Training to Survive, III: Primus Theatre: Workshops in Newfoundland
In November and December of 1995 primus Theatre performed Alkoremmi, The Night Room and Far Away Home in St John’s. The singular quality of their work attracted a great deal of attention, and audiences were impressed and intrigued by the performances. On 27-29 November primus conducted two series of...
| Published in: | Canadian Theatre Review |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
1996
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.88.005 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.88.005 |
| Summary: | In November and December of 1995 primus Theatre performed Alkoremmi, The Night Room and Far Away Home in St John’s. The singular quality of their work attracted a great deal of attention, and audiences were impressed and intrigued by the performances. On 27-29 November primus conducted two series of workshops which were attended by some 15 local theatre practitioners. The workshops ran in two series—mornings for two hours and afternoons for four—and each series could be taken as an independent entity or in combination. The morning workshops, consisting of video presentations, group discussions, and presentations by the primus actors, were geared toward participants interested in the creation and organization of original, alternative, artist-based performance. The afternoon workshops introduced the participants to the physical and vocal exercises which primus uses in their development of characters and performance material. According to Ker Wells of primus , who undertook to read a draft of this article, |
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