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Here
you will find summary lists of recent artistic seasons, past
productions, and community building projects. In addition,
you'll see a summary list of our Victoria-based projects.
2007/2008/2009
Seasons
Origins
Theatre Projects presents
The first public reading of this new play
Magdelena’s
Monster
By Kim Seary
A Medieval
Princess--with a lap-top--on a sacred quest, an Amazon warrior
run-away, and an ancient demented Earth Mother, are all trapped
in a cave with a giant water-monster! How will they cope?
Saturday,
August 25, 8:30 PM
Pacific Theatre
@ 12th and Hemlock
The superb
group of theatre artists involved in this project include:
Nancy Baye, Erin Graham, Dolores Drake, & Richard Lett
Director: Teresa Vandertuin
Producers: Kim Seary and Shannon Ryan
A wine
& cheese reception after the reading.
Donations will be gratefully accepted
Limited
Seating, call now to reserve
INFORMATION:
604-739-7663 or kseary@telus.net
Kim
Seary (photo by Sheelah Urquhart)
 Kim
graduated from Studio 58's acting program in 1978. A three-time
Jesse nominee, she received the Best Actress Award in 1985
for her portrayal of Dot in the collective creation "Sex Tips
for Modern Girls".
As playwright,
productions of "Madame Scotchtape" and "Hot Flashes" and "The
Beautiful Thing" have received critical acclaim. She is an
acting teacher, director, and facilitator for new work. Kim
sings with the "Voices Rising" Jazz ensemble and "The Outskirts",
an a capella trio.
Kim's
work with Origins includes her current work as an Associate
Artist as well as directing a workshop reading of Yellow On
Thursdays and as the Assistant Director for Ambushed. Kim
is grateful to the company for this opportunity, and thanks
all the artists involved.
I
Met a Man in Jenin: solo performance by Noah Lepawsky
August
22nd to 26th, 2007 Opening: Wednesday August 22nd, 2007, 8:00pm-9:00pm.
WORLD PREMIERE
Gallery
Gachet - link
88 East Cordova Street, Vancouver
Doors
at 7:30pm, Show at 8:00pm
Matinee on Sunday, August 26th at 6:00pm
10-15$
sliding scale - Aug 24-26
Pay what you can on Wed 22/Thurs 23
Noah
Lepawsky
Noah Lepawsky
is a graduate of Studio 58 acting program at Langara. In the
summer of 2005 he spent seven weeks working in the West Bank
with the International Solidarity Movement. Over the past
two years he has been developing a solo performance about
his experience as a Jewish Canadian working in solidarity
with Palestinians. I Met a Man in Jenin, is the culmination
of this work.
Presented
with the generous support of Origins Theatre Projects
More info:
604 731 1714 or betterthanamos@yahoo.ca
Origins
Theatre Projects was also pleased to be an Associate Producer
of the Tickle Trunk preview production of their latest literacy
play. Presented for free at Gordon Elementary School, April
2007. Congratulations.
More congratulations
are sent out to Donard Mackenzie, our Artistic Director who
graduated from UBC's MFA Creative Writing program. His play
Cherry Blossoms was given a workshop production at UBC's Dorothy
Somerset Studio.
Origins
Theatre Projects is currently in development for some exciting
projects. Return here for more details.
2005-2006
Artistic Season Summary
Celebrate
World Theatre Day with Origins Theatre Projects March 27 2006,
and with the GVPTA on Granville Island Free!
To celebrate
World Theatre Day, Origins supports a scholarship prize for
UBC’s playwrighting program as part of UBC’s Brave New Playwrights.
Call for
Submissions
Gordon Armstrong Playwrights Rent Award 2006
accepted applications March 15th 2006.
This program continues to be available for playwrights throughout
B.C.
The Gordon
Armstrong Playwright’s Rent Award presentation was presented
at the Jessies Nomination party in May. Lucia Fragione was
the recipient this year.
Playreadings:
Last year
we focused on public development of new projects including
a workshop production of the BC historical play Ginger Goodwin
by renowned playwright Bryan Wade, featuring a cast of ten.
This event
was presented for free at the Dorothy Somerset Studio at UBC
and donations were gratefully accepted.
We also
presented readings for the membership of projects in development
and under consideration for production in future seasons.
We also
further established new producing ties with the University
of British Columbia. We looked to collaborate with past partners
in Victoria as a means of extending our work.
Literacy
Project Staged Reading:
We presented
in association with Tickle Trunk Players the literacy play
Poetic License. This show was a particular success and was
presented for free for 400 students at Lord Roberts Elementary
School this past season.
Origins
Theatre Projects serves our community. We offer discounted
and free tickets available to social services agencies. We
also offer theatre workshops, and collaboration and support
for independent projects. Send us an email outlining your
organization, and the request.
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Origins
Theatre Projects Society
Artistic Season
Calendar of Events 2004-2005
Ginger
Goodwin, New Play Artistic Development-
Ongoing thru the season
Play
reading Series—Community Service Events
Open for anyone to participate
Kits Neighbourhood House, fall 2004
Free Admission Total: 21
Beggars
At the Waters Of Immortality, Preproduction, Fall 2004
Beggars At the Waters Of Immortality, PRODUCTION, January
2005
All Performances at Pacific Theatre, 12th and Hemlock, Vancouver
Preview Dress, Thursday January 13thth 8pm, Admission Free
by Donation
Opening Performance, Friday, January 14th, all shows 8pm unless
noted otherwise
Performance Two, Saturday January 15th, 2pm Matinee
Performance Three, Saturday, January 15th,
Performance Four, Tuesday, January 18th
Performance Five, Wednesday, January 19th
Performance Six, Thursday, January, 20th
Performance Seven Friday January 21st
Performance Eight, Saturday, January, 22nd, 2pm Matinee
Performance Nine, Saturday, January, 22nd
Performance Ten, Tuesday, January 25th
Performance Eleven, Saturday, January 26th,
Performance Twelve, Tuesday, January 27th
Performance Thirteen, Wednesday, January 28th
Performance Fourteen Thursday, January, 29th, 2pm Matinee
Performance Fifteen Friday January 29th
This production included availability for discounted and free
tickets for students, limited wage earners,
STORYTELLING
Mr. Mr
Kits Neighbourhood House Winter Festival
Featured Presentation
Everyone Invited, Free Admission
Total Attendance 155
Theatre Games and Career Experience Workshops
Tupper Secondary School, Vancouver School Board
also offered to GAB Youth programs
Open
Rehearsal for Members and Invited Guests
Ginger Goodwin, a feature length play, from B.C.’s early
history
Dorothy Somerset Studio, UBC, March 6th, 2005 7 PM
Provided Free of Charge
Total Attendance: 16
Annual General Meeting June, 17th, 2004
and Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s Rent Award, Cabaret
La Tizaine Restaurant,
Cabaret Readings, and Songs, AND Comedy
Featuring volunteer artists
Free Admission
Donations Accepted to support the
Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s Rent Award
Everyone Invited
Total Attendance 43
PUBLIC EDUCATION:
This
year we had one less production in our artistic season due
to more limited funds. Appropriately, we focused our public
attention on donated and free means of reaching the public.
Our featured work this year was less issue-driven, with an
emphasis on poetry and art.
We
were pleased to work with co-op of artists brought together
as Dumb Prophet to present rarely produced classic plays by
the founder of Irish theatre, W. B. Yeats. To help connect
the public to his work, we conceived and helped our production
partners implement a marathon reading of his poems and plays
dubbed the Yeats-A-Thon. Admission was free by donation with
all proceeds going to the charity, the Actors Fund of Canada.
The event featured writers and actors from the professional
community donating their time to read for the general public.
Yeats-A-Thon,
Sunday January 9th, 10am to 10pm
at the Chapters on Robson, Vancouver.
Admission Free
Estimated participation by all involved is 675
Academic
Connections
We
also began a new relationship with UBC, which has been helping
connect theatre students with the professional community.
Parents
Workshop
Our
last project this season will continue into the next season.
We conceived and facilitated an
Artists as Parents Workshop Discussion, Spring 2005,
as part of GVPTA Theatre Conference, 2005
Free open to the professional theatre community and the public
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Origins
Theatre Projects Society Artistic Season
Calendar of Events
2003-2004
Yellow
On Thursdays
Pre-production-Rehearsals-Public Relations
Various Venues January thru April 2003
Yellow
on Thursdays, Production
All Performances at Performance Works on Granville Island
Preview
Dress, Thursay March 20th 8pm
All Proceeds to The Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s Rent
Award
Opening
Performance, Friday, March 21st all shows 8pm unless noted
otherwise
Performance Two, Saturday March 22
Performance Three, Tuesday March 25,
Performance Four, Wednesday March 26
Performance Five, Thursday March 27th
Performance Six, Thursday March 27th, 1pm, Special High-School
Matinee
Performance Seven Friday March 28th
Performance Eight, Saturday March 29th
Performance Nine, Sunday March 30th 4pm
Audience Education and Outreach
The theme of Yellow On Thursdays is respecting people’s
individual differences, and what happens when people do not
respect such differences. The play is the event around which
we build media education stories on this and related subjects.
Through the media, we are able to get stories about the subject
written that would not have otherwise been written if we did
not produce the play. For example, Georgia Straight wrote
an article that drew attention to the play and the plight
of teenagers who attempt or commit suicide because of confusion
over sexual orientation. Our play program contained educational
essays and information on these subjects as well.
Our
campaign included posters, 10 bus shelter adds, 3 media releases
and handbills. The reviews of the play also served as an excellent
means of audience education on these subjects. The number
of people that benefited from this deliberate strategy is
appropriately large.
Happy
Anarchist
Pre-Production, February thru April 2003
Various Venues
Happy
Anarchist, Site-Specific Co-Production, Limited Seating
The New Amsterdam Café, 301 West Hastings St.
Performance
One, Tuesday, April 15th
Performance Two, Wednesday, April 16th
Performance Three, Thursday, April 17th
Performance Four, Tuesday, April 22nd
Performance Five, Tuesday, April 23rd
Performance Six, Wednesday, April 24th
Performance Seven, Thursday, April 25th
Performance Eight, Tuesday, April 29th
Performance Nine, Wednesday April 30th
Storytelling
Mr.
Mr
Family Weekend Camp
May 9th 2003
Performances Provided Free of Charge by Origins
Kits
Neighbourhood House Winter Festival
Featured Presentation
Everyone Invited, Free Admission
Theatre
Games and Self-Confidence Workshops
GAB Youth, The Centre
Provided Free of Charge for all attending
Also
offered for the Gathering Place but post-poned to next season
Open
Rehearsal for Members and Invited Guests
Yellow On Thursdays
The Gathering Place
March 11th, 2004, 2pm
Provided Free of Charge
Doubting
Thomas, New Reading
October 21st 2004
2065 West 5th Avenue
Provided Free of Charge
Blink
Preview Presentation
January 7th 2004
Provided Free of Charge
Total Attendance: 9
Annual
General Meeting
Part 1 March 21, and Part 2 June 17th 2003
World
Theatre Day Cabaret
Performance Works, Granville Island
March
27th
Joy Coghill, Reading the World Theatre Day Message
Cabaret Readings and Songs
Featuring volunteer artists Adam Joe, Michael Charrois, and
Donard MacKenzie
Free
Admission
Donations Accepted to support the Gordon Armstrong Playwright’s
Rent Award
Everyone Invited
Production
of Blink and Celebration of the 10th Anniversary
of VIFVF
December 2003 to January 2004
Short Film, Commissioned by CineVic in celebration of the
10th Anniversary of the
founding of the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival
Origins Theatre Projects cofounded this event as our final
Victoria based project.
Blink
Presentation for the Decade Project at the VIFVF
Victoria Music Conservatory, February 4th 2004
Total Attendance: (est.) 175
Artistic Season Review and Project Development
Ongoing thru winter 2003-2004
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Past
productions
- Telling
Tales/Touching Tongues with scripts by Sara Graefe
and Ann Fleming
Origins at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre May 2000, directed
by Donard MacKenzie
- Yellow
On Thursdays by Sara Graefe Workshop Production
Origins at Firehall Arts Centre, 99, Directed
by Kim Seary
- Ambushed
by Karen Wickberg workshopped and produced by Origins-
Directed by Pam Johnson, at Gastown Studio Theatre,98
- Wasps
written and directed by Sally Clark Origins at Vancouver
Little Theatre, 97
- Chalk
Body, by Teresa Timpson Workshop Production, Origins
at the Vancouver Cultural Alliance, 96, directed by Kim Seary
- Blue
Dragons, by Gordon Armstrong, westcoast Premiere Origins
at Firehall Arts 96
directed by Roy Surette, with Jonathan Teague
- Diary
of a Madman, adapted for the stage by Donnard MacKenzie,
at the Gastown Studio Theatre, summer 95
- The
Waltonsteins, written and produced by Frannie Sheridan,
a collaboration with
Origins Theatre Projects, at Gastown Studio Theatre, summer
95
- The
Poet, Friend and Dark Lady, an original creation inspired
by Shakespeare’s Love Sonnets, Canadian Fringe Festival
Tour 94, Directed by Rod and Christine Menzies. Pick of
the Fringe in three cities!! Built in Vancouver.
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Selected
Community Building Projects
- Delvecki’s
Closet Associate Producer with Section 8 Productions,
at the Vancouver Fringe 99, winner best Festival production
2000, directed by Craig Hall
- Till
I am Myself Again, coproduction written and directed
by Craig Hall,
Vancouver Fringe 2000
- Persephone’s
Dreams, Tandem Productions, Fringe 2000, Jessie Nominee
- The
Dali/Bundy Exhibit…Kevin Conway, Fringe 2001, Presentation
House Pick
- The
Happy Anarchist, Michael Charois, Site Specific workshop
2002, Performance 2003
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Selected
Victoria Projects
- Transit
Song, by Marcus Hondro New Play/Origins
at Theatre Inconnu 92
- Blake
on a Bed of Dreams by Stanley Frieberg, Open Space
Gallery Victoria
- A
Good Place, written and directed by Donnard MacKenzie
Short Video
- Spring
Awakening, by Frank Wedekind, Directed by Donnard MacKenzie
Kaleidoscope Theatre/Origins Theatre, 23 person cast with
young people
and professional actors and live music, 1993
- Julius
Caesar directed by Karen Rickers, Victoria Studio
Theatre 1994
playing to both public and 5 performances for students
studying the play
- Wooden
Nickels, Film presented with a live-staged
monologue,
Various dates, both Vancouver and Victoria, written and
directed by Donnard MacKenzie
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