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Once upon a time in Guantánamo Bay, three men were found dead in their prison cells. How did they die? Two clowns take a skewed look into the legal black hole that is the Guantánamo Bay prison camp but find themselves faced with a series of obstacles that make it impossible to find out what happened. Death Clowns in Guantánamo Bay is a play about torture, death and the impossible necessity of communicating suffering across distances and cultures. Using mannequin doubles, readymade sculptures, morbid clowning, a singing SWAT-team chorus and gallows humour, the play asks audiences to look at life in the camp in a darkly lucid and dreamlike manner.
The play was collaboratively devised by graduate students at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. The group was organized into a cell structure around Matt Jones ,Artistic Director (Blacklist Committee for Unsafe Theatre) and Director Ashley Williamson. In addition to the acting and production cells, a dramaturgy cell wrote the script, a readymades cell designed and built torture machines and a hacker cell designed an app that will allow the audience to interact with the set and the torture machines before the show begins. A clown minstrel cell plays original clown music before and during the play.
The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
in association with The Blacklist Committee for Unsafe Theatre
presents
Death Clowns in Guantánamo Bay
March 21-24
Studio Theatre
4 Glen Morris Street
Directed by Ashley Williamson
Lighting Design by Alain Richer, Set Design by Jenn Cole,
Costume Design by Martine Plourde
Tickets $10.00
Sunday March 24th: Pay What You Can
Post Show Talk Backs will be held Friday March 22nd and Saturday March 23rd
416-978-7986
http://dramacentre.utoronto.ca
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2013-03-07
Toronto: The U. of T. Centre for Drama presents “Death Clowns at Guantánamo Bay” March 21-24