THE CHAINS
Artist: EVAN WEBBER / PUBLIC RECORDINGS (Toronto)
In-Development Presentation
January 26 @ 7pm, January 27 @ 2pm
Duration: 75 minutes
THE CHAINS – Evan Webber / Public Recordings
Photo by Angela Lewis
Image description: A man with dark hair, wearing a red t-shirt and dark wash jeans, stands in an apartment with wooden floors. Behind him are book shelves, a large floor lamp and a table and chair. There is a red patterned rug on the floor. The room is dark with a small amount of light falling on the man and the floor in front of him from an unseen window.
THE CHAINS is performance in the shape of a personality test, a story in 20 questions about the start of the new millennium; about Terror, Love, Power, the Common Sense Revolution, and a teen Antigone production. The people in the audience find their way through the questions and each one circles the answer they think is most correct. Then, all together, they learn what their results mean.
Working with the form of the personality test means this is a piece about You, meaning, in other words, that it’s about certain spaces-between: like the space between who You are and what You’re like, between what You read and what You think it means, between the way You come-of-age and the way You go-to-hell. This one’s about You, meaning, more precisely, that it’s a story. And what’s the difference between a story and a test?
Written and Directed by: Evan Webber
Dramaturgy by: Ame Henderson and Fan Wu
Research and Design by: Sherri Hay, Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, Jeremy McCormick and Daaimah Mubashshir
Produced by: Evan Webber and Public Recordings Performance Projects
THE CHAINS is created with support from The Canada Council for the Arts, FADO Performance Art Centre, Goethe-Institut Toronto.
EVAN WEBBER is a writer and performance maker interested in the possibilities of shared experience and in the relationship between texts and events. His projects span theatre, choreographic work, media and publication have been presented across Canada, Europe, Australia, Malaysia and Japan.
Evan is an associate artist and producer in the Toronto-based collective Public Recordings, which has produced his interdisciplinary projects including the iterative, award-winning performance encyclopaedia (co-created with choreographer Ame Henderson 2013-17), the counter-collective CAPITALIST DUETS (2015), community theatre magazine New Dramatics (2016) and the church pageant Other Jesus (2017), most recently presented by Festival TransAmériques in 2019.
CONTACT
Evan Webber
evan@publicrecordings.org
publicrecordings.org
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