Dear Animal | 23 Hamsters

Dear Animal, When you were a young Animal, every February, I used to give away show ideas on our socials. One per day for the month. I did it to prepare a blank slate for new ideas to arrive. I remember once that my old friend, the playwright Kevin Kerr,...

SOUND COMMISSIONS

As part of the AWSS Slow Tour, The Only Animal is commissioning sound artists and composers to create 15 to 30-min compositions that will be played on audio speakers inside the AWSS installation and shared online.  The sound artists were invited to reflect on and...

Dear Animal | A Story that’s Never Been Told

Dear Animal,  “I had a boyfriend once who said that all Hostess products contained nuclear waste and it was every American’s patriotic duty to eat her share.” This is a quote from a NY Times article from the 90s that I cut out and stuck in my journal, which later...
Dear Animal | Standby Sky

Dear Animal | Standby Sky

Hi again there, hi hi. Kendra, here, the co-founder and past Artistic Director of The Only Animal, and you might know that I left the company and Canada in July of this year. For me, The Only Animal was about making theatre in deep relationship with place and the...

The Thousand Year Theatre Directions to the Sites

Directions to YEAR 1 of 1000 Year Theatre: Look, google maps won’t help you so pay attention. There are no real signs up there. Just odd pieces of flagging tape that don’t indicate anything useful. Finding this site is mostly about ignoring tempting side roads. Start...