A Playground Productions development showing presented June, 2019 at Montréal Arts Interculturels.
Eva is a 20 year old trans girl who has woken up in Rio de Janeiro on the day when she will finally complete her transition. Eva is on a fantastical adventure in pursuit of the perfect boy and the perfect body set in an introspective wonderland. Eva grapples with her identity as she encounters ridiculous and strange characters. Whether she’s Tindering or debating with Christ, all is stumbled upon in this magically turbulent world.
Text: Gabe Maharjan
Direction: Michelle Rambharose
Performers: Gabe Maharjan and Dakota Wellman
Stage Management/Lighting Design/Production Management: Nikita Bala
Costume, Set & Props Design: Nalo Soyini Bruce
Sound Design: Evan Stepanyan
Photos: Joseph Ste. Marie
Interview with Montreal Theatre Hub: https://montrealtheatrehub.com/2019/06/25/preview-trans-identity-explored-in-playground-productions-eva-in-rio/
Maskulin(e) follows two actors who perform and critique a series of masked scenes that explore masculine stereotypes. Gradually it is revealed that the actors perpetuate the same behaviour that they are condemning. The tension rises between them as they continue to carry out their tasks as narrators and fight for higher status.
This bilingual theatre performance uses half-mask theatre and the actors as protagonists to explore manifestations of stereotypical masculinity and how they can be harmful to our thoughts, actions and society. It poses the questions: How can we be both perpetrator and victim of toxic masculinity? It was first presented in 2018 at Mainline Theatre, then in 2019 at Monument National with Festival Vue sur la Releve.
Text: Alexandre Lang, Curtis Legault, Michelle Rambharose
Direction: Michelle Rambharose
Performers: Alexandre Lang and Curtis Legault
Stage Management: Lyanna Labelle-Rocha
Lighting Design: Alizee Millot, Diana Chui
Sound Design: Joseph Browne
Set & Mask Design: Nalo Soyini Bruce
Costume Design: Nicolas Ruzza
Artistic Advisors: Anthony Kennedy & Nathaniel Justiniano
Mainline Photos: Svetla Atanasova
Vue Sur la Relève Photos: Festival Vue sur la Releve
Chattermarks, a production by Cabal Theatre, inhabits the reckoning of whether a treaty ends a war. In Antarctic wastes, two estranged sisters and a crumbling paramilitary outfit collide in Bleeding Falls, where fog meets ice.
Cabal Theatre presented Chattermarks at Théâtre La Chapelle in partnership with Centaur Theatre’s 2020 Wildside Festival from January 12 - 22, 2020
Story by Joseph Shragge, Kyle Croutch & Anthony Kennedy
Text by Joseph Shragge
Dramaturgy & Additional Text by Kyle Croutch
French Translation and Consultation: Gabrielle Chapdelaine
Director: Anthony Kennedy
Movement Director: Michelle Rambharose
Performers: Benita Bailey, Jillian Harris, Roxane Loumède, Alex Petrachuk, Meagan Schroeder
Surtitle conception / Subtitles: Elaine Normandeau
Sound Design: Devon Bate
Set Design: Bruno-Pierre Houle
Costume Design: Sophie El-Assaad
Light Design: Jon Cleveland
Technical Director: Tristynn Duheme
Stage Manager: Trevor Barrette
Assistant Stage Manager: Annalise Peterson-Perry
Confiteor: Vol II was an immersive theatre piece where performers explored varied reflections of their 'best revolutionary selves' and invited audiences to do the same by engaging with a dystopian, high-stakes world set in the year 2032. The show provided a uniquely intimate experience that called for the critical examination of oppressive systems inherent within capitalism, such as surveillance and propaganda, that make radical movements of social justice necessary. In confessing the ways in which we cower from our most revolutionary impulses and desires for change, Confiteor: Vol II poses the challenge to its audience: to be more revolutionary in your daily life. It was presented in 2016 at the Old Paper Factory in Griffintown, Montreal.
Creators and performers: Devon Bate, Burcu Emeç, Jillian Harris, Anthony Kennedy, Alex Petrachuk, Michelle Rambharose, Meagan Schroeder, Allie Shapiro & Peter Shaw
Stage Manager: Anna Lytvynova
Design Consultant/Light Design: Darah Miah
Sound Design: Devon Bate
Music & Original Composition: Xavier León, malky
Projection Design: Xavier Leon, Anthony Kennedy
Video Design: Anthony Kennedy
Voice Performance: Noah Drew
Video Performance: Gabriel Schultz
NOMINATED BY THE MONTREAL ENGLISH THEATRE AWARDS (METAS) - Outstanding Independent Production
Outstanding Ensemble
Outstanding Emerging Artist(s)
Outstanding Set Design
Outstanding Sound Design
Photos by Anthony Kennedy
Confiteor: Vol I extrapolated on nine individuals’ reflections on seduction: the performance of presenting one’s supposed best self through learned behaviours. The performance and event was centred around discovery, divulgence and persuasion and was approached through multiple theatrical forms. Confiteor: Vol I unraveled the problematic, the absurd and the erotic through dances of seduction. It was presented in 2016 at the Rialto Piccolo Theatre in Montreal.
Creators and performers: Devon Bate, Burcu Emeç, Jillian Harris, Anthony Kennedy, Alex Petrachuk, Michelle Rambharose, Allie Shapiro, Peter Shaw
Composers: BUFFLO, Xavier León, Malky, and tracks featured by SUUNS
Lighting Design: Darah Miah
Photos: Emily Tognet
In[bodied] was a performance exploring the revolt, the mockery, the celebration and the attempted escape from gender.
This devised performance investigated the theme of gender in performance. It was created over the course of six months in both Erlangen, Germany and Montreal, Canada by students from Concordia University and Friedrich–Alexander University. It was presented at Concordia’s Short Works Theater Festival in 2014.
Created by: Simon Banderob, Amelia Castillo, Britta Janssen, Marcel Kieslich, Alex Lasek, Hannah Liesenfeld, Nicolas Ruzza, Annie Maheux, Silvia Poxleitner, Mathis Raabe, Michelle Rambharose, Agnès Rivet & Caitlin Ross
Photos by Andreas Donders