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The Saint Plays


Date & time
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 –
Sunday, February 22, 2015
7 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Cost

$10 regular, $5 for students and seniors.

Where

F. C. Smith Building
7141 Sherbrooke W.
Room Cazalet

Wheel chair accessible

No

By Erik Ehn

Directed by Clea Minaker

In a cycle of plays loosely based on the lives of catholic saints, Erik Ehn has placed his protagonists, and their suffering in, a modern context. As he explores, "the means by which the self is overmastered by acts of the imagination, [and] by acts of faith,” puppetry, imagery, voice, and movement, conspire to breathe full life and colour into these stunningly poetic tales. 

When:
February 18, 19, 20 and 21, 2015, at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
February 21, 22, 2015, from 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Where:
Cazalet Theatre, 7141 Sherbrooke St. W. (Loyola Campus)

Tickets:

$ 10 regular, $5 for students and seniors.

Tickets at the door. 



Click here to download the program.

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About the director:

A performer, designer, and director, Clea Minaker collaborates bringing the language of contemporary puppetry to creations in theatre, opera, dance, video, film, and live music. Trained at the International Institute of Puppetry Arts (2002 -2005) in Charleville-Mezieres, France, Clea’s original creations evoke a poetic quality. Situating clandestine manipulation within ever-evolving scenic spaces, she strives to produce a ‘total’ image. Clea was awarded the Siminovitch Protégé Prize for Theatre Design by Canadian puppeteer Ronnie Burkett in 2009.

In 2007-2008 Clea created and performed a shadow puppetry stage show for Feist, The Reminder Tour, touring internationally. She has created ‘carte blanche’ performances with Leslie Feist at the Montreal contemporary puppetry festival, Casteliers, with Candas Bas at IF!  Instanbul Independent Film Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and most recently at with Hajra Waheed at  Art Dubai.

In 2013 she created shadow puppetry for Salomé a Canadian Opera Company production directed by Atom Egoyan, as well as for Tales of Odessa, A So-called Musical, at Montreal’s Segal CentreThis summer she  performed and designed for the Luminato premiere of Kid Koala’s live  puppetry film-performance, Nufonia Must Fall, directed by K.K. Barrett.

Clea’s first full length solo performance, The Book of Thel, based on the poem by William Blake was presented in 2013 at Festival Artdanthé at Theatre Lachapelle in Montreal.

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