A Wake for Lost Time
A non-stop, 24 hour, immersive, interactive and interdisciplinary performance experiment that ritually explores how time passes through bodies. It is a chance to explore and meditate on, not only the loss of time, but on how we know time, and how we, as human beings, are continuously at its ever-evolving mercy.
Built as a two-and-a-half-hour performance loop (repeated again and again over 24 hours), A Wake for Lost Time is a performance environment - somewhere between a really good church service, a football game and a really bad party - that envelops the audience participant within a variety of modes of performance: dance, music, clowning, experimental theatre and ritual acts (often of memory, defiance and endurance).
This performance loop, when viewed in isolation, tells one story, but when witnessed in its recurrence begins to speak to itself, evolving (or eroding) alongside the performers over the duration of the piece. When the performance loop can be looped no longer, the wake for lost time begins. But what the wake is, well… in all sincerity... we don't know. It emerges in time.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Wake was initially created as part of the Elephants in the Room Creation Lab at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2014. It has been staged - and often rebuilt - five times since then, each time with a different creative team.
Pi Theatre, Vancouver 2020
(unstaged due to covid)
Carmel Amit, Jess Byiers, Maïna Béland-Rahm, June Fukumura, Z. Mair, Michaela Mar, and Michael Reinhart
Katzman Contemporary, Toronto 2017
Jess Byiers, Jessie Fraser, Nicole DeAngelis, Anahita Dehbonhie, Rebecca Hooton, Erin Humphrey, Naomi Melvin, Michael Reinhart, Michela Sisti
DaPoPo's Live-In, Halifax, 2016
Jess Byiers, Nicole DeAngelis, Andrew Gaboury, Ailsa Galbreath, Benoit Gravel, Hannah Kaya, Monty Martin, Thomas McKechnie, Michael Reinhart
SummerWorks, Toronto, 2015
Donna Marie Baratta, Jess Byiers, Nicole DeAngelis, Anahita Dehbonhie, Andrew Gaboury, Ximena Huizi, Hannah Kaya, Monty Martin, Thomas McKechnie,Michael Reinhart
The Pearl Co., Hamilton, 2015
Donna Marie Baratta, Jenny Egerdie, Jenna Harris, Thomas McKechnie, Kevin Rees, Michael Reinhart, Katie Sly
hub14 Launchpad Residency, Toronto, 2014
Donna Marie Baratta, Nicole DeAngelis, Jenny Egerdie,Jenna Harris, Monty Martin, Thomas McKechnie, Kevin Rees, Michael Reinhart, Katie Sly
Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, 2014
Kanika Ambrose, Donna Marie Baratta, Kathleen Goodleaf, Jenna Harris, Karen Hawes, Thomas McKechnie, Michael Reinhart, Tanya Rintoul, Moez Surani
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