WORLD PREMIERE
In Association with Touchstone Theatre and co-presented by the frank theatre company
Morag, You're A Long Time Deid
By Claire Love Wilson & Peter Lorenz
June 9 -19, 2022
The Russian Hall
Morag’s death left a silence in her place. When her grand-daughter Sam inherits her piano, she also inherits the mystery of Morag’s story. An intimate letter composed of fragmented Scottish ballads leads Sam to uncover Morag’s possible queerness. In piecing together Morag’s history through their shared Scottish musical heritage, Sam discovers a voice of her own.
This new experimental musical warps, disrupts, and reconfigures traditional Scottish storytelling, ballad singing and participatory community dance. Reimagining ceilidh theatre from a queer perspective, original compositions are playfully interwoven with electronic loops and interactive dancing to tell old stories anew.
(Pictured: Claire Love Wilson. Photo by Sewari Campillo)
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DATES:
June 9 -19th, 2022
WHERE:
The Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave)
Showtimes & Special Performances
Tuesday 8PM
Wednesday 1PM – please note: there is no evening performance on June 15
Thursday 8PM
Friday 8PM
Saturday 8PM
Sunday 3PM
Artist Talkback: Sat, June 11
Pay What You Can: Wed, June 15 @ 1pm
COMPANY ARTIST BIO
This transnational collaboration between Scottish-Canadian creator/performer CLAIRE LOVE WILSON and Austrian director/performance-maker PETER LORENZ emerged from a 5-year-long artistic conversation on cultural heritage, place-making in performance, and queer musical storytelling. Claire and Peter’s respective experiences in experimental theatre, contemporary opera and indigenous studies complement each other, allowing them to reach beyond their individual imaginations. As a result, they have nurtured a long-distance co-creating, co-writing and co-producing relationship built on mutual trust, honesty and care, which they generously extend to their collaborators and audiences.
Pictured: Rob Thomson, Claire Love Wilson and Rory Comerford. Photo by Sewari Campillo
CREATIVE & PRODUCTION TEAM
Produced by Claire Love Wilson & Peter Lorenz
In Association with Touchstone Theatre and co-presented by the frank theatre company
Original Story & Concept by Claire Love Wilson
Written by Claire Love Wilson & Peter Lorenz
Performed by Claire Love Wilson, Steve Charles, Rob Thomson, Sally Zori & Dennis Joseph
Directed by Peter Lorenz
Dramaturgy by Daniela Atiencia
Musical Direction by Sally Zori
Sound Design by Rob Thomson & Nicole Lamb
Composition & Arrangements by Claire Love Wilson & Rory Comerford
Cultural Protocol and Consultation by Dennis Joseph
Set & Lighting Design by Wladimiro A. Woyno R.
Costume Design by Jessica Oostergo
Production Management/Technical Direction by Nicole Lamb
Stage Management by Elsa Orme
Communications Management by Anahita Monfared
Front of House Management, Sponsorships & Communications by AJ Simmons
Box Office Management & Photography by Pedro Augusto Meza
Videography by Christian Yves Jones
Accessibility Coordination by Anika Vervecken
Sound Operation & Live Mix by Kezi Jacob
Light Operation by Jack Chipman
Production Assistance by Joy Wu
Set Assistance by Jela Ahn
DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT
Touchstone Theatre, the frank theatre, Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, The City of Vancouver, Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service & Sport, Austrian Cultural Forum Ottawa, Push International Performing Arts Festival, Theatre Replacement, Creative Scotland, Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland, Scottish Storytelling Centre, University of the West of Scotland Theatre Lab
Morag Audio Introduction
This show is low-vision friendly. We worked with our low-vision consultant, Kristy Cassie, to create an Audio Introduction for folx who are blind or have low vision with information about the show, who is in it, what the room and the performers look like etc.
- We are also happy to help with:
- Pick-up at nearby bus stops
- Giving a touch tour of the space before the show
- Let us know what you need by contacting FoH at [email protected] or by phone or text at 416 841 8393
Grandma's Dance
The team of the upcoming experimental musical Morag, You’re a Long Time Deid presents an extended audio track as a sonic window into their detailed development work that brings together traditional Scottish ballad singing with live loop soundscaping and imaginative dance facilitation. Through the process of warping, disrupting and re-configuring traditional Scottish storytelling and ballads, follow the protagonist Sam as she endeavors to piece together fragments of her grandmother Morag’s silenced story and discovers a voice of her own.
Singing at Sen̓áḵw
An audio walk with Xwechtaal and Claire Love Wilson
Join Squamish cultural leader Xwechtaal (Dennis Joseph) and Scottish-Canadian multidisciplinary artist Claire Love Wilson as they walk and sing together at Sen̓áḵw. This journey brings you to the edge of what is presently known as Kitsilano, on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations, where you can listen alongside Claire as Xwechtaal shares stories of the land, his grandfather, and his visions for the future of Sen̓áḵw.
