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Young Prince Collective launches their debut This is The August in upcoming SummerWorks Performance Festival August 4-14.
“Live music, live painting, and YouTube videos combine to engage and provoke in this darkly funny piece about Edie, a YouTuber who has just gone viral. Her girlfriend/professor wants Edie to stop vlogging about her sex life and focus on more important work. But everything changes when Edie meets Sam – a multimedia artist who defies definition.”
This Is The August aims a webcam directly at the rapidly evolving worlds of gender and feminism, the millennial generation divide and the realities of internet celebrity. Guillermo Verdecchia praised it as “Something like a Venn diagram of sexuality, gender, and feminism today. But This is the August is no simple diagram; it’s a smart, funny play, rich with the complexities of contemporary life in the west.”
August features a roster of queer artists, including Heath V Salazar, who noted “It's so exciting, as a queer artist, to find a play about LGBTQ+ characters who have such uncensored and genuine voices.” Lauren Beatty makes her on-stage debut as a queer YouTube star, Edie, embodying the third-wave sex-positivity and intersectionality of the Millennial generation. Beatty herself is a queer YouTuber and film actress.
This Is The August is as contemporary as theatre comes, and is a vital new play sure to stir conversation among people of all genders and generations. Join us at Summerworks as we bring the conversation to life.
Taking place at The Theatre Centre BMO Incubator.
This is The August is directed by Megan Piercey Monafu.
Written by Hillary Rexe. Starring: Lauren Beatty, Heath V. Salazar, and Mary Beth Rubens. Producers: Dana Herlihey, Hillary Rexe, Rashida Shaw, and Curtis te Brinke.
Composition and sound design: Dave Clark. Lighting/Set design by Navid Amini.
Stage Manager: Maricris Rivera.
Thursday August 4th
8:45 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday August 6th
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Sunday August 7th
8:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Tuesday August 9th
9:15 PM - 10:30 PM
Thursday August 11th
6:45 PM - 8:00 PM
Saturday August 13th
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Sunday August 14th
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Website: http://summerworks.ca/2016/artists/this-is-the-august/
Photo: Heath V. Salazar.
2016-07-19
SummerWorks: This is The August