“Massively impressive” – Georgia Straight Vancouver
“This is a fast and funny, scary and captivating show” – Edmonton Journal
“It’s action-packed. And it’s exciting. And by the time we realize that every motion is part of a puzzle and get Stewart’s final, indelible image, we also find that we’ve learned something about excitement, and about real action, and about the tragedy that often underlies it.” – CBC Winnipeg (5 stars)
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Fade up. There’s just been a shooting on Vancouver’s Skytrain. A twelve-year-old boy riding home stands witness to the event. He shows us how it all went down, from six different perspectives.
Ghost River Theatre plays host to Edmonton’s Sterling Award winning Surreal SoReal Theatre to bring you a thrilling play about our desensitization as urban dwellers to every day tragedy. The show features a masterful and energetic solo performance by Jon Lachlan Stewart, paired with stunning design by two of Edmonton’s top designers, Dave Clarke (sound) and Cory Sincennes (lighting), with integrative projection provided by Paul Bezaire.
Big Shot has now toured to nine cities, and has just finished a highly successful run at the Roxy Theatre in Edmonton.
Ghost River Theatre co-Artistic Director David van Belle says: “We’ve been keeping an eye on the exciting work that the young artists of Surreal SoReal have been doing up in Edmonton. When Eric Rose and I saw Big Shot at the Roxy Theatre in Edmonton in January we knew it was the right show to bring to our Calgary audience. Big Shot’s strong theatricality and visual narrative made it an excellent fit with our programming. You're gonna LOVE THIS SHOW.”
Written and performed by JON LACHLAN STEWART
Directed by GEORGINA BEATY
Assistant Directed by LUC TELLIER
Sound design by DAVE CLARKE
Projections and set design by PAUL BEZAIRE
Lighting and set design by CORy SINCENNES
Stage Managed by LESTER LEE
Coming December 11-22, 2012
The Last Voyage
of Donald Crowhurst
created in partnership with Vancouver's Rumble Productions
Ghost River Theatre teams up with Vancouver’s Rumble Productions to bring you a dazzling and unusual new work. In 1969 British entrepreneur and sailor Donald Crowhurst appeared poised to win the prestigious Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop round the world sailing competition. As he was poised to win on the final leg, however, organizers suddenly lost all contact with him. His boat was found adrift in the mid-Atlantic two weeks later in sound condition, but with no sign of Crowhurst. Then they read his unsettling logs and an entirely new story emerged...
A multimedia meditation on ambition and the artistry of deception.
December 13-22, 2012. Previews December 10-12.
The Joyce Doolittle Theatre, Calgary.
GHOST RIVER and the MAGNETIC NORTH THEATRE FESTIVAL
GHOST RIVER THEATRE produces the INDUSTRY SERIES at the MAGNETIC NORTH THEATRE FESTIVAL
Ghost River Theatre is very pleased to be hosting this year’s Magnetic North Festival Industry Series. Magnetic North is a fantastically important theatre festival that showcases the best work being made in Canada. Calgary's lucky to be playing host to the Festival's 10th anniversary. We’ve been working closely with the Festival to provide a slate of opportunities to further our art, to open up a space where great people and great ideas can meet each other and to give our colleagues in the cultural industries a chance to meet our city.
Throughout the four days of the industry series we’re looking forward to engaging in adventurous discussion about the art we make and its consequences. We hope that it’ll be a dialogue that engages as many aspects of our cultural ecology as we can muster. We also want to sparking some conversation about the future of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival itself, an appropriate activity on the Festival’s tenth birthday.
For more information on our Industry Series programming, click here.
Director’s Masterclass with James Yarker
As part of its Industry Series, Magnetic North Theatre Festivalis offering an exciting 5-day Director’s Masterclass with UK Director James Yarker of Stan’s Café from June 7th to 11th in Calgary, Alberta.
The workshop will focus on the challenges of devising theatre. Contending that each new show requires a custom-made creative approach, this workshop will encourage and facilitate imaginative, flexible and resourceful thinking from its participants.
The workshop will combine themed mornings, in which key topics are addressed through presentation, discussion and practical exercises, with afternoons spent working together devising a new show, joining together the themes of each morning into a coherent whole.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own experiences, interests and aspirations to the workshop, which will have a strong collaborative, peer-learning ethos. The afternoon show will be devised under the direction of James Yarker as if the workshop participants were members of Stan’s Cafe and conclude in a quasi-public performance on the evening of Sunday, June 10th.
James co-founded Stan’s Cafe in 1991 and since then he has guided the company through approximately fifty productions and led them to be in demand around the world. He gained an MPhil exploring notions of presence and absence on the stage, is regularly invited to lecture, give talks and, appearances on panel discussions. This season, Stan’s Cafe is presenting work at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s World Shakespeare Festival, a co-production with The REP, as well as installing pieces in two parks in Birmingham and a 12 minute long opera.
