Author:sean

The folks at HHG Theatre wish our friends and community a Happy Holidays and the best for the New Year. We’re glad the Mayans got it wrong. 2013 promises to be a busy year for Horseshoes & Hand Grenades. We’ll be bringing you two public readings in April from our new outreach & community engagement series Pull The Pin. Co-artistic director Sean Devine is continuing to write and workshop Except in the Unlikely Event of War, his new play in […]

Ever since our 2009 production of Palace of the End, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades has shown a strong interest in expanding our programming beyond our theatre productions. Simply put: we wished to broaden and extend the overall “experience” for everyone involved in our work: both our audiences and our artists. As our works themselves have bec0me more politicized, socially relevant, and immediately at the crux of what it is to be human, so too has the desire to delve deeper into the […]

We recently did a bit of a re-tooling of our website, hoping to make our work and processes a little more accessible to you, while still providing quick access to our social media sites and info on our past and current projects. We hope you visit and visit often, and we look forward to posting more blogs about the projects and people connected to Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre.

By Guest Blogger: Heidi Taylor (dramaturg for The Forgiveness Project) HHG co-artistic directors Alexa Devine and Mindy Parfitt, along with Playwrights Theatre Centre artistic director Heidi Taylor, have been working up north at Caravan Farm Theatre on a script creation worshop for our newest work “The Forgiveness Project”. Time signatures in music give us the rhythmic rule of a piece – a waltz, a foxtrot, and so on. Time signatures in creation processes impact the work we make, too. So coming […]

HHG co-artistic director Sean Devine:  Just heading back to Vancouver after a day of readings and talks in Seattle with our good pals at New Century Theatre Company. NCTC participated in the development of Re:Union back in Spring 2010, and now we’re looking to mount our first international co-pro (and theirs, too) with a Seattle production set for Spring 2014. Today we had a reading of the 2011 production draft of Re:Union, with NCTC member Jennifer Taylor as Emily Morrison, […]

Last December, HHG held our first creation workshop for “The Forgiveness Project”, an original collective creation. We’ll be describing more about the ongoing development in the next few months. But to start off, here’s some feedback on last year’s first session from HHG Associate Artist and project sound designer Noah Drew. — Oops! I said I would write this blog shortly after the December workshop for The Forgiveness Project. I’m finishing it now on Feb. 1st. Shame on me! That […]