Young theatre companies are bringing experimental and experiential work to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts for the final Live at the ’Bolt event of the season.
Back Away, Slowly is on at the Shadbolt on Friday and Saturday, June 19 and 20, starting at 8 p.m.
Theatre Replacement’s artistic directors, James Long and Maiko Bae Yamamoto, are working with alumni from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts to produce an evening of site-oriented performances.
Long and Yamamoto are both graduates of Simon Fraser University’s theatre program, and all the companies they’re working with for the evening were created by alumni from the past five years.
“Over the last five years, we have seen an influx of young companies born out of SFU, all interested in creating work that attempts to push formal, spatial and conceptual approaches to performance making,” they said in a press release.
“We invite some of these emerging artists to envision a work that uses the spaces in, out and around the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts as their canvas for creating an inventive and engaging evening.”
The companies include Resounding Scream Theatre, The Jamie and Sarah Experience Project, Hong Kong Exile, Zugzwang and O, o, o, o.
All are creating work around the theme of curiosity.
“They say that the natural response to being curious is to back away, slowly,” the release says. “Join the next generation of theatre makers as they ponder and trouble this mischievous theme.”
Tickets are $16. See tickets.shadboltcentre.com or call 604-205-3000. For more information, see www.theatrereplacement.org.
