Author:sean

This Stays in the Room is a collective creation that HHG Theatre co-artistic directors Alexa Devine and Mindy Parfitt have been working on for a couple of years.  The process started with the themes of shame and forgiveness. All the contributors have dared to walk bravely with strength and humour into personal experience of being shamed or shaming. Forgiveness is fascinating exploration as each person’s relationship with it’s significance greatly varies. The play is entirely based on truth. This Stays […]

So we’re right in the thick of things, powering through rehearsals for Except in the Unlikely Event of War. And this crack team of theatre artists is now a superb team of filmmakers. A good deal of this hi-concept new play takes is rendered through electronic media: radio commercials, voiceovers, digital projections, and even film clips. Yesterday was Day 1 of a three day guerilla-style film shoot. Highlights so far: Making quick use of index cards and clip boards as […]

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre is looking for volunteers (ushers, bar staff, etc) for our upcoming co-production with Pi Theatre of Sean Devine’s newest play Except in the Unlikely Event of War, running November 15 – 30 at the Roundhouse Community Centre. If you want to see this provocative, satirical political thriller FOR FREE, send an email to sean@horseshoesandhandgrenades.ca Spots are filling fast, so don’t delay. Also, we’re offering a special promotion called #CRUSHRUSH. People 25 years and under will […]

Radio in Resolute Bay is never going to be the same since ORBIT Media brought the infamous Tommy Bane to the Arctic airwaves. This hotbed of right-wing controversy and provocation is ripping it up on a nightly basis in Resolute, and the local army base’s jarheads wouldn’t have it any other way. Of course, they still have to pass him through the new security checkpoints, just like every other citizen-under-surveillance. To find out more about Tommy Bane, and to read […]

This past August 23 HHG Theatre held a public showing of The Forgiveness Project as a work-in-progress, after a wonderful, exhausting and tumultuous week-long workshop of exposing and giving shape to the most intmate, hidden away, and treasured secrets of a group of theatre artists that prove to be as brave, loving, funny and sensitive as any that we’ve worked with before. And wonder of wonders: we had a crowd of about 35 people who came out for this showing, […]

These are indeed busy times for Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre. On Tuesday August 20th, we had activity going on four separate projects: THE FORGIVENESS PROJECT is currently in workshop, with HHG co-artistic directors Mindy Parfitt and Alexa Devine working with the full creaive team, with a public presentation of our work-in-progress set for Friday August 23 @ 3pm. If you’re interested in attending, please email mindy@horseshoesandhandgrenades.ca  Space is limited. The Forgiveness Project premieres in March 2014. EXCEPT IN THE […]