Author:sean

As many of you have likely seen, there’s a beautiful and inspiring TED Talks video circulating from arts administrator and self-professed theatre lover Ben Cameron. HHG Theatre has for the past few years been seeking to re-define and re-mission ourselves in the hopes of using our art to affect social change. There is so much in these 13 minutes that is inspiring and mobilizing. In a world of disconnection, we can “be the change” that reconnects us all. Please watch, […]

Thanks again Canada Council for the travel grant. Money well-spent, in our humble opinion. Great meeting today with Seattle’s ACT (A Contemporary Theatre), where Re:Union director John Langs is the newly appointed Associate Artistic Director. Here’s hoping we can get our little Canadian show produced on this great American stage. And if today’s meeting was any indication, it is entirely possible. What’s more, it might only be the first in a remount tour that will include several stops in 2014, […]

As I’m sure many of our peers are experiencing, this profound experience of navel-gazing, self-definition, and tempered self-flattery has at times produced epiphanies of “Ah, so that’s who we are!” As Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre writes its first-ever Operating Grant, we’ve never been asked to define our overall Artistic Vision. Though you may not know the various projects that lie at the root of this Vision, we hope that you might recognize who we are somewhere within.   “Re:Union […]

We are simply bursting at the seams with exciting news that we can’t even really share yet. But after many months of planning, pitching, rewrites and some good forture, Re:Union will indeed see another day – or several. There will be a remount here in Vancouver. Then again in the immediate vicinity. Then again on the national stage. Then again quite possibly on the international stage – okay, Seattle. So there is still some life left in this little show […]

We are very sad and frustrated to hear of the imminent demise of The Waldorf. On January 20, 2013, this East Vancouver cultural hub – a success story in grass-roots cultural entrepreneurism if ever there was one in Vancouver’s recent past – will close its doors because its owners would now prefer to profit off The Waldorf’s legacy of transforming a neighborhood and develop more condos. For more info on this sad story, read the Scout Magazine article.

On December 22 HHG co-artistic director Alexa Devine closes the run of Ghost River Theatre’s Everything is Terribly Nice Here, which also marked Alexa’s Calgary debut. Ghost River’s Eric Rose and David van Belle have mounted a strong production of this gripping political dialogue (an otherwordly conversation between a assassinated filmmaker and his “fundamentalist” assailant, based on the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh at the hands of Mohammed Bouyeri). The play provides a wonderfully provocative and balanced exchange […]