A play about housing refugees, a dialogue on madness, and more as rEvolver Festival enters final weekend
Boundary-pushing offerings include a wonderfully weird website-EP and collagelike text fragments
Stéphanie Cyr's messier objects EP. Photo by Marjo Wright
Upintheair Theatre presents the rEvolver Festival until June 6
IT’S YOUR LAST chance to catch the form-pushing offerings at the 2021 rEvolver Festival—all of it free.
Amid the array available till June 6, check out Szepty/Whispers: Dialogue, an aural collage of voice and text fragments by artists including Jiv Parasram, Kendra Place, and Manuel Axel Strain. Each piece explores the way our lineage relates to madness, mental health disability, trauma, and neurodivergence. Amid the questions creator Veronique West asks with the project are: How do we trace the origins of experiences that often aren’t talked about? How do we translate ways of thinking, feeling, and being across generations and intersections of identity? What does speaking make possible? What does silence hold space for?
Elsewhere, playwright Zahida Rahemtulla presents a reading of The Frontliners on June 6 at 2 pm. Her new script is set in January 2016, when Canada was in the throes of resettling the first wave of 25,000 Syrian refugees. It forcuses on three frontline workers battling it out amid Vancouver’s housing crisis to move families out of an East Van hotel. It will be read by performers Francis Dowlatabadi, Adrian Neblett, and Jaspreet Saund.
And if you haven't had a chance to check out rising Vancouver dance artist Stéphanie Cyr's messier objects EP, you're in for a treat. Shot by Peter Smida and set to Taj Sunga's retro-synth beats, the website-performance-album is 15 minutes of awkward, weird fun. The sight of Cyr rolling on her stomach across an East Van playground on top of a skateboard, wearing a space-age tracksuit and a bad moustache and sunglasses? Pure joy.
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