are offering a 5 day workshop exploring
"the freedom and naivete of play that is the source of all the work we do."
Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour
of
are offering a 5 day workshop exploring
"the freedom and naivete of play
that is the source of all the work we do."
Their work is rooted in the search to mobilize the actor's imagination within the space.
"What is most important to us, as creators, is to be free."
DATES
Total workshop is 15 hours: Monday June 9 2008 to Friday June 13 2008 from 10am - 1pm each day.
COST
$30 Registration Fee, no other fees required.
LOCATION
Pia Bouman School of Dance
5 Noble Street
Toronto, ON
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Saturday June 7 2008
by phone: 416 526 0023
or email: gilmour@pathcom.com
Theatre Smith-Gilmour is an artistically driven professional theatre company. We are committed to creating theatre developed through an artistic process that gives expression and dignity to people's imaginations and fantasies; that communicates to audiences stories of personal and universal meaning with a compassionate vision of the human condition.
Through stage productions, new play development, workshops and residencies, we promote a living Canadian theatre of image and action combined with text; a theatre rooted in the art of physical, clown and image theatre for a popular audience in Toronto and around the world. In addition the company sustains the growth of a group of performers and designers as creative artists who are the heart and soul of the work.
BRIEF HISTORY
Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith met in 1978 while studying at the School of Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. In 1980, they formed the company and since have created 30 shows, 16 of which were original plays. The company has toured across Canada several times and to 14 countries throughout Europe and Asia. Our work has been nominated for 24 Dora Awards (winning 5) as well as being nominated twice for the Chalmers' Best Canadian Play Award. In 2000-2001, Chekhov's shortsplayed a total of 22 sold-out weeks with rave reviews at the Factory Theatre in Toronto, the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver, Workshop West in Edmonton, the Hong Kong Cultural Arts Centre in Hong Kong, Eastern Front Theatre in Dartmouth and the Saidye Bronfman Arts Centre in Montreal. The show returned to Vancouver for two weeks in March 2002. Part II of the Chekhov Cycle, Chekhov longsIn The Ravine enjoyed a virtually sold-out run at Toronto's Factory theatre in February 2002 and was presented at Carrefour International Theatre Festival in Quebec City in May 2002, The Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Ottawa and the Festival des Ameriques in Montreal in May/June 2003. Part III of the Chekhov Cycle, Dr. Chekhov: Ward 6 premiered at the Factory Theatre in 2004 and Part IV, Chekhov's Heartache premiered at the Factory Theatre in 2005 and was remounted there in 2006. In 2007 Smith and Gilmour travelled to Shanghai, China to create and perform Lu Xun blossoms with three actors from the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre and three actors from Canada. This show is the first ever Sino-Canadian co-production in theatre. Most recently, TSG presented the world premiere of The Mansfield Project - an exquisite and beautifully moving
adaptation of four of Katherine Mansfield's short stories.