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.
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 Centre. This 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.