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Thought Residencies

The Thought Residencies are back! This season, hear four long-form conversations between artists about theatre, creation and community. All hosted by b Current Artistic Director and FOLDA Co-Curator, Marcel Stewart. The Thought Residencies were founded in 2014 as short musings from innovative Canadian theatre makers, produced by Spiderwebshow in partnership with b Current Performing Arts.

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Erin Shields - Thought #9 - Yay for Dramaturges!

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2019/04/24

It’s nice to dig into a new project with a dramaturg I’ve worked with before. Having Bob White sit beside me during the first read of a new play was reassuring. I know that he fundamentally knows how I write and what I’m going for with this very fresh piece. Yay for dramaturges.

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Erin Shields - Thought #8 - The Banff Centre

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2019/04/23

I'm at the Banff Centre right now working on a new play. This place is amazing - the mountains are beautiful, the staff is lovely, and there are forest creatures prancing by the window of my studio. Everything about this place makes an artist feel valued, which is a strange sensation. We're so accustomed to working in dirty, underfunded facilities on projects that at times seem only driven by passion that it's a shock to the system to have a clean, beautiful place in which to eat, sleep and create

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Erin Shields - Thought #7 - Crosspollination

Thought Residencies ·

2019/04/18

Day 7: Crosspollination Like most artists I know, I always have many projects on the go at the same time. As I move between them: from a project in rehearsal to a project in a first-draft reading to a project in a dream phase to another in research mode, I try to keep them separate. Inevitably, however, an idea or a line or a character will pop from one play into another, creating this strange sort of discourse between pieces which have nothing in common aside from the fact that I’m writing them

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Erin Shields - Thought #6 - Theatre School

Thought Residencies ·

2019/04/17

I’ve spent a lot of time with theatre students lately. At John Abbott College, Bishop’s University and The National Theatre School. I’ve been struck by their curiosity, intelligence and challenging questions, some of which I truly struggle to answer with the same level of curiosity and intelligence. They are thinking deeply about how we treat one another, respect one another, deal with our past and make art. I think we’re going to be fine.

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Erin Shields - Thought #5 - Fire

Thought Residencies ·

2019/04/17

I felt a growing sense of dread as I watched the video clips: smoke billowed, the spire toppled, flames leapt from the City of Light. - Notre Dame’s on fire, I told my daughters. - Has anybody died? - No. No, I don’t think so, I said and felt a moment of relief. It’s then I thought of the Hunchback.

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Erin Shields - Thought #4 - Learning and Living in...

Thought Residencies ·

2019/04/16

The most challenging thing in my life is learning and living in French. Every day is a risk to speak, to be understood, to connect, to try to find subtlety where I don’t have the words. Here are some things I have done in French: a theatre Q&A, a presentation on playwrighting to a grade one class, made dentist appointments, signed up for swimming classes, looked for books on traditional Chinese costumes at my local bibliothèque, had many many cinq à septs with my neighbours. My vulnerability is

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Erin Shields - Thought #3 - Demolition

Thought Residencies ·

2019/04/11

I haven’t lived in Toronto for five years now. When I return, I notice the shifts in the urban landscape. On my walk from Factory to Tarragon today I saw the Honest Ed’s demolition site. In the middle of it all were two attached, three story buildings. These once-homes, once-shops stood bare and vulnerable in the rubble of the past. Alone, but for one another, they stand in defiance of a future that would have them submit to destruction. Do they feel pressured to crumble? Or bold in their

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Erin Shields - Thought #2 - A Play is a Wish

Thought Residencies ·

2019/04/09

A play is a wish, a hope, a longing; a series of thought experiments and arguments; surges of emotion and frustration, pain and longing, fear and desire; coordinated whispers and secrets and touches; and deep, purposeful spaces of unknowing. Until ... the first day of rehearsal. Looking forward to another beginning. Tomorrow.

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Erin Shields - Thought #1 - Battle Over Women's Bodies

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2019/04/04

I’ve been thinking a lot about the ceaseless battle over women’s bodies and the seemingly insatiable desire to control or legislate what women should or should not be wearing. There’s Premier Legualt’s imminent ban on “religious symbols” for public sector employees in Quebec, which is a thinly veiled attack on the freedom of Muslim women. Then there’s unhealthy capitalism which has coopted female beauty and transformed it into something which must be constantly doubted and perpetually augmented

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Michael Rubenfeld - Thought #10 - Józefa Dietla

Thought Residencies ·

2019/03/05

I’m not entirely sure how I became a producer. I think it had to do with my impatience. And I wonder what my life would have looked like if I had been more patient. If I’d still be in theatre or if I’d be doing something else. I think about that a lot and I wonder what else I’d be doing.

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Michael Rubenfeld - Thought #9 - Marginalized

Thought Residencies ·

2019/02/28

I made the decision to move to Poland partly so that I could raise a child in a society that didn’t want the Jewish people to exist here. There’s a kind of defiance in this decision. But I also wonder if I’m making the right choice for my child, constantly, when my family made the choice to move to Canada so I wouldn’t have to experience being marginalized.

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Michael Rubenfeld - Thought #8 - Clayton Lee

Thought Residencies ·

2019/02/26

Today my friend and coworker Clayton Lee was named the new festival director for the Rhubarb Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. And I’m very proud of Clayton. I’ve been working with Clayton for many years. And it’s an amazing step and accomplishment that he’s got this position. So congratulations Clayton!

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Michael Rubenfeld - Thought #7 - Promises

Thought Residencies ·

2019/02/21

Don’t make promises that you can’t keep. Because when people ask you to then honour the promise that you’ve made and you can’t, it makes you an asshole. And if you get angry with the people who are asking you to honour your promise, it makes you an even bigger asshole. And you’re the one who created the mess in the first place.

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Michael Rubenfeld - Thought #6 - Things are still...

Thought Residencies ·

2019/02/19

I’ve had the most successful few years on my life ... with Counting Sheep and starting CanadaHub. And my own play. But I can’t understand why things feel like they’re only getting harder when I thought they should start to feel like they’re getting easier. And I wonder who else feels that way.

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Michael Rubenfeld - Thought #5 - Young Artists

Thought Residencies ·

2019/02/19

I see a lot of young artists who have early success get really pushy with their ambitions. I’m curious about that. Im not saying it’s the wrong approach, but you’re liable to frustrate a lot of people that you’re dealing with. So unless you’re confident that your initial succes will translate into more and more and more success and you won’t need to care about what other people think about you. You should try and practice empathy for the people who are in the other side of that enquire. This is

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Michael Rubenfeld - Thought #4 - Parents

Thought Residencies ·

2019/02/15

Parents are champions. That’s all I can say. And anyone who’s raising twins, you’re an even bigger champion. Anyone who’s a parents and maintains sanity, you’re the biggest champion. But it all honesty, it’s completely bonkers, and, yeah, the best.

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Michael Rubenfeld - Thought #3 - Greatness

Thought Residencies ·

2019/02/12

I’m spending a lot of time and struggling with my relationship to other people and their need for others to recognize their greatness. I find it embarrassing and I’m not sure why. I think it might be connected to my embarrassment for the realities of humanity’s needs and behavioural patterns — these desires towards greatness and how deep down they’re just antidote for negotiating mortality.

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Michael Rubenfeld - Thought #2 - Foreigner

Thought Residencies ·

2019/02/07

It’s 8:30am and I’m feeding my son Lev, who’s 7 weeks old today. And I’m thinking about how when he begins to talk, he will speak a language that I don’t, as well as my own. And I wonder how that will make me feel about myself. Right now I don’t necessarily feel foreign, but I wonder if, once I can no longer understand what my child is saying, if I will then start to feel like a foreigner.

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Michael Rubenfeld - Thought #1 - Language

Thought Residencies ·

2019/02/07

“I’m doing this from my home in Krakow Poland, where I’ve been living on and off for about two to three years. And I’ve been thinking a lot about language, and how the use of language informs practice. And despite living in a country that—I think—has one of the most exciting theatrical practices in the world, I have very little access to it because of language. The Polish language, which I don’t speak.

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Jenna Rodgers - Thought #14 - Parting Words

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2019/01/31

I’m coming to you live from Vancouver, where I’m attending my first ever Push Festival. I’m wrapping up this residency in such a fitting way: surrounded by artists, thinkers, and makers who have gathered to celebrate and promote an international sharing of artistic work. That, and to celebrate the escape from the polar vortex that is plaguing the rest of Canada. Though, perhaps that, too, is a metaphor. We can’t ever truly escape the shit. The good weather and the bad are both connected to the

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