PuSh Blog

The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes

November 14, 2023

A man sits on a couch leaning away from what appears to be a taxidermy tiger. Behind him is a wall of mounted animal taxidermy heads.

When AI takes over from human intelligence, how will people be treated? Weaving a narrative through human rights, sexual politics, and the projected dominance of artificial intelligence, The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes is […]

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Sound of the Beast

November 14, 2023

A person half-kneeling with crossed arms while holding a mic. The person is looking up at the light, There is a woman projected behind them.

“I’m not here to tell you how to feel. I’m just here to tell you what happened.”  Urgent, intimate and magnetic, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard gives a performance of profound poetic justice with storytelling, spoken word […]

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Ramanenjana

November 14, 2023

A wide shot of three performers looking directly into the camera in various poses. The performer in the centre is a woman looking directly into the camera. She is in a wide stance, holding up one finger on each hand. The performer on the left is twisting her body towards the center. The performer on the right is a man lunging forward with both his arms raised behind his back.

Ramanenjana is a witty, captivating docufiction performance about a dance event that made history.  In Malagasy, Ramanenjana means something that makes you rigid but also makes you strong, but the dance was pathologized, labeled part […]

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LORENZO

November 14, 2023

A man holds a butcher’s knife and long stick as he gazes at the audience.

A life-affirming story about death, conveyed through the popular mediums of storytelling, servitude to the audience and live carpentry, a combination not seen on the world stage since Nazareth, circa AD30. In 2020, Ben Target […]

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L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie

November 14, 2023

A man with graying hair sits on the backrest of the sofa clutching it tightly. Beside him, is a Black woman who appears to be sleeping, her feet hanging off the edge of the seat.

(Love Like a Buried Cathedral) PuSh @ SFU Woodward’s Anniversary Series With staggering subtlety and lyricism, L’amour telle une cathédrale ensevelie tells the story of exiled Haitian families through opera-theatre. Born into just such a […]

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Dear Laila

November 14, 2023

A woman smiling and curiously sniffing a jar full of herbs. She appears to be looking at an ornate box containing letters, a stack of cards, a small diorama of a building, a tabletop cactus, and a tiny jar.

“Dear Laila, you are five now and have started to ask me where I grew up, and why we can’t go there. This is me trying to give you an answer.” The seeds of this […]

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The Café

November 04, 2022

Different choices of tea and coffee

Here is an invitation to be a voyeur, to eavesdrop on private conversations, to witness intimate relationships up close and personal. The Café invites audiences to explore seven vignettes by nine playwrights of various ethnicities, […]

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Okinum

November 04, 2022

Digital collage of Émilie Monnet, with long dark hair dressed in black, sitting and stroking a large beaver illustrated in orange and red. the entire background is bright blue, and the surface of the water has outlined irregular shapes in gradient shades of blue.

In this hypnotic monologue performance, Émilie Monnet interprets a recurring dream and transmits a message of empowerment to the audience. In Anishinaabemowin, the word “okinum” means “dam,” and the narrative of Monnet’s dream involves a […]

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