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Theatre

Short Works Theatre Festival/ SIPA


Date & time
Thursday, November 6, 2014 –
Sunday, November 9, 2014
6 p.m. – 1 p.m.
Cost

$5 regular, $2 for students and seniors

Contact

Department of Theatre
514-848-24242, ext 4555

Where

F. C. Smith Building
7141 Sherbrooke W.

Wheel chair accessible

No

Concordia Theatre's annual Short Works Theatre Festival is a four day extravaganza of student-created work. Each play is between 20 and 50 minutes long, so audiences can grab a quick theatre snack, see them all over Thursday and Friday evenings, or attend a weekend marathon. 

Check out the facebook group for details and updates. 

Cockroaches Written and Directed by Dimitri Kyres

As Noah blankly stares at the four dead walls that make up his current home, he realizes that his fate is nowhere close to being changed. Obsessed with leaving a legacy behind, he drags his long time friend Eddie, followed by Eddie's current love, Rachel, from place to place, hoping to find what he is looking for. Time is now closing in on Noah as he becomes more and more desperate to find the key to his immortality. 

Hide Fox Written and Directed by Julie Foster

A dark comedy with elements of absurdity, Hide Fox is a twisted play that takes madness to a new level. Famous method actor Thomas Hall has just been arrested and he begins to lose himself and his grip on reality. All in the confines of a jail cell, a movie star has become a murderer, an agent has turned into a guiding light, and a wife becomes a haunting presence. Through the blood it is hard to play hide-and-go-seek…

Four Storey Suite A collective creation by Veronica Baron, Jonathan Mac Donald, Cooper McGinnis and Alexandra Petrachuk

This piece tells the story of four young adults living in the same apartment complex. Bear and Kale have been in a steady relationship for what seems like a decade. Zed misinterprets just about everything and Quinn, the girl who bakes pies spreads herself all over. Four Storey Suite is a piece for you. 

In [bodied] A collective creation by Simon Banderob, Amelia Castillo, Britta Jansen, Marcel Kieslich, Alesandra Lasek, Hannah Liesenfeld, Annie Maheux, Silvia Poxleitner, Mathis Raabe, Michelle Rambharose, Agnès Rivet, Caithlin Ross, Nicolas Ruzza.

Perfect femininity and masculinity exist all around us in images, songs and the rest of the media panopticon. But these ideals cannot be surmounted, nor ignored and we find ourselves living in the shadow of them. Our work is the revolt, the mockery, the celebration and the attempted escape from gender. Perhaps we are destined to fail, but we are also bound to try. As we do so, the spectator may look on at their own risk, lest they find themselves confounded, seduced, or even implicated by our struggle.

Oyster Witten by Alicia Segura Co-Directed by Peter Shaw and Alicia Segura

By some great miracle, we have made it well into the millennium, but MISS BEST HAIR 1999 still fruitlessly awaits global annihilation from the cold comfort of her bathroom. Critiquing damaging social scripts of wanton romantic love as a dark and mysterious - but ultimately worthwhile pursuit - OYSTER is a peek into MISS BEST HAIR 1999’s last evenings in on Earth as she conjures up her absent sweetheart, ART PÜPLA. Armed with roses, chocolates, ballads, and high-femme hairdos, OYSTER journeys into the futile utopian dreams of a woman stucksearching for a more fitting role to play.

OffSIPA

Post-Mortem Written, Directed and performed by Manouchka Elinor

Post-Mortem is a dramatic, one woman with a hint of comedy. Taking place in Mississauga Ontario in the year 2008, Post-mortem touches on the serious issues of the deeply troubled yet hysterical miss Laura Alcy; a 31 year old real estate agent , in a 11 months denial of her fiancé’s death, who he committed suicide, 3 days before their wedding day. Convinced that she is perfectly sane and in control, Laura attends weekly therapy sessions with a family friend.  As the sessions progress Laura is forced to confront her demons.

Laniakea Curated by Tyson Houseman

Laniakea is a Hawaiian word that translates as “immeasurable heaven.” It is also the name of the supercluster of galaxies that our Milky Way galaxy resides in. It spans over 500 million light-years and contains over 100 000 galaxies like our own. Every star you can see in the night sky calls Laniakea home. It is everything that life on this planet has ever experienced and everything life has yet to become. This large-scale multimedia installation piece examines the past, present, and future of human life from a wide perspective. The piece is divided into five parts that each serves to present an aspect of human existence through the context of one question: What is the fate of humankind? 

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