We're under Obstruction!
1. The piece must be done in an empty space (bodies allowed) without props or electricity
2. The inspiration for the peice must be drawn from a page selected randomly from the business press.
3. The piece must use a satiric style.
Following three sold-out iterations of the Hive party series, Vancouver’s Progress Lab network of indie theatre-makers comes together to test the theory that creativity feeds on limits.
Inspired in part by The Five Obstructions by Jørgen Leth and Lars Von Trier, the core artists of each participating Progress Lab company will submit, a few at a time and under a cold spotlight, to a list of obstructions delivered by a shadowy MC. The companies will then be commanded to create their next production around those limitations. The obstructions for each company have been developed in secret by their peers – a custom-designed set of obstacles that will prompt each artist to adapt to a new approach to making theatre. Their individual tendencies toward form, place, style, theme, design, period, story are exposed and obstructed, spilling the artist’s bag of tricks all over the stage and out of reach.
On October 27, the first three Progress Lab companies received their obstructions: Radix (artistic director Andrew Laurenson), Boca del Lupo (artistic directors Sherry Yoon and Jay Dodge), and Felix Culpa (artistic directors David Bloom and Linda Quibell). They will perform their new works in 2012, and more obstructions will be delivered.
DATE: March 26th
TIME: 7pm - checkin, mingling and pre-show activities
8pm - Boca del Lupo show
Immediately after show - judging, new obstruction and party into the night
LOCATION: 1422 William St map
TICKETS: $15 buy tickets here
more info here: progresslab.ca
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Progress Lab is an ad hoc arts service organization that has a very active imagination and an energetic core of movers and shakers. Our goal is to establish Vancouver as an international centre for theatrical innovation. It is made up of non-profit, professional organizations with a median age of about 10 years, and a history of producing works of extreme theatrical daring. Progress Lab exists to meet the emerging challenges of our artists and companies and acts to build a stronger community and practice through communication, mutual support and staging theatrical events. Progress Lab organizes events that highlight and playfully challenge the community as a whole.