Ines Ortner (director and costume designer) approached me back in September with her designs of Ophelia’s big Act 5 dress, the Red Sweater Dress. I was immediately intrigued- a dress made out of over 25 knitted red sweaters, a train that limits actors’ movement and a cage around the head containing LED lights. Not something [...]
Rhinoceros first crash landed into my life (pun intended) on February 6th of 2012. I was sitting on my bed, and when the email pinged onto my screen it took a few deliberate moments for the slow smile to bloom on my face. I was going to Stage Manage Rhinoceros. I was going to be [...]
Our season of plays and classrooms have closed but UBC’s Frederic Wood Theatre is still hard at work as a laboratory. Theatre artists and scholars from four universities, along with students, actors and consultants have taken up residence in order to push the boundaries immersive audience experience with a workshop for a project called The [...]
I’m in my third year at UBC, and in the intermediate year of the BFA Acting program – with one year left to go. Right now, we are gearing up to open Macbeth, a date that is fast approaching on March 22nd! I am playing Angus in Macbeth, a Scottish thane and warrior usually played [...]
The chilling ring of swords lights up Rehearsal Room 128. Young men in jeans and girls in hoodies perfectly execute a slow-motion war scene after only one full day of fight choreography. And as we all watch from the side of the room, the jeans and hoodies refuse to matter. It looks unreal. I’m the [...]
Every so often, a show comes along that you are proud to be a part of, which you feel makes you a better person, by getting to speak those words and wear that vest and glue your eyebrows; a show where you go to bed at night wanting morning to come so badly so you [...]
~ A Guest Post by Theatre Studies M.A. student Katrina Dunn: Conferences are ‘showtime’ for academics. Here discourse, original thought, scholarly discipline and mastery of language are suddenly translated into a performance event with its own set of aesthetic rules, modes of hierarchical positioning, and systems of feedback and judgement. It’s a site of community [...]
A few questions with BFA Design student Wladimiro Woyno, Set and Lighting Designer for our upcoming production of Problem Child and The End of Civilization. Q: How did you get interested in Theatre Lighting & Design? A: I started working in Theatre when I was in high school, my first ever production was Dracula, which was [...]
“The Trial of Judith K” is a great show. Working on the scenic design for this show was quite a challenging and laborious process and seeing the final product together with the sound and lighting made it worth all of the effort I put into it. It is sometimes difficult to see how one’s own [...]
Billy Bishop Goes to War was first written and performed by alumnus John Gray and Eric Peterson in 1978. Our alumnus are still soaring 30 year later as Billy Bishop wings his way back to Toronto’s Young Centre with Soulpepper Theatre! Creators John Gray and Eric Peterson have returned with the beloved story of the [...]
