In Conversation with...Hrant Alianak
Tue October 11, 2005 Wednesday, November 16, 2005
7:00 PM
Festival House, 1st Floor
1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Playwrights Theatre Centre's popular In Conversation with... series
continues with an intimate and wide-ranging conversation with Canadian
theatre original, Hrant Alianak. A true Canadian trailblazer,
Hrant will talk with Vancouver theatre critic, Jerry Wasserman, about
his extraordinary body of work and his dogged pursuit of an independent
vision of theatre as a playwright, director and producer, most recently
with the formation of his own production company, Alianak Theatre
Productions, in Toronto. In Conversation with...Hrant Alianak
promises to be a highly insightful and inspiring look at the history
and future of Canadian theatre through the work of one of Canada's
theatre pioneers. Please join us at Festival House (1398
Catwright Street, 1st Floor) for this one-night only event beginning at
7:00 PM, Wednesday, November 16, 2005. Admission is by donation.
About Hrant Alianak: Since his 1972 debut as a playwright, with his play Tantrums
at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, Hrant has had an enormous impact
on Canadian theatre. Plays he has written and directed include
his Gangster trilogy, Night, Passion and Sin, and Lucky Strike, as well as The Blues (which received a new independent production in Vancouver in 2004), and The Big Hit. His latest play, The Walls of Africa,
played to sold-out houses in Toronto and was nominated for 8 Dora
Award, winning 3 including Best Production. In 2003, Hrant became
the first playwright in Toronto history to have two plays running
concurrently at the same theatre (Theatre Passe Muraille in it's two
adjoining spaces). The plays were The Walls of Africa and a new production of The Blues,
both of which Hrant directed. Twelve of Hrant's plays have also
been published and he is currently working on a new plas as well as a
film adaptation of The Walls of Africa. A multi-Dora Award nominee and winner, Hrant has also directed for opera and television. His TV movie, Michael and Kitty,
received 3 Gemini Award nominations. As an actor, he has appeared
in over a hundred television programs and films including Atom Egoyan's
Family Viewing, Robocop, Nikita, Nero Woolf, and Monk.
About Jerry Wasserman: Jerry Wasserman has written and lectured extensively on Canadian and American theatre. His anthology, Modern Canadian Plays,
now in its fourth edition, is the standard textbook in the field.
A longtime theatre critic for CBC Radio, he currently writes reviews
for the Province Newspaper and for his website, www.vancouverplays.com.
To make a reservation for In Conversation with...Hrant Alianak, please call Playwrights Theatre Centre at 604-685-6228 or e-mail plays@playwrightstheatre for more information.
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