Particle

Nominated for Best New Creation, Prix Rideau Awards 2016.

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audience & Media Responses to Particle?

“Particle @ Undercurrents leaves me lost in a sea of contemplation in the most beautiful way. MOVING. @KristinaWatt is more than compelling.” (C Billings)

“I saw the play last night at  and was slowly thrown sideways by it. It’s contemplative , humorous, with piercing lines I woke up thinking still about.” (G Nuotio)

“Particle was splendid and @KristinaWatt1 was so fun to watch!” (C McGrail)

“CONGRATULATIONS on an excellent beginning with Particle! It was amazing how Kristina managed to make the stage feel so incredibly full when it was only her. Every time you left the stage I couldn’t wait for “who” would come on next (though secretly hoped it would be the Scot).” (T Efford)

“Particle was special in the way that, like a performance, it was ephemeral, an instant, but lingers.” (Evan Gilchrist)

“Kristina Watt was captivating…” (Wes Babcock – New Ottawa Critics)

“It is pure fun…Particle succeeds in inviting the audience to experience a delicate moment of shared understanding. I can highly recommend that you see it. Bring a mop though, because your brain might explode” (Kat Fournier – Capital Critics Circle)

“…. Tensions made manifest through a variety of approaches, conflicts born of the search for meaning. It all pushes us closer to some kind of ephemeral connection, that attempt to answer the mystery of why we are together watching something, the air fills with a little electricity… A wonderful show!…” (L Fyffe, playwright)

“Particle is endearing, ingenious, often laugh-out-loud funny and at times deeply moving.” (D Whitely, Artistic Director of Plosive Productions)

“Particle was magnificent. I’m still thinking about it even now. Trying to figure things out. Wanting to see it again. To me, that’s very much a mark of success.” (L Aronovitch)

“I caught your performance and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it! What an astounding work of art! Virginia Woolf’s work is not easy to boil down into a play, let alone to only one hour. But you absolutely mastered it, and you gave me so much to think about that has already proven, and I mean this sincerely, life changing. I have read Virginia Woolf, but not THE WAVES. I hadn’t realized until this play that there was one great work of world literature that pays tribute to the kind of love that can emerge among a group of friends. But, although the depiction of friendship between two people is common and romantic love is common in novels, I don’t believe that it is common in literature to see depicted what you were talking about, which is this extraordinary love within a group of people, a group of friends. You showed so beautifully that this friendship, this entanglement, can matter so deeply that it will touch all of their lives in ways that they cannot even fully comprehend, so that a rift in the friendship (that beautiful scene with the throwing of the poem) matters so fundamentally, on some sort of universal level, because this love matters, deeply matters, in a profound and mysterious way; anything that disrupts that love is a real tragedy. ” (S Hamilton, Natl Defense Agency)

“As well as presenting philosophic thoughts on life and death, you made it entertaining.  Having had lots of physics education, I found your “lecture” on waves interesting and amusing. Your allusion to your disappearing father was very touching.” (D Trumpler)

“An absolutely wonderful show, it resonated very deeply with me and gave me a proper perspective on what is happening in my life!” (Barry Karp)

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Particle is still Developing…

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Thank You to: Ottawa Fringe Festival, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Third Wall Theatre Company, Theatre 4.669, the University of Ottawa Theatre Department, Theatre Smith-Gilmour & Theatre Gargantua (OAC funding support)