Author:sean
Over the course of the creation and development of This Stays in the Room, we experiemented with a number of media for how we wanted to depict the real and fragmented selves that will be exposed on stage. Some high-tech media, some low-tech. But one medium that resonated strongly was the simplest of all: chalk. The ubiquitous image of the ‘chalk outline’, the personification of the remnants of a once-living person, became a symbolic vehicle for transferring these ‘characters’ that […]
The first week of rehearsal for This Stays in the Room has come and gone, and as each rehearsal is a process of discovering what the actual process is, we’ve come up with a fun and simple ritual to start and end each day at Progress Lab 1422. The SPOON ritual consists of each person having their own small wooden spoon with their name on it. Each person takes their spoon from the ‘OUT’ jar in the morning, then gathers in the […]
Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Theatre is looking for volunteer ushers and concessions servers to help support our upcoming production of This Stays in the Room, our bold and daring new collective creation, based on true stories of shame and forgiveness. Running March 19 – 30 at Gallery Gachet, we’ll be happy to let you see the show for free in exchange for your volunteer support. To register for one of the spots, please click here and follow the easy instructions.
As you’ll be hearing soon, our new piece This Stays in the Room represents a lot of firsts for HHG Theatre. It’s our first collective creation, our first time using our own lives as ‘content’, and our first site-specific piece, as we’re producing this bold, new work at Gallery Gachet in the DTES. And…it’s the first time we’ve invited the community into the design experience. Director Mindy Parfitt and Production Designer Andreas Kahre are leading a workshop on the themes […]
This Stays in the Room is a collective creation theatre piece which uses the themes of shame and forgiveness as a springboard for creation. Incorporating true stories, the play also addresses how a story changes as it gets repeated over time. This Stays in the Room will be produced at Gallery Gachet from March 19 -30 2014. An important part of mounting a play in an art gallery is to explore the connection between visual and performance art. For this […]
“The stage is partitioned into several areas, at times giving the sense of distinct, dedicated spaces; at other times lending the impression of worlds colliding and overlapping. It’s a multi-dimensional, tapestry-like warehousing of the tools, furnishings, memorabilia, egos and curiosities of the worlds of advertising and politics, as remembered and catalogued by a singularly neurotic mind. The machinery of electronic media is omni-present. In fact, there is space above all of this (literally) for thought and imagination to be rendered in […]
