FRAGILE THINGS

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Students of the University of Winnipeg Theatre and Film Department present:

Fragile Things: An Evening of Solo Performances November 20 – November 23, 2019 at the Asper Centre for Theatre and Film.

This series of solo performances is conceived, developed and performed by members of the fourth-year honours Devised Theatre class and directed by Claire Borody.

Series One performances run Wednesday, November 20 and Friday, November 22 at 8 PM.

Series Two performances run Thursday, November 21 at 8 PM and Saturday, November 23 at 7 PM. 

The title is borrowed from the title of writer Neil Gaiman’s collection of short stories by the same name.

Words in the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract invisible, gone once they’ve been spoken – and what could be more frail than that. Neil Gaiman                                                                                  

Live performance is ephemeral. Each solo will bring the spectator into a world the performer/creator has constructed. That world exists for a time and then disappears.

Performers are exploring themes and content of personal interest and have developed hybrid forms of expression uniquely suited to their own artistic needs. From a foundation of concrete sources – image, music, props, selected text and scored action – each performer has created a unique original solo performance piece. Solos are visual, aural and textual collages, influenced and inspired by art-forms such as dance, literature, film, music, the visual and plastic arts, as well as popular culture and journalism. All performances originated in a laboratory setting in which ideas were tested through specific tasks and improvisation. Performance material was shaped from this experimentation and represents a wide range of performance aesthetics and themes.

Themes include entrapment, urban poverty, rising above life’s barriers and external expectations, the true meaning of home, the importance of finding one’s voice, time and the human experience and self-actualization.

So many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. Neil Gaiman          

The performances are arranged as two separate series, each featuring four 20 to 25-minute solo pieces.