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New Dramatics: an editorial meeting


Date & time
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Cost

This event is free

Where

J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve W.
Room LB-165

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

Toronto’s Public Recordings stage a rehearsal of its forthcoming journal, New Dramatics.

This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Putting Rehearsals to the Test: It’s not about models, it’s about modeling" on view at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery until October 29.

Doors open at 6 pm, the performance starts at 6:30 pm.

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New Dramatics: an editorial meeting
Long-time collaborators inside and outside of Public Recordings, Evan Webber and Frank Cox-O’Connell had a problem with theatre that turned the company into the editorial committee for its first serial publication, planned to launch in 2017. New Dramatics presents texts, scripts, plays and scores that precede underseen and unseeable performance, playfully calling this writing dramatic literature.

Rehearsing writing
New Dramatics’ format places two unpublished texts together with a commissioned essay that crosses the distance between them. Zine-making, unsurprisingly, shares a procedural resemblance to rehearsing. So New Dramatics gets made live. Where better to wonder what the new dramatics is?

In a singular event, the editorial committee uses the live situation to feel the space between the texts of Evan and Frank’s Little Iliad and Nadia Ross and George Acheson’s 7 Important Things. Writer and performance-maker Jacob Wren publicly creates an essay that crosses the gulf.

Concept and creation: Frank Cox-O’Connell and Evan Webber | Created in collaboration with: Ame Henderson, Sandra Henderson and Jacob Wren | Design: Jeremy McCormick


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