May 29, 2011
Gailey Road Artistic Director Jocelyn Wickett's latest project, Alternative Chances: Exploring the Barriers to Student Success will be presented on
Tuesday May 31st @ 2:00pm
The Lower Ossington Theatre
100 Ossington Avenue
Free admission
Alternative Chances is a research informed play created through discussion, interviews, questionnaires, letters and scene writing. Join the students of Oasis for a dramatic dialogue about the issues that have gotten in the way of school, and the meaning of second chances in an alternative setting.
Presented in partnership with the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Alternative Chances is written and performed by: Kevin Andrews, David Lemus, Oshay Martinez, Bridgett Mulhall, Hilary Prashad, Jah Reign Sutherland-Taylor, Jordan Weir-Ellsworth, Megan Nykolaiszyn, Joseph Reisman and PJ Weinert and will feature special guest appearances by Toronto artists: David Delisca, Rebecca Applebaum, Supinder Wraich, Sedina Fiati and Greg Thomas.
For more information, contact Jocelyn Wickett at Jocelyn.Wickett@tdsb.on.ca
You can also check student's work at the Alternative School Art Show, Alternative Tentacle at Xpace Gallery, 58 Ossington Ave.
All the best,
Tara
Friday, May 27, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Gailey Road: Spring 2011
Spring 2011 finds me on sabbatical in Australia (where it is fall) and Jocelyn Wickett and Gillian Lewis in Toronto. Jocelyn is teaching the last eight weeks of the school year at OASIS Alternative High School and working on her MA thesis. Gillian is busy with a variety of interesting stage and production management projects.
Harriet’s House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre
My book Staging Harriet’s House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre is now in its second draft and has been sent to editor Shirley Steinberg at Peter Lang Publishers for her feedback and approval.
At the centre of the book is a personal narrative on how I researched, wrote and produced Harriet’s House, a research-informed theatre project that I’ve written about extensively in past blogs. The book has five chapters and three appendices:
Chapter 1: The World of Research-Informed Theatre
Chapter 2: Writing and Workshopping Harriet’s House
Chapter 3: Assessing Research-Informed Theatre
Chapter 4: Producing Harriet’s House
Chapter 5: Questions and Answers About Harriet’s House, Research-Informed Theatre and Arts-based Research
Appendix A: Harriet’s House (the script used in the 2010 production at Hart House Theatre)
Appendix B: Biographies of the cast and artistic team of HH
Appendix C: A Selected Bibliography on Research-Informed Theatre.
Staging Harriet’s House looks at the subject of research-informed theatre from the viewpoints of two different worlds, social science research and theatre arts. The book has been written for two audiences. The first audience is made up of social science researchers who are interested in designing, writing and producing their research in alternative, post-foundational ways. The second audience is made up of theatre artists interested in how to create and produce a research-informed theatre.
Harriet’s House @ The Mothers at the Margins Conference
Last week, Harriet’s House was given a public reading at the Mothers at the Margins conference, the sixth international conference on motherhood sponsored by the Australian Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (AMIRCI). The cast was made up of my colleagues and friends at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) as well as my partner Margot and our Brisbane friend Tori Hadley. The QUT cast members were Catherine Doherty, Sue Grieshaber, Cushla Kaptizke, and Jo Lampert. The cast did an excellent job. A spirited, engaged discussion followed the reading covering such topics as the challenges of coming out in mid-life and of being out in rural Australia, the politics of transnational adoption, and decisions of guardianship when adopted parents become ill. My colleagues from QUT were excited by the response research-informed theatre evoked from the audience and two of them (Catherine and Sue) have decided that they would like to experiment with writing performance scripts from their own research.
Ana’s Shadow: A Sequel to Harriet’s House
In addition to working on my on staging Harriet’s House, I have also begun to work on a sequel to the play which is tentatively titled, Ana’s Shadow. The script is now in its second draft and will be read next month by a reading group of Melbourne actors organized by Australian actor, writer and director Maureen Andrew. Feedback from this reading as well as feedback from Gailey Road’s Artistic Director Jocelyn Wickett will help me work towards a third draft of the play which we will use in the four-day workshop we are planning for Ana’s Shadow this coming August.
Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Funding for the Harriet’s House Project
Finally, I received the exciting news this spring that I been granted research funding for continued research on the Harriet’s House project. The funding will be used for continued development of Ana’s Shadow and for researching the impact of both plays when read by teacher education students studying at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education where I work as a Professor of education.
The next Gailey Road blog will appear in mid-July after my return to Toronto from Australia. It will include news about Gailey Road’s August workshop for Ana’s Shadow and an update on the progress of my book Staging Harriet’s House.
All the best,
Tara
Harriet’s House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre
My book Staging Harriet’s House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre is now in its second draft and has been sent to editor Shirley Steinberg at Peter Lang Publishers for her feedback and approval.
At the centre of the book is a personal narrative on how I researched, wrote and produced Harriet’s House, a research-informed theatre project that I’ve written about extensively in past blogs. The book has five chapters and three appendices:
Chapter 1: The World of Research-Informed Theatre
Chapter 2: Writing and Workshopping Harriet’s House
Chapter 3: Assessing Research-Informed Theatre
Chapter 4: Producing Harriet’s House
Chapter 5: Questions and Answers About Harriet’s House, Research-Informed Theatre and Arts-based Research
Appendix A: Harriet’s House (the script used in the 2010 production at Hart House Theatre)
Appendix B: Biographies of the cast and artistic team of HH
Appendix C: A Selected Bibliography on Research-Informed Theatre.
Staging Harriet’s House looks at the subject of research-informed theatre from the viewpoints of two different worlds, social science research and theatre arts. The book has been written for two audiences. The first audience is made up of social science researchers who are interested in designing, writing and producing their research in alternative, post-foundational ways. The second audience is made up of theatre artists interested in how to create and produce a research-informed theatre.
Harriet’s House @ The Mothers at the Margins Conference
Last week, Harriet’s House was given a public reading at the Mothers at the Margins conference, the sixth international conference on motherhood sponsored by the Australian Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (AMIRCI). The cast was made up of my colleagues and friends at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) as well as my partner Margot and our Brisbane friend Tori Hadley. The QUT cast members were Catherine Doherty, Sue Grieshaber, Cushla Kaptizke, and Jo Lampert. The cast did an excellent job. A spirited, engaged discussion followed the reading covering such topics as the challenges of coming out in mid-life and of being out in rural Australia, the politics of transnational adoption, and decisions of guardianship when adopted parents become ill. My colleagues from QUT were excited by the response research-informed theatre evoked from the audience and two of them (Catherine and Sue) have decided that they would like to experiment with writing performance scripts from their own research.
Ana’s Shadow: A Sequel to Harriet’s House
In addition to working on my on staging Harriet’s House, I have also begun to work on a sequel to the play which is tentatively titled, Ana’s Shadow. The script is now in its second draft and will be read next month by a reading group of Melbourne actors organized by Australian actor, writer and director Maureen Andrew. Feedback from this reading as well as feedback from Gailey Road’s Artistic Director Jocelyn Wickett will help me work towards a third draft of the play which we will use in the four-day workshop we are planning for Ana’s Shadow this coming August.
Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Funding for the Harriet’s House Project
Finally, I received the exciting news this spring that I been granted research funding for continued research on the Harriet’s House project. The funding will be used for continued development of Ana’s Shadow and for researching the impact of both plays when read by teacher education students studying at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education where I work as a Professor of education.
The next Gailey Road blog will appear in mid-July after my return to Toronto from Australia. It will include news about Gailey Road’s August workshop for Ana’s Shadow and an update on the progress of my book Staging Harriet’s House.
All the best,
Tara
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