CDTPS 2024 End-of-Year Performances
When and Where
Description
Join us at the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies for our 2024 end-of-year performances running April 2 to 4. Please check the schedule below as locations and times vary.
Schedule
DRM368 Devising Theatre. Brecht. Learning. Play.
Instructor: Antje Budde
Photo by Antje Budde
Date: Tuesday, April 2
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Location: Luella Massey Studio Theatre (4 Glen Morris St.)
Daily Cycle
In our collective group creation “Daily Cycle” in the course “DRM368 Devising Theatre: Brecht. Learning. Play,” we will use devised performance simulations to illuminate hidden power relations that underlie daily U of T student experiences. From the lecture hall, to lunch, to the subway, and back again, we will explore the unconscious realities that go unnoticed in the spaces that we as students occupy every day. The result of three months of experimentation, this is an original compilation that pieces together work produced by students throughout the semester.
Originally playfully utilizing Bertolt Brecht’s learning play “Lindbergh’s Flight” as a starting point of experimentation and exploring his collective creation techniques as methodological inspiration, our presentation makes visible social apparatuses that may not be apparent to all, and asks the question: “If the light doesn’t work, does the invisible marker still write?”
Our goal is to guide our audience through student-designed collective making exercises to identify persistent power dynamics and begin to address the roles they play in our daily encounters. We invite you to join us in the Luella Massey Studio Theatre on April 2nd to help us explore, co-create, and together ask questions.
Performance Facilitators (Roles may be subject to change):
Hillary Adebayo (Simulation Student/Subway Goer/Server)
Elle Baron (Simulation Public Announcer)
Antje Budde (Course Instructor)
Gabriela Chanen (Simulation Student/Hostess)
Macarena Coronado Harmen (Simulation Student/Subway Goer/Server)
Farah Fatola (Simulation Fare Inspector/Server)
Grace Huestis (Simulation Lecturer, CAP Coordinator)
Mahek Jaindani (Simulation Student/Hostess)
Valeria Macgregor-Ordonez (Simulation Fare Inspector/Server)
Anna Novak (Simulation Student/Subway Goer/Server)
Rebecca Robitalle (Simulation Fare Inspector, CAP Coordinator)
Hillary Sunberg (Course Teaching Assistant)
Jialing You (Simulation Student/Subway Goer/Server)
Past Student Contributors:
Unwoo Ho
Kristina Lavrentyeva
Invited Collaborator (collaborative music experiments) Feb.2, 2024:
Lars Crosby, Sound Artist, Berlin
(Hands-on) Guest lecture by our TA on physical theatre Feb.13, 2024:
Hillary Sunberg
Special Thanks To:
Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, U of T
DDL2 --- Digital Dramaturgy Labsquared
KMDI Maker Space, U of T
Making a Scene DRM428/DRA3901 Playwriting Showcase
Instructor: Djanet Sears
Date: Tuesday, April 2
Time: 8:00-9:00pm (followed by a reception)
Location: Playhouse (79 St. George St.)
Emerging playwrights will present short excerpts from their latest exciting works for the stage. The Playwriting Showcase will be followed by a reception from 9:00 to 10:30pm in the Front and Long Rooms.
DRM300 Performance
Instructor: Ara Glenn-Johanson
Section 1
Date: Wednesday, April 3
Time: 11:30am–12:30pm
Location: Performance Studio (79 St. George St.)
Section 2
Date: Wednesday, April 3
Time: 3:30–4:30pm
Location: Performance Studio (79 St. George St.)
DRM300 will perform their final presentation of naturalism scenes.
DRA3905 Play. Learn. - Brecht's Apparatus and Interactive Performance
Instructor: Antje Budde
Created by Shiu Hei Larry Ng & Tanya Humeniuk as part of the graduate course “DRA3905: Play. Learn. - Brecht's Apparatus and Interactive Performance” with Prof. Antje Budde
Date: Tuesday, April 3
Time: 7:00-8:00pm
Location: Luella Massey Studio Theatre (4 Glen Morris St.)
“Who Cares About Hamlet: ‘To Be [a Capitalist] or Not to Be [a Capitalist]’—Wait, Is That the Question?”
Created by Shiu Hei Larry Ng & Tanya Humeniuk as part of the graduate course “DRA3905: Play. Learn. - Brecht's Apparatus and Interactive Performance” with Prof. Antje Budde
Which stories get told? Who gets to tell those stories? And what would it mean to, instead, rip a story to shreds and dwell in the mess for a while?
In this absolutely unfunded meta-staging of Hamlet, nothing normal will happen. To come or not to come—that is the question!
The souls of the characters of Hamlet are coming back to fight for the right to tell their story. In this cut-throat competition, one character from Hamlet will survive and win the prized funding to put on their production of Hamlet.
As a participant, you are encouraged not to sit still. Inspired by Brecht’s learning plays (or Lehrstücke), this will be an interactive, playful, collaborative, tarrying-alongside-the-shit of a shitty capitalist system and faux-democracy learning experience.
We invite you to join us for some dialectical laughter-in-pain fun!
More info about the course can be found at DRA3905 Play. Learn.
DRM 491 Independent Studies in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
Instructor: Olivia Shortt
Date: Thursday, April 4
Time: 10:30–11:30am
Location: Playhouse (79 St. George St.)
Candice Ann Juttlah, as part of an independent study, will present a solo performance featuring movement, the voice and original text around themes of relationships, family and healing. All are welcome.