Theatre Conspiracy premieres Same Difference at the Shadbolt, April 19 to 23
Immersive mixed-media installation and digital performance examines identity and belonging
Same Difference.
Theatre Conspiracy presents the world premiere of Same Difference at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from April 19 to 23
MIRRORS, IMMERSIVE PROJECTION, and surround sound bathe and sometimes plunge audiences into new cognitive and spacial perspectives in Theatre Conspiracy’s Same Difference.
The mixed-media installation and digital performance led by David Mesiha looks at themes of identity and belonging.
Drawing on experiences of immigrants and refugees, the piece aims to invite audiences to deconstruct perceptions of identities, individuality, differences, and sameness in an ever-shifting environment of mirrors, music, and video imagery.
“As an immigrant I have often been aware that I perpetually exist in-between worlds, cultures, languages and spaces never fully belonging to or feeling whole within one space or another,” Mesiha says in a release. “I wondered if identity is essentially characterized in difference. Same Difference evolved as my pursuit to understand how we evolve a sense of self and belonging. The experience is a meditation on a sense of fracturing that emerges when we exist in-between spaces.”
More information is at www.burnaby.ca/recreation-and-arts/events/same-difference.
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