Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Canada)
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 places: Canada’s North and South. After having met on an Arctic expedition from Iqaluit to Greenland, Williamson Bathory and Parry now share a stage; these two powerful singers and storytellers, aided by music and video projection, give voice and body to the histories, culture and climate we’ve inherited, and ask how we reckon with “these sharp tools.”
[A]stonishing and almost frightening in its transgressive power… —Now
In the Inuktitut language, when a knife is dull, it is said to “have no face”. The word “kiinalik” translates to mean the knife is sharp—or, “it has a face.” Embodying the stories of their heritage, Parry and Williamson Bathory put a face to the colonial histories, power structures and changing climate that lie between them, producing an unforgettable encounter in the process.
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Artist Bio
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Canada)
Award-winning writer, performer, director and songwriter Evalyn Perry is the Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, the world’s longest-running and largest queer theatre company. Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, the first Artistic Director of Inuit Theatre at Qaggiavuut, is an artist and performer of uaajeerneq—Greenlandic mask dancing—as well as a musician, drum-dancer, storyteller, and actor.
Venue
1218 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver
Showtimes
January 30–February 2
POST-SHOW TALKBACK: JAN 31
100 minutes, no intermission
7PM
(Jan 30–Feb 2)
2PM
(Feb 2)
Tickets
NOTE: Online tickets are no longer available for Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools. Tickets maybe be available at the venue box office, one hour before showtime. The passholder allotment has also been reached.
Access
INTRODUCTION AVAILABLE
ASL-INTERPRETATION ON JAN 31
RELAXED PERFORMANCE ON FEB 1
ASL-interpretation on Thursday, January 31st at 7pm.
Relaxed Performances
Feb 1 7PM at Performance Works
Visual story for the show
Visual story for Performance Works
Credits
WRITERS, PERFORMERS Evalyn Parry and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory CREATORS Evalyn Parry, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Erin Brubacher and Elysha Poirier with Cris Derksen DIRECTOR Erin Brubacher LIVE VIDEO Elysha Poirier ORIGINAL COMPOSITION AND LIVE MUSIC Cris Derksen and Evalyn Parry SOUND Aleda Deroche LIGHTING DESIGN Rebecca Picherack SET DESIGN Kaitlin Hickey CREATED IN Buddies Residency Program DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT BY Theatre Passe Muraille’s BUZZ new play development program, Qaggiavuut, Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts TRIP program ORIGINALLY CO-PRODUCED BY Buddies in Bad Times Theatre with Theatre Passe Muraille TOURING SUPPORTED BY Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Kingfisher Foundation, Bulmash-Siegel Fund
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