Upintheair Theatre announces rEvolver Festival 2022: The Changing Stage
Fest’s 10th-anniversary edition features live productions, digital presentations, and special events
Gender? I Hardly Know Them.
Upintheair Theatre presents rEvolver Festival 2022 from May 25 to June 5
MARKING UPINTHEAIR THEATRE’S 10th-anniversary presentation of rEvolver Festival is a lineup of nine live productions—after a two-year hiatus at its home venue at the Cultch—as well as two digital presentations and much more.
Programmed by co-artistic producers Daniel Martin and David Mott and resident curators Kayleigh Sandomirsky and Lili Robinson, the fest features innovative and contemporary new works by emerging and mid-career artists from across Canada. There’s everything from a queer non-binary sketch comedy and an at-home friendship ritual to a theatrical-jazzercise session and an ancestrally rooted cooking show.
This year’s “pivot” theme is interdependence, with shows expressing the collective need for community and a feeling of togetherness, the chance to reconnect and share stories again.
Touring productions include Built Different by Nanaimo’s Couch Dwellers Productions; Gender? I Hardly Know Them by Edmonton’s Tiny Bear Jaws; and LUCKY by barlizo productions in Montreal.
Shows by Vancouver artists are Controller, Nebula Company; Holy Moly, Jarin Schexnider; Light Rapid Transit, Coffeehouse Theatre Society; Losing It at the End of the World, written by Emily Schoen, directed by Bailey Bates and Shea Heatherington; Passenger Seat, The Library Performance Collective; and SEETHERED, Zoe Wessler.
The digital presentations are FR (Friendship Ritual), Remote Viewing, Toronto; and Harvesting Ancestral “Tea-chings”, by Vancouver’s Siobhan Barke,.
Built Different.
Updrafts Reading Series is back, featuring Roughhousing, Chloe Payne; A Hyena’s Trail, Kijo Eunice Gatama; An Empty House, Francis Dowlatababi (digital presentation); and Modeling, seeley quest (digital presentation).
Real Talks presented with Gateway Theatre is a conversation with Pedro Chamale, Derek Chan, and Makambe K. Simamba on social and political art making as well as best practices around ethical storytelling. The live event will also be digitally streamed.
To top it all off like the cherry on a sundae is rEvolver rE-Connects, a gathering on the outdoor patio of The Cultch on May 28 from 4 to 6 pm with a barbecue, drinks, and free ice cream.
More information is at www.upintheairtheatre.com.
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