100 Watt & Anarchic Shakespeare
100 Watt develops original adaptations with youth and professionals based on the plays of William Shakespeare. These plays use Shakespeare’s text as the foundation for playful, anarchic creations that are rooted in the present.
Tales Told by an Idiot, Signifying Nothing?
- MACBETH & the media; how do we process tragedy? Seen through the eyes of the 3 Witches.
Love is Merely Madness
- Shakespeare, mental health & youth, all set in the Asylum for the Lovesick, and hosted for an audience of observers by a Doctor of the Lovesick called Rosalind. Includes text from 7 of Shakespeare’s plays.
Lear’s Kingdom
- Filial duty, love and aging parents–seen through the eyes and hearts of youth. It all happens on a subway racing through a big urban city.
Contact Kristina Watt if you are interested in one of these plays, would like more information or would like to study Shakespeare with 100 Watt (email her here).
100 Watt & the Planet
Original creations built in collaboration between youth and professional theatre artists. Each creation is inspired by a love and a curiosity about the planet–and our relationship to it. Some were built as site-specific creations, for instance at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
Wild Life
- 6 children are called out of their urban lives by a mysterious horse to come to Sable Island. Their travels carry them into the magic of Nature, always there but they could not see it. How can you care if you don’t know it’s there?
These Enchanted Woods
- a lone and lonely branch, the SNAG, calls a Conference of Trees. In front of an audience of humans, the Trees speak. What is the voice of the forest?
Twelve Drops and 1 Moon
- Luna, the Moon, & 12 trapped drops of water: is it really possible to own a piece of nature? 12 Drops and 1 Moon was commissioned by Canada’s Museum of Nature for the opening of the spectacular Lantern.
The Taxon Trials
- A trial for survival: 6 animals–the whooping crane, snow leopard, wild mustang and more–demand their Day in Court. Humans and Wildlife battle for their continued existence while a judge presides. Set against the dioramas of the Museum of Nature (Ottawa).
[ID: Seven youth wearing black pants and long sleeve shirts crouch and stand on blocks in front of the Nature Museum’s bison exhibit. There are colourful fabrics at the front of the stage.]
NoitanilloP: Kingdom and Partnerships
- all rooted in the work of pollination (ie plant sex), this new creation explores the longing and need for partnerships.
Connections: Two is better than One
- courtship rituals in nature & in humans…maybe not so different? If we share so much, why then, the need for ego and dominance over the environment?
[ID: Seven youth flutter in a circle, arms outstretched like birds, they wear red boas. They have white face masks on their foreheads. Above them are ropes that intersect with fabric pinned to it like a clothes line. Behind is a white screen with a foliage shadow projected upon it.]
Contact Kristina Watt if you are interested in one of these plays or would like more information. (Email her here). Script samples available by request.
Also don’t forget to check out “12” here and “STUFF” here.
2017-18 Company: Kosta, Madison, Ioana, Katarina, Caitlin, Rosa, Marianna, Sarah, Cassidy, Kareila, Alexandra.
In only 6 years, TWA alumni are now in flight: at post-secondary institutions such as the National Theatre School, Ryerson, PACE, Concordia, Studio 58, University of Ottawa and York. Alumni have been cast at the GCTC, NAC, the Magnetic North Theatre Festival and are producing their own work, e.g. Tiny Dynamite at Ottawa Fringe; In-between at Fresh Meat Festival.
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE WINNER! CAPITAL CRITICS AWARD 2016
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