The new Electric Company Theatre Website is Under Construction
Visit us again later this fall for our new-look website.
In the meantime, feel free to move about the old one! If you would like to be notified by email once the new site is up, please drop us a line at info@electriccompanytheatre.com, with "new site" in the subject line. In brief, our 2008/09 season includes:
BRILLIANT! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla
Electric Company's Victoria debut
Produced by the Belfry Theatre . Directed by Kim Collier
Jessie Richardson Awards for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Production
"Theatrical Magic" - The Globe & Mail
The Electric Company's unique brand of visually stunning storytelling has astounded audiences around the world. Brilliant! is an exuberant ride through the life of Nikola Tesla, the inventor whose visionary work and ideas (wireless communication, robotics) continue to shape and light our world today. Filled with immense charm, acrobatics and a tap dance battle between Edison and Tesla, Brilliant! is a dazzling look at the fleeting nature of fame.
Nov 11 - Dec 14 2008 at the Belfry Theatre, Victoria BC
Tickets and information: 250.385.6815 . belfry.bc.ca
STUDIES IN MOTION: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge
by Kevin Kerr
Western Canadian Tour
Presented by the Vancouver Playhouse, Alberta Theatre Projects, and the Yukon Arts Centre
Directed by Kim Collier
"A must-see performance experience" - The Georgia Straight
Inspired by the life and work of 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, whose instantaneous photography and exhaustive studies in animal and human locomotion foretold the invention of the modern-day cinema.
In 1885 Muybridge embarked on a mission of cataloguing animal movement and human gestures, dissecting time and in so doing, revealed a world invisible to the naked eye. However, Muybridge is haunted by the ghosts of his past actions; the man he killed, the child he abandoned, and the woman he thought he knew. The play, a physically and visually explosive spectacle, explores themes of memory, identity, and the quest for meaning at the very beginning of our culture's obsession with images.
Mar 24 - 27 2009 at the Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse - box office TBA
Apr 1 - Apr 18 2009 at the Vancouver Playhouse
Apr 21 - May 9 2009 at Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary
Tickets and information: Vancouver - 604.873.3311 . vancouverplayhouse.com . Calgary - 403.294.7412 . atplive.com
NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre
Inez (Lucia Frangione, on screen), and the Valet (Jonathon Young, foreground)
A Live-Cinematic Interpretation from Director Kim Collier
the French existentialist masterpiece
co-produced by Electric Company and The Virtual Stage
starring Lucia Frangione, Laara Sadiq, Andy Thompson and Jonathon Young
May 1 - May 10 2008 at the Centre for Digital Media at the Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver
Tickets and information: Click Here or call Tickets Tonight at 604.684.2787
NO EXIT Director Kim Collier in foreground, with characters Estelle (Lucia Frangione), Cradeau (Andy Thompson), and Inez (Laara Sadiq)
In May 2008 Electric Company joins forces with The Virtual Stage in a production of Jean-Paul Sartre's modern classic No Exit. Virtual Stage Artistic Director Andy Thompson approached Kim Collier to direct the play and Kim quickly began to envision a concept that will result in the presentation of both a live performance and a film, simultaneously. This project is in some ways a departure for Electric Company, but it represents a natural continuation of our investigation into the intersections of live and mediated performance.
In the Hangar at the Digital Media Centre we are building our own hotel room as the site where Sartre's three characters must endure each other's company for eternity. This sense of entrapment will be intensified as the actors will be literally confined within the four walls of the tiny room. Through modern projection technology will audiences be able to watch with cinematic intimacy, a meticulously staged live film of what goes on inside the box.
But that's not all... Inhabiting the space between audience, hotel room and giant movie screen is the play's minor character, The Valet (Jonathon Young). Just what he gets up to out there beyond the confines of the script must be seen to be believed. By creating a theatrical space around the walls that traditionally define the perimetre of No Exit, we are widening the frame and possibly finding an exit to this famous play about eternal damnation.
Tickets and information: Click Here or call the Tickets Tonight Hotline at 604.684.2787
No Exit is generously supported by Consulat Général de France à Vancouver, the Province of British Columbia, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Hamber Foundation, the Institute for Humanities at Simon Fraser University, the City of Vancouver, the BC Arts Council, Phillips Brewing Company, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Georgia Straight.
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HIVE 2
In collaboration with Vancouver's Progress Lab
Commissioned by Magnetic North Theatre Festival
June 4 - June 14 2008 at the Centre for Digital Media at the Great Northern Way Campus, Vancouver
Eleven companies, nine days, one site. Eleven of Vancouver and Victoria’s hottest independent theatre companies reinvent their 2006 sold-out hit.
Tickets and information: www.magneticnorthfestival.ca
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