Sunday, October 3, 2010

Theatre Replacement - Box Theatre and BIOBOXES, 2007 - current

Theatre Replacement is a Vancouver-based theatre company that "tends to engage with biographical examinations, relationship to audience and space and explorations of unique and challenging ways of exploring content and staging material."  


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Box Theatre is a collection of six one-person shows for one-person audiences. In each performance, actor and audience share a small box worn on the actor's shoulders. Using a combination of text, tiny props and a little magic, actor and audience engage in the most intimate of performance experiences. Working with Theatre Replacement artistic directors and local artisan Minoru Yamamoto, 6 actor/creators developed their independent stories and boxes. The new works were first performed at the Firehall Arts Centre and then subsequently altered to fit an outdoor festival setting. Box Theatre was commissioned by The Powell Street Festival, and featured the talents of some of Vancouver's most adventurous theatre makers: Adrienne Wong, Spencer Herbert, Kris Nelson, and Camille Gingras. 




BOX THEATRE from Theatre Replacement on Vimeo.

More images of various boxes on Flickr.
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BIOBOXES marks a second round of creation for the enormously successful Box Theatre, a collection of one-person shows for one-person audiences that take place in an intimate theatre: a box worn on the actors' shoulders. BIOBOXES: Artifacting Human Experience are six new bilingual boxes in both English and another language. Six artists of diversity created performances drawn from interviews with six first-generation Canadians of the same culture. Originally co-produced by Theatre Replacement and the High Performance Rodeo, BIOBOXES  is directed by Maiko Bae Yamamoto and James Long and built by Kofu Yamamoto, with video design by Candelario Andrade, dramaturgy by Kris Nelson and featuring the talents of: Anita Rochon, Marco Soriano, Paul Ternes, Cindy Mochizuki, Donna Soares, and Una Memisevic.


BIOBOXES: Artifacting Human Experience from Theatre Replacement on Vimeo.

More images of various boxes on Flickr.

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