Cowardly Kiss Theatre is seeking Stage Managers for the 2012 Edmonton Fringe Festival. We, along with our children’s branch, Petite Granada Theatre, have three shows in this year’s Fringe, so we’re looking for at least two Stage Managers. Rehearsals would begin anywhere from May to July, depending on the production. Here’s a quick look at the plays we’re looking to staff:
A System of Pulleys
Written and Directed by Andrea Beça; Starring Kristen Padayas and Janine Hodder; Dramaturgy by Margaret Eleanor McCall
Two women meet. These two women know each other. These two women hoped to never see one another again. Now they’re spending an indeterminable amount of time together. Together. What did you say? Two women meet… These two women—know each other? These two women sure as hell never want to lay eyes on one another again. Now they’re—shit. Stuck? With her? Two wo— WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!
“I know people say this all the time, but this—this is actually the last thing I need today.”
JC & JC
Written by Michelle Kennedy; Directed and Dramaturged by Andrea Beça; Starring Adrianne Salmon
JC & JC is a little ditty about a girl so destroyed by love that she takes herself hostage in a sweltering Miami hotel room waiting to be saved…by John Cusack. Part rom-com, part Waiting for Godot, JC & JC is all about the search for hope when hope has flown for the orange trees and all we need is a gun or a boom box to rescue us.
“If you’re doing the math that means I’ve been here about 5 days. It’s sort of an awkward situation but I think I’ve got it under control. I’m not worried.”
I, Caliban (Petite Granada Theatre)
Written by Tim Crouch; Directed by Andrea Beça; Starring Cody Porter
The events of The Tempest are recounted by Caliban, alone on Prospero’s island, in this beautifully sweet, funny, and complex-in-its-simplicity re-imagining of a Shakespearean classic. I, Caliban is a play about injustice, what really makes a monster, and about missing your mum.
“You’d be ugly too if you had a life like mine.”
Interested Stage Managers should send resumes to Andrea Beça at andrea@cowardlykiss.com (or andrea@petitegranada.com for I, Caliban).
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Auditions (Calgary): Generals – Theatre Calgary
GENERAL AUDITION – THEATRE CALGARY
Audition day one: 03/20/2012
Audition day two: 03/26/2012
Artistic Director or casting person in attendance: Dennis Garnhum
Deadline to submit: 03/07/2012
Contact name: Susan McNair Reid
Contact email: smcnairreid@theatrecalgary.com
Contact phone: 403-294-7440 ext. 1053
www.theatrecalgary.com/contact/auditions_employment/
Additional information: You may apply if you have NOT been seen for a General Audition in the past two years (prior to January 2010).
* If you have been seen at a Theatre Calgary audition in the past two years, you are free and encouraged to send an updated resume and/or headshot for our records (but you will not qualify for a general audition).
Successful audition applicants will be asked to prepare two contrasting monologues, NO LONGER than 4 minutes combined total.
Please send your headshot and resume (hard copies only) by Wednesday, March 7, 2012 to:
THEATRE CALGARY 2012/13 GENERAL AUDITIONS
220 – 9th Ave. S.E.
Calgary, AB
T2G 5C4
Only successful applicants will be contacted (the week of March 12) with an audition time slot.
To aid in our scheduling, please indicate your availabilty for the audition dates (ie. if there is a date you cannot make, please let us know which day you are available if chosen).
Fundraiser: Donations collected during ATP playRites Blitz Weekend
Alberta Theatre Projects (ATP) will be collecting donations for The Gina Wilkinson Award for Emerging Female Theatre Directors on playRites Blitz Weekend – please consider supporting Gina’s wonderful legacy by helping with this great initiative.
For more information, please visit these two websites:
To donate: http://www.arts.on.ca/Page4072.aspx
For more on Gina’s life and the award: http://news.shawfest.com/2011/09/21/annual-gina-wilkinson-prize-established-to-benefit-emerging-female-theatre-directors/
Gina Wilkinson
Classes (Edmonton): Good Women Dance Society Master Classes – Expanse
Good Women Dance Society Master Classes at Expanse!
David Van Belle, March 8, 10-Noon, Studio A, TransAlta Arts Barns
Dean Bareham, March 9, 10-Noon, Studio A, TransAlta Arts Barns
Sylvain Emard, March 10, 10-11:30, Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns
Noam Gagnon, March 10, Noon- 1:30, Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns
Costs:
$20 for general public/festival pass holders
$60 if registered for all four
$10 for festival artists
$30 if festival artists register for all four
email goodwomen@live.ca for more info or to register
SPACES ARE LIMITED!
Facebook Event Link: http://www.facebook.com/events/367960029890044/
Job (Calgary) – Crew Chief – Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show
The Grandstand Show of the Calgary Stampede is accepting applications for the position of Crew Chief. Reporting to the Technical Director, the Crew Chief provides support to The Young Canadians (TYC) Staff, Cast and Stage Management Team.
The successful candidate will be familiar in all aspects of technical theatre. Must be able to read technical, mechanical and theatrical drawings. Proven experience supervising and organizing large unionized crews is a must. As Crew Chief, the applicant must be proactive and vigilant in regards to Health and Safety matters during all aspects of the Grandstand Show.
Applicants should have a minimum of 2 years in stage carpentry and or supervising, preferably involving large-scale outdoor productions. The applicant must be familiar with Microsoft Office and AutoCAD 2011. This position will require the supervision and or operation of certain industrial equipment, ie: forklifts, man lifts etc. The applicant should possess or be willing to obtain such certification as required. This position may require supervising at heights and or confined spaces.
This position has an irregular workweek, throughout the term of the contract. The start date of this position is May 28th thru July 20th, 2012 (eight weeks). No phone calls please. We thank all interested applicants in advance, but will only be contacting those selected for an interview.
To apply please forward your resume in confidence to: Colleen Caron, Production Manager,
Grandstand Show Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Limited
Box 1060 Station M
Calgary, Alberta
T2P 2K8
Email: ccaron@calgarystampede.com
Deadline: April 1, 2012
Job (Calgary): Technical Director – Calgary Stampede
Update: the deadline for submissions has been extended to March 15!
The Grandstand Show of the Calgary Stampede is accepting applications for the position of Technical Director.
Reporting to the Production Manager, the Technical Director provides technical, scheduling and logistical support to The Young Canadians (TYC), Staff, Cast and Stage Management Team.
The successful candidate will be familiar in all aspects of technical theatre. Must be able to read and produce technical, mechanical and theatrical drawings. Proven experience supervising, scheduling and organizing large unionized crews is a must. As Technical Director, the applicant must be proactive and vigilant in regards to Health and Safety matters during all aspects of the Grandstand Show.
Applicants should have a minimum of 4 years as a Technical Director involving large-scale outdoor productions. The applicant must be proficient with Microsoft Office and AutoCAD 2011. This position will require the supervision and or operation of certain industrial equipment, ie: forklifts, man lifts etc. The applicant should possess or be willing to obtain such certification as required. This position may require supervising at heights and or confined spaces.
This position has an irregular workweek, throughout the term of the contract. The start date of this position is April 23rd thru July 20th, 2010 (sixteen weeks).
No phone calls please. We thank all interested applicants in advance, but will only be contacting those selected for an interview.
To apply please forward your resume in confidence to:
Colleen Caron, Production Manager, Grandstand Show
Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Limited
Box 1060 Station M
Calgary, Alberta T2P 2K8
Email: ccaron@calgarystampede.com
Deadline: March 15, 2012
Event (Lethbridge) – New Play Readings
Alberta Playwrights’ Network and New West Theatre
are pleased to host readings by two Lethbridge Playwrights:
MEG BRAEM & NICHOLAS HANSON
When: February 29th 7:30pm
Where: Yates Memorial Theatre, Lethbridge (1002 – 4 Avenue South)
Cost: by donation
THE JOSEPHINE KNOT
Samantha’s grandmother has died. Correction: Samantha’s Baba has died. Sifting through junk, relatives and pickles, Samantha finds something priceless-the ties that bind. Often considered the perfect knot, the Josephine knot joins two ropes together as one.
THE TRANSPLANT
Edison receives an urgent message from his family. For the first time in years, he leaves the confines of his metropolitan condo and returns to the family’s rural home. There, he discovers that in order to save his younger brother, the family wants him to give up an organ–his heart.
News: Edmonton considers Downtown Performing Arts Centre
From the Edmonton Journal (Feb. 23)
A city council committee recommended Wednesday spending $100,000 to help develop a business plan for building a downtown performing arts centre.
The site should include three theatres with 250 to 1,800 seats, rehearsal and teaching space, restaurants and other attractions to lure people downtown, said Dianne Kipnes, co-chair of the Mayor’s Arts Visioning Committee.
Her idea is a campus on the east side of 101st Street near the Epcor Tower housing multiple structures rather than one big building.
Committee co-chair Brian Webb said performance and multicultural organizations need somewhere to put on events because the Jubilee Auditorium is heavily booked with large touring shows.
The Jube underwent a major renovation in 2005, but that eliminated one stage, Webb said.
“We heard consistently from one end of the community to the other the difficulty in finding space, and specifically the difficulty using the Jubilee Auditorium.”
Grant MacEwan University, which is trying to sell its Jasper Place campus so it can consolidate downtown, has been mentioned as a possible partner in the performing arts centre. However, a spokesman said the university isn’t interested because it’s planning its own building at 104th Avenue and 112th Street.
Read the full article (by Gordon Kent) here.
Read editorial by David Staples on proposed centre here.
News: Brian Quirt appointed head of Banff Centre Playwrights’ Colony
Writer, director Brian Quirt appointed director of the Banff Playwrights’ Colony
The Banff Playwrights’ Colony at The Banff Centre, one of the most intensive creative experiences for the development of new Canadian plays, has appointed Brian Quirt as director, effective in the spring of 2013.
Currently the artistic director of Toronto-based dramaturgical company Nightswimming, Quirt’s appointment follows the resignation last fall of dramaturge and translator Maureen Labonté, who has been integral to the Colony since 2003, first as resident dramaturge and most recently as co-director. The 2012 Colony will be overseen by Vicki Stroich of Alberta Theatre Projects, along with resident dramaturge Colleen Murphy, and Vern Thiessen, senior playwright-in-residence.
“We’re delighted to have such an exceptional theatre artist as Brian Quirt to follow Maureen LaBonte’s inspired and dedicated leadership for the past nine years,” says Kelly Robinson, director of Theatre Arts at The Banff Centre.”
Founded in 1974 to build on The Banff Centre’s established programs in theatre, the Banff Playwrights’ Colony is a creative residency that brings both emerging and seasoned playwrights together from across Canada to work with dramaturges and a company of actors to develop new work. The program is designed around individual projects, at varying stages of completion, but is primarily centred on text-based play development.
A dramaturge, director, and playwright, Brian Quirt is the founding artistic director of Nightswimming, a Toronto-based dramaturgical company that commissions and develops new works of theatre, dance, and music, and conducts theatrical research. The company has commissioned and premiered plays including Judith Thompson’s Such Creatures, and Bombay Black by Anosh Irani.
Click here to read the full press release.
Congratulations Brian – from all of us at Theatre Alberta!
Event (Edmonton): Fidelio Panel Discussion – Wrongful Imprisonment – Edmonton Opera
Fidelio Panel Discussion: Wrongful Imprisonment
Join Edmonton Opera for a thought provoking panel discussion surrounding one of Fidelio’s most prominent themes: Wrongful Imprisonment. Our panel of experts from the realms of Political Science and Criminal Law will be led by Edmonton Journal’s Paula Simons in discussing how Beethoven’s opera written in the early 1800s is a story that continues to remain relevant to audiences today. Following our panel discussion Edmonton Opera’s Artistic Administrator Jeff McCune will dive into the world of opera and give you an in depth understanding of Fidelio in Opera 101.
Location
Art Gallery of Alberta, Ledcor Theatre
Wednesday, April 11 6:30- 9 PM
Complementary, but please RSVP to amanda.macrae@edmontonopera.com or 780 392 7832