Author:sean
Research for the upcoming DAISY project (the newst play by HHG co-AD Sean Devine) is moving along. Lots of reading. Lots of archival viewing. DAISY is about the television political advertising campaign of the 1964 U.S. Presidential election; a campaign which forever changed the tone of political communications. Check out this amazing political ad, created by DDB for the Democrats. Called “Confessions of a Republican”, this scripted ad features an actor portraying a Republican voter who is so afraid of […]
Big thanks to Glenda MacFarlane and Gord Shillingford at Scirocco Drama for their support and dedication in getting Sean Devine’s Re:Union to print. The book will be on shelves in September, and Sean will be in Toronto October 21 to read from the script as part of Scirocco’s Fall 2013 series release. We’re pretty excited here at HHG, and hopefully we’ll organize some kind of release party. Stay tuned!
As you may have heard, we’ve got some exciting plans coming up for 2013/14, incuding an international tour of our 2011 hit Re:Union. First off, we’re taking it to Seattle, in partnership with ACT Theatre and New Century Theatre Company. So check out this page from ACT Theatre. Tickets go on sale October 2. It’s official. Now we just need to hear about our funding.
HHG Theatre is very excited to announce that The Forgiveness Project, one of our upcoming new productions set to premiere in Spring 2014, will be produced at Gallery Gachet, which is “a unique artist-run centre located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Gachet is a collectively-run exhibition and studio space built to empower participants as artists, administrators and curators.” We’re thrilled to be bringing our collective creation into this unique space. We’re also very excited that our production design will be built […]
Well, we certainly did not waste a penny of our recent Canada Council Audience & Market Development Travel Grant. This past June 10 – 11, we made our final trip for this project, this time to Seattle and to Portland. The objective of these trips was to develop touring and production opportunities for Re:Union, as well as to develop relationships with other theatre companies and arts-related organizations. On June 10 we had a meeting at ACT in with the Marketing, […]
What an amazing day it is indeed, to celebrate theatre here in Vancouver. Yes, the sun-filled forecast doesn’t hurt, either. But today, the artists at HHG Theatre celebrate WTD by checking out a performance of ONE from our good friends Ghost River Theatre. We’re also busy creating some theatre of our own. Here’s a little peek into all that we’ve got to celebrate here at Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre. We just got some great news that The Forgiveness Project […]
