"Confessions of a Paperboy overflows with a beguiling mix of wit, humour and intelligence. It's a performance so mesmerizing, Esdale held her opening night audience captive for 80 unforgettable minutes..." - Louis B. Hobson, Calgary Sun (Confessions of a Paperboy)
Ghost River Theatre brings its spectacular, award-winning The Highest Step in the World to St. Albert's beautiful Arden Theatre.
“a fantastic multi-media voyage” - Calgary Sun
“a world that’s as visually dazzling as it is emotionally uplifting.” -Calgary Herald
“Exceptionally well acted” - Globe and Mail
“Ghost River crafts another crazy, innovative winner.” -FFWD
In 1960, Captain Joseph Kittinger leaped from a high-altitude weather balloon as part of Project Excelsior, a scientific program designed to test a new parachute system at the edge of space. Kittinger holds the world record for the longest free-fall ever, and is the only person ever to have broken the sound barrier without a vehicle. Kittingerʼs story is the basis for Ghost River Theatreʼs spectacular Betty Mitchell Award-winning The Highest Step in the World, an exhilarating 75-minute solo performance that integrates projection and flying technology in a meditation on the nature of risk.
The Highest Step in the World wowed audiences and critics alike when it premiered in February 2010 as part of Alberta Theatre Projectsʼ 24th Annual Enbridge PlayRites Festival of New Canadian Plays. The play racked up four Betty Mitchell Awards that season and garnered the trophies for Outstanding Choreography or Fight Direction and Outstanding Production of a Play. It was further shortlisted for the 2011 Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama.
ONE takes Outstanding Production at the Bettys and makes a big splash at Toronto's Summerworks!
ONE wins big at the Betty Mitchell Awards!
Ghost River Theatre's dreamy ONE received three Betty Mitchell Awards at the 2011 ceremony, held August 8.
Snezana Pesic and Lester Lee won for Outstanding Lighting Design, Matthew Waddell won for Outstanding Sound Design, and for the second year in a row, Ghost River won the Betty for Outstanding Production of a Play! We're very proud of all of the artists that worked with us in our 2010-2011 season.
“Probably my favourite of all the plays I saw this year...squarely on the side of ingenious” -VUE Magazine (Edmonton)
"...one of the most striking pieces of theatre I have ever seen." --Jeff Kubik, FFWD (Calgary)
Develop your practice with Ghost River Theatre
DEVISED THEATRE INTENSIVE--EDMONTON
led by GHOST RIVER THEATRE Co-Artistic Directors David van Belle and Eric Rose
Dive into your own creativity. Make your own work.
Ghost River Theatre Co-Artistic Directors David van Belle and Eric Rose lead a four-day intensive designed to pilot established and emerging artists through an introduction to devised theatre methodologies. Topics include:
• collaborative creation dynamics
• visual approaches to storytelling
• non-traditional text generation
• the key principles of healthy creation practices
Open to adventurous artists in all media, our Intensive will foster an innovative and energetic environment where participants will develop and use new tools for self-expression through hands-on exercises based on the unique artistic practices Ghost River Theatre is forging in the creation of such shows as Reverie and The Highest Step in the World.
