic. They longtime collaborators, lovers, and enemies. Through the power of modern technology, they have joined forces with Bjorn Kriel (a UofT jazz student) to create 'why not eat candy'. CONTENT WARNING: Loud Noises |
jack hayes - bad faith
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Performed as a four-character vocal masque, Bad Faith follows a speaking panel of 'modern conservatives' including a 'gaymer', a philosophy professor and an inflammatory talk-show host at a large university that becomes the centre of attention when a student-led protest spirals dangerously out of control. ARTIST PROFILE: Jack Hayes is a theatre performer and creator recently graduated from the University of Victoria's Theatre program. Select recent credits include Pericles (GVSF, 2018), Lunar Boys (OUTStages, 2018) and Sunday in Sodom (Spark Festival, 2018). Despite having recently relocated to Toronto, Jack is back in Victoria this summer to perform in Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival's 2019 Season, as well as visiting family. CONTENT WARNING: Profanity, Homophobic Language |
CHASE HIeBERT - Forks
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A meditation on the intersection of object and memory, aging sets of dishes, and the myriad ways in which death by fork can occur. ARTIST PROFILE: Chase is a Victoria based actor, director, writer, and administrator. He studied both theatre and writing at UVic, and has worked administratively with such local companies as Atomic Vaudeville, Intrepid Theatre, and Theatre SKAM. Chase’s work has been performed with Vino Buono and the rEvolver Festival. Some favourite performance credits include Drops in a Broken Fountain (Winnipeg Fringe), Bulb Duet (rEvolver Festival Reading), Our Town (Blue Bridge Theatre), The Madwoman of Chaillot (UVic Phoenix Theatre). CONTENT WARNING: Simulated Fork Violence |
Impulse Theatre - pulling your heart out through your throat
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A person walks in. They stand. They look at the shadows in the mirror. An interdisciplinary exploration through authenticity, self-worth, and the personal brands we foster. How much are we running away from ourselves in our search for validation? directed by Andrew Barrett performed by Ciaran Volke COMPANY PROFILE: Impulse Theatre was founded in the summer of 2010 on a rock in James Bay.. The company has created over fifteen new highly visual and engaging works since inception and have brought work to upintheair's rEvolver Theatre Frestival, the Belfry's Spark Festival, Intrepid's Winterlab, UnoFest, and YOU Show series, Theatre SKAM's SKAMpede, the Victoria and Vancouver Fringe Festivals, and the Firehall Arts Centre's BC Buds Festival. |
Paul, Lisette & George Shortt - shortt Stories
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A piece from a new early-development variety show. This puppet/shadow puppet performance follows the heroic adventures of young Danny McPoodlebutt as he's thrust into an alternate universe filled with pirates, dragons, and laser-teethed bunnies. Does it all seem too much for a 5 year to handle before bed? ARTIST PROFILE: Shortt Stories are a family collective, made up of Paul and Lisette Shortt, and their young son George. Paul is a performer and writer with Atomic Vaudeville, producer of The Showdown, emcee around town, and has appeared in shows with Theatre Inconnu, Theatre SKAM, the Fringe, and more. This is Lisette's theatrical debut, but her art work has been featured in several theatre productions. George is a wildly creative and hilarious 5 year old. |