PuSh Blog

Lolling and Rolling

November 03, 2022

Jaha Koo, who has short black hair and is wearing glasses and a black T-shirt and headphones around his beck, is DJing. In the background is a video of green glitches.

Video, music and monologue come together as Jaha Koo takes on the absurdities of linguistic imperialism. The main subject is the South Korean phenomenon of tongue-tie surgery, a procedure that makes it easier for patients […]

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This is the Point

November 14, 2018

PRESENTED WITH THE CULTCH This “play about love, sex, and disability” runs the gamut from joyous celebration to unflinching drama as it paints a collective portrait of real-life individuals whose lives have been touched by […]

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salt.

November 14, 2018

UPDATE JAN 27, 10AM:  We’re happy to confirm that this afternoon’s matinee performance of salt. is going ahead as scheduled! If you had a ticket to Friday or Saturday night’s performances that you have not […]

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Prince Hamlet

November 14, 2018

PRESENTED WITH UBC THEATRE AND FILM IMPORTANT UPDATE: Unfortunately, the Thursday Jan 24th performance of Prince Hamlet had to be cancelled due to the sudden illness of a performer. If you have not yet exchanged your […]

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Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools

November 14, 2018

PRESENTED WITH TOUCHSTONE THEATRE A concert, a conversation and a multimedia performance all in one, Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools is the meeting point for two people—Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and queer theatre-maker Evalyn Parry—and two […]

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Copper Promises – Hinemihi Haka

November 14, 2018

PRESENTED WITH THE DANCE CENTRE Solo dance artist Victoria Hunt uses movement, sound and image to tell a story. The themes are heritage, tradition and reclamation; the subject is Hinemihi, a ceremonial meeting house that […]

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Suddenly Slaughter

November 14, 2018

From PuSh Artists-in-Residence The Biting School comes this take on a major work of Iranian theatre. Abbas Nalbandian’s 1971 Suddenly, This God Lover Died in the Love of God, This God Slain Died by the […]

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Zvizdal (Chernobyl – so far so close)

November 13, 2018

Members of the Antwerp-based art collective BERLIN, together with journalist Cathy Blisson, spent five years filming Nadia and Pétro Opanassovitch Lubenoc, an elderly couple living deep within the irradiated Chernobyl exclusion zone in a place […]

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