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Green Light Arts has announced its 5th anniversary season, 2018/19:
Will You Be My Friend
by Janice Lo
October 25-November 11, 2018
Dr. West, Pluto's leading expert on Earthian Friendiology, presents the findings from his latest experiment on Lonely Entity 1, the patient Janice Joanne Sung Hae Lee. Janice volunteered to be a part of the program because she was lonely and out of options. Mike is a charming and handsome white guy who is always looking for a way to “give back”, and so volunteers to be a part of the program and is paired with Janice despite Janice’s friend, Leila’s protestations.
The play is largely inspired by Janice’s personal experiences living in Waterloo Region. This is a satire exploring how a dominant culture can program people to erase their sense of self, their ancestors, and their identity.
At Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto
A Very Leila Christmas
by Izad Etemadi
Green Light Arts presents award-winning artist IZAD ETEMADI as the loveable Leila to share the adventures of her first Christmas in Canada.
Leila has recently immigrated to Canada from Tehran, Iran and has her first job: as a customer service rep in a call centre during the holiday season. This inspires her to learn what this “Christmas-thing Canadians seem to love so much” is all about. To impress a co-worker she promises to throw the ultimate Christmas party – things get out of hand - and hilarity ensues.
There will be dancing, singing, tree decorating, and sugar cookies... No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you celebrate Leila will capture your heart and show you how we are all much more similar to each other than we are different. A Very Leila Christmas will get you in the Holiday spirit, make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and absolutely leave you in stitches.
December 14-16, 2018
At Theatre Passe Muraiile, Toronto
December 19-23, 2018
At The Registry Theatre
122 Frederick St., Kitchener
This is the Point
by Ahuri Theatre
March 28-31, 2019
Developed while in Residency at The Theatre Centre in Toronto by the award-winning International company Ahuri Theatre, This is the Point is a joyous and unflinching portrait of four individuals whose lives have been shaped, in part, by cerebral palsy.
Dan and Christina are parents searching for the best way their disabled son Bruno can share his voice. Tony is a non-verbal adult who won’t shut up. Liz, his long-time romantic partner, is grappling with the judgement that society makes about their love and sexuality.
This is the Point addresses misconceptions related to disability by sharing the ordinary and extraordinary stories of these two real-life couples. With a verbatim theatre quality and physical comedy delivery, a series of staged conversations and theatrical re-enactments—from getting Bruno ready for school in the morning, to Tony breaking up with his computer because he doesn’t like the simulated voice—This is the Point debates questions of representation, the nature of companionship, and how people of different abilities can connect with each other on equal terms.
At Theatre for the Arts
(Modern Languages Building)
200 University Ave. W., Kitchener
Guarded Girls
by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
The psychological destruction brought on by solitary confinement is at the heart of this wrenching and powerful new play.
When 19-year-old Sid is transferred to a new prison, she finds friendship with Britt — but also forms a complicated relationship with the guard who seems to be watching their every move. Soon, it’s the guard who’s being watched, and this playful, theatrical, mysterious work heads toward its shocking conclusion.
Guarded Girls was originally commissioned by Green Light Arts to humanize women navigating both sides of Canada’s Corrections system. Both Tarragon Theatre and Green Light Arts developed the play.
March 26, 2019 – May 5, 2019
At Tarragon Theatre,Toronto,.
MAY 8-19, 2019
At The Registry Theatre
122 Frederick St., Kitchener
The Seat Next to the King
by Steven Elliott Jackson
June 12-16, 2019
In 1964, a white man walks into a public restroom in a Washington, DC park looking for sex. The next man who enters is a black man. The Seat Next to the King is a fictional exploration of two very real men who sat next to some of the most powerful men in America. Bayard Rustin, a friend to Martin Luther King Jr. and the organizer of the March on Washington, and Walter Jenkins, top aide and friend to President Lyndon Johnson.
The Seat Next to the King was first produced in the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival to high critical acclaim and subsequently remounted at the Theatre Centre in Sept 2017.
At HH180 Studio Theatre
(Hagey Hall Building)
200 University Ave. W.
Waterloo
Anywhere But Here
June 2019
Anywhere But Here is a new play-in-development inspired by and loosely adapted from Anton Chekhov’s play, The Three Sisters.
Green Light Arts, in collaboration with local tech company InkSmith, will transform this famous play about a family anticipating the end of the Russian aristocracy prior to the working-class revolt in 1917 into a contemporary meditation on how technology is replacing class shift.
Anywhere But Here will tackle The Technological Singularity; the idea that an artificial intelligence will someday surpass humanity and change the face of our world forever. This ambitious project will cast a robot in a lead role and eventually put AI on stage with live actors.
This is the first phase of development.
For more information, visit www.greenlight-arts.com
Photo: Janice Lo. ©2018 Hannah Yoon.
2018-10-09
Kitchener: Green Light Arts announces its 2018/19 season