Produced by The Only Animal with PHS Community Services. Out On A Limb. Stories about growing up and growing older. Community members relate coming of age and turning points in life.
Taking Theatre Places It Has Never Been Before
Produced by The Only Animal with PHS Community Services. Out On A Limb. Stories about growing up and growing older. Community members relate coming of age and turning points in life.
Using our custom augmented reality app developed by Jesse Scott, participants have created an immersive site-based experience for audiences at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. Jumping off from the themes of courage and fear, each Writer-Director produced a short video-based piece that is integrated into the app.
The launch of a year of art in, around and in support of the expanded Mt Elphinstone Provincial Park and the premiere of three new short films on the forest. Local filmmaker Sophia Dagher, and this is it's own Robert Studer with Vancouver's Craig Anderl and others.
A man recovering from amnesia, the wife who doesn't want him to remember, and a woman who washes up out of the sea. Memory and desire are the twin rip tides at work in this lost and found story. A radio play/live action hybrid that plays up and down the beach, in and out of the water.
This program asks companies to read or create a performance of one of 50 short climate change plays in support of the United Nations COP23 meetings chaired by Fiji and hosted in Bonn, Germany.
The Only Animal's contribution to the collective event HIVE 3, Sugar blends five stories of first love into a candy-coloured confection. Five women concot their miniature tales of bittersweet romance using baking ingredients and cookies. These intimate object theatre pieces staged on breadboards balanced on the knees of two spectators take place in a 1950s frosted kitchen by the multitalented Keith Murray.
Follow The Only Animal deep into the forest December 20, the darkest night of the year, on a quest to bring back the light. The sun disappeared into the trees and has not been seen since. Some say it sank to the bottom of the sea. Journey into this dark and frozen world to find the spark of a new start.
HIVE 2 took over 2 warehouse spaces at the Digital Media Centre for a 9-day marathon of perspective-rocking, intimate, outrageous, and eclectic performances by 11 independent B.C. theatre companies. Our installation you and the moon used interactive video, animated illustration, wild shifts of scale, and one very surprising performer to tell a love story for an audience of one.
you and the moon was picked up by The Cultch and remounted in 2010 in the Micro Theatre Series
Follow The Only Animal deep into the woods on February 13th, 2016 for Sticks & Stones: a forest puppet show. A trail walk will reveal the secret strange creatures of the undergrowth, some tender and green, some ancient and craggy. Puppets made from stick, leaf and moss will show you the forest anew.
HIVE is a performance event created by 11 of Vancouver and Victoria's creation-based theatre companies. In 2006, these companies created 11 intimate performances for audiences ranging from one person to twenty. The event used every corner of The Chapel, a converted funeral home that is now a venue and art gallery in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Creeker is an intimate listening experience for one that challenges how we are in the city. Walk city blocks with sound artist Nancy Tam as she guides you into unexpected places. Creeker displaces the rhythms and sounds of Roberts Creek, from the ocean to the headwaters, onto the urban landscape. A lucid dream of the forest and stream, mapping the primeval flow onto the urban now.