Saturday, March 21, 2009
AWARDS DAY
Well, the cast reconvened in early March for pick up rehearsals for our shows in Seattle at OtB... The first order of business was giving out the Children's Choice Awards from PuSh. They were really happy to get them. Thanks again Children's Choice Awards & The Jury from Surrey!!!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Choice!
Congratulations to everyone who was involved in That Night Follows Day Vancouver for winning 7 Children's Choice Awards, including MOST EDUCATIONAL FOR PARENTS, FUNNIEST VOICE, BEST USE OF ADJECTIVES and BEST OF THE FEST! Thanks to the Jury from Surrey, you guys rock! And thanks to all the people who donated their trophies to us so all the kids in the cast can get one. You rock too.
Here's a shot of all our loot.
Here's a shot of all our loot.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Super Fun!
That Night Follows Day is super fun because we get to tell off all the adults and tell them that we have to put up with them saying stuff like "You tell us NO!". I think it's a great play for adults to see.
Monday, February 2, 2009
A Wonderful Experience
That Night Follows Day is a fun (yet tiring) play. We children get to tell parents, teachers, babysitters, Jamie, Maiko etc what they tell us in the same tone they say it to us. It may be good or bad, if we were in a bad area of the play and one of us said something that could be good or bad we would say it in a bad, mean twist of a voice, but if we were in a good area saying something that could be good or bad we would say it in a nice voice. Parents have their ups and downs, but children do too. Overall it's been a wonderful experience and I bet both the adults watching and the children doing this play will learn something from it.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
That Night Follows Day
that night follows day is the awesomest way to have fun shouting out what parents tell us. It could be nice things that they tell us or bad things like how parents say no all the time. Now that part of the play is fun
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
That Night Follows Day Vancouver
Welcome to the blog for That Night Follows Day Vancouver!
You feed us. You wash us. You dress us. You sing to us. You watch us when we are sleeping. You make promises that you think we won’t remember. You tell us stories with happy endings, and stories with unhappy endings and stories with endings that are not really endings at all. You explain to us what love is. You explain to us the different causes of illness and the different causes of war. You whisper softly when you think we can’t hear. You explain to us that night follows day.
–excerpt from Tim Etchells’ That Night Follows Day
A play for adults performed by children, That Night Follows Day starts out from observations as to how the adult world shapes the world of the young. With humour and great clarity, the evening explores the economies of parenthood, upbringing, discipline, control and care that define the adolescents’ worlds. As so often in his equally poetical and analytical works, Etchells also turns the spotlight on the actual situation of the performance. In That Night Follows Day, this revolves around the social and aesthetic construction that makes adults the audience, listening to children and adolescents on stage as they talk about the way adults project their world onto them. But also about how both — adults and children — are imprisoned and shaped by language when they imagine and try to appropriate their own future.
Written in response to conversations Etchells’ had with the children, the script catalogues the many ways a child’s world is determined by that of adults. With great clarity and humour it examines the systems of parenthood, upbringing, discipline, care and welfare that define children’s’ and adolescents’ worlds. The play not only gives a fresh slant on the old ‘nature vs. nurture’ debate but also allows an adult audience to rediscover the sense of wonder as well as some of the darker fears we all experienced growing up.
Feb 4 – 7, 7pm Feb 7 & 8, 2pm
Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
Post-show Talkback
Feb 8 (matinée performance)
By Tim Etchells
Direction James Long & Maiko Bae Yamamoto
Stage Management Jan Hodgson
Lighting Design John Webber
Set Design James Long
Production Manager/Technical Director Elia Kirby
Production Assistant Jennifer Stewart
Performers Ailish Elisabeth, Margot Berner, Luke McAndless-Davis,
Andrew Warner, Garnet Barrett, Jordan Zanni,
Rebecca Zanni, Phoebe Conway, Na’ku’set Shepherd Gould,
Dexter van der Schyff, Yuki Nakahara, Sofia Newman,
David James Wilson, Keita Dueck, Leina Dueck,
Elena Anderson Kirby, Kino Roy
That Night Follows Day is co-produced by Theatre Replacement, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and On the Boards.
You feed us. You wash us. You dress us. You sing to us. You watch us when we are sleeping. You make promises that you think we won’t remember. You tell us stories with happy endings, and stories with unhappy endings and stories with endings that are not really endings at all. You explain to us what love is. You explain to us the different causes of illness and the different causes of war. You whisper softly when you think we can’t hear. You explain to us that night follows day.
–excerpt from Tim Etchells’ That Night Follows Day
A play for adults performed by children, That Night Follows Day starts out from observations as to how the adult world shapes the world of the young. With humour and great clarity, the evening explores the economies of parenthood, upbringing, discipline, control and care that define the adolescents’ worlds. As so often in his equally poetical and analytical works, Etchells also turns the spotlight on the actual situation of the performance. In That Night Follows Day, this revolves around the social and aesthetic construction that makes adults the audience, listening to children and adolescents on stage as they talk about the way adults project their world onto them. But also about how both — adults and children — are imprisoned and shaped by language when they imagine and try to appropriate their own future.
Written in response to conversations Etchells’ had with the children, the script catalogues the many ways a child’s world is determined by that of adults. With great clarity and humour it examines the systems of parenthood, upbringing, discipline, care and welfare that define children’s’ and adolescents’ worlds. The play not only gives a fresh slant on the old ‘nature vs. nurture’ debate but also allows an adult audience to rediscover the sense of wonder as well as some of the darker fears we all experienced growing up.
Feb 4 – 7, 7pm Feb 7 & 8, 2pm
Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
Post-show Talkback
Feb 8 (matinée performance)
By Tim Etchells
Direction James Long & Maiko Bae Yamamoto
Stage Management Jan Hodgson
Lighting Design John Webber
Set Design James Long
Production Manager/Technical Director Elia Kirby
Production Assistant Jennifer Stewart
Performers Ailish Elisabeth, Margot Berner, Luke McAndless-Davis,
Andrew Warner, Garnet Barrett, Jordan Zanni,
Rebecca Zanni, Phoebe Conway, Na’ku’set Shepherd Gould,
Dexter van der Schyff, Yuki Nakahara, Sofia Newman,
David James Wilson, Keita Dueck, Leina Dueck,
Elena Anderson Kirby, Kino Roy
That Night Follows Day is co-produced by Theatre Replacement, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and On the Boards.
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