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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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01:08

Marcus Youssef - Thought #8 - Return to Freelance

Thought Residencies ·

2019/12/18

Hi, it's Marcus Yousef, thought number eight. I'm thinking about being a freelancer and how I'm no longer artistic director at Neworld. I stepped down from that position and the difference between controlling the conditions under which we make work. And when we don't, when you're working in relationship with others who control those. And the kind of tradeoff which is that -- like I stepped down from Neworld because I kind of had stopped sleeping through the night because there's all the details in

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01:37

Marcus Youssef - Thought #7 - Overwhelmingly Beautiful

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2019/12/16

Hi, it's uh Marcus Youssef here with thought number seven, which I think might extend into thoughts number eight and nine. Um, thinking about Saturday night when, uh, my partner and I were invited to a party for someone in our community, who was connected to many theatre people. Um, and we didn't realize it -- we knew she was uh sick -- um but we didn't realize it was actually the party the night before she, uh, decided to, uh, end her life. So it was kind of like her assisted suicide party. Um, and

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0:56

Marcus Youssef - Thought #6 - Pictures

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2019/12/11

Marcus Youssef here with thought number six. At a production of a mainstream, big theatre musical and thinking about how it's illegal for me to take this picture. And how I really want to take a picture because this set's really beautiful -- I'm not going to say what the production is. The set's really, really beautiful. And yeah, it's just the risk -- this is a boring thought -- but the rigamarole around the photographic recording of performance. And what that does and doesn't mean, and how much

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0:57

Marcus Youssef - Thought #5 - Busyness

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2019/12/11

Marcus Yousef here, this is thought number five. Thinking about the ideology of busy-ness and its connection to technology. And how, you know, as we all know, like busyness can be sort of weaponized. Or I feel like I weaponize it in relationship to other people. "I'm so busy. I'm so busy." But how also that's a real thing. And the desire to feel useful. The excitement of working a lot. The way it can feel like a status symbol and how it's related to anxiety and panic. How all those things are weaved

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0:47

Marcus Youssef - Thought #4 - winlose

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2019/12/11

Hi, it's Marcus Yousef, and this is my thought number four. I'm staring at Jamie Long, my friend and often collaborator, as we write a screenplay adaptation of our play Winners and Losers in the same room that we wrote the play in ten years ago, or something like that. And just thinking about the long trajectory of projects. Or how when you start a project, you know, once in a while, one of those projects becomes actually a good chunk of what you're doing with your life. Or can. And how that both

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01:10

Marcus Youssef - Thought #3 - Two Plays on Race and...

Thought Residencies ·

2019/12/05

Marcus Youssef here again, and this is thought number three. Thinking about two plays, An Octoroon and Fairview. Two remarkable plays that I love. I have yet to see productions, I've only read them. How those two plays -- which seem to be fundamentally changing the theatrical discourse about race and whiteness and the African-American experience or its relationship to culture in the U.S. -- were both commissioned and developed and had their first productions directed by Sara Benson. She runs Soho

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0:54

Marcus Youssef - Thought #2 - What if this is it?

Thought Residencies ·

2019/12/04

My name is Marcus Youssef. I'm a bit throaty and this is my second thought. I'm thinking about my friends, theatre makers James Long and Maiko Yamamoto, who just won this Simonovtich Prize for directing. And thinking, particularly about something Maiko said to me when I was doing some work helping another company, pals of our’s, strategic plan. She said a question she was really interested in asking about her and Jamie was like, what if this is it? What if this company we have built, if this is what

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0:47

Marcus Youssef - Thought #1 - Transitions

Thought Residencies ·

2019/12/03

Hey, my name's Marcus Youssef. This is my first thought. Today, I'm thinking about transitions, as theater artists and for me, as a writer who's just come out of like two intense rehearsal periods and coming back to writing and spending the vast majority of the day by myself and how it feels utterly unfamiliar and terrifying. Although like seven weeks ago, it was – it felt utterly right and exactly what I should be doing.

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0:40

Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #12 - Check Check Check

Thought Residencies ·

2019/11/28

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number twelve. We all know that we should eat well, exercise, limit alcohol, and not smoke- but when I do all of those things and still feel like going back to bed, I feel like I am somehow failing at life. So...Today I’m going to FLIP IT! Who says I can’t change up what I expect from myself to succeed at life today? Have I hugged someone? Check. Laughed? Check. Made someone else laugh? Check. Looked someone in the eye and smiled? Said thank

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0:32

Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #11 - Hard Questions

Thought Residencies ·

2019/11/28

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number eleven. I am sitting in a café working on the next draft of my script , Mizushobai. I am at a point where I am struggling with THE hardest question whose answer all roads will lead outwards from. My deadline for this draft is tonight and I’m pretty sure that I won’t reach it, because all I can think about is "When is the most appropriate time to go and get that cinnamon bun I saw on the counter when I ordered my coffee?"

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0:43

Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #10 - Middle

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2019/11/26

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number ten. I have been thinking all day of something to think about for this Thought Residency but I have come up with nothing and I think it’s because I’m in a very medium place right now. I am not sad but I’m not happy, I am not stressed but I’m not chill, I am not waiting but I’m not settled, I’m just here and I’m not even trying to not be here so my thoughts are... just...here?

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0:35

Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #9 - Time

Thought Residencies ·

2019/11/21

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number nine. This thought is on time. Or at least it was supposed to be on time. A stranger once told me I needed to look into the underlying reasons of why lateness was an issue of mine: was it because I overestimated what I could achieve in a day? Was it because of my ego- thinking that my time was worth more than others’ time? I’ve never done the work of looking into that, although I’ve always meant to. All I know is that at this moment, I am

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Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #8 - Walking in Space

Thought Residencies ·

2019/11/20

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number eight. You know when you’re walking down a busy city street and your hood is up because it’s snowing and you almost walk into the intersection without realizing it because you’re thinking so much about where you belong in this world and who you belong to? I used to have this friend who would grab the back of my shirt when I would thoughtlessly wander into traffic. I either need to get myself another one of those or I need to take my hood

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0:40

Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #7 - A Different Kind...

Thought Residencies ·

2019/11/19

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number seven. In thought number two I talked about a comfortable silence. But I am also thinking about a different kind of silence. The silence of backing away. The silence of shutting down. The silence I experience when faced with racism, towards me, towards others, even now as an adult. The silence of our brothers when we are not present to defend ourselves and even when we are present and the only ones to defend ourselves is us. The silence of

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Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #6 - Inner Outside

Thought Residencies ·

2019/11/14

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number six. So I have been thinking about inner demons-more like feeling them. And I am wondering how we hear those inner demons and choose to go forward, open the door and go outside. Um. I don’t have a solution to that, I’ve just been thinking about it.

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Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #5 - Mon Milkshake...

Thought Residencies ·

2019/11/14

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number five. I grew up in a small francophone town south of Montreal. I had been ridiculed when I was younger for not speaking French properly, so I made sure when I walked into a diner to order a “lait frappé”. The woman behind the counter said “Enh?” I said, “Un Lait frappé? She said, “Quoi?” “Un lait frappé.” And I pointed to the big menu on the entire wall behind her. She turned around and she said “Ah, tu veux un milkshake!

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Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #4 - Ghost Thoughts

Thought Residencies ·

2019/11/12

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number four. Today I went to visit my Japanese grandparents’ grave. It’s in a tiny Anglican graveyard in a small francophone town in the Eastern Townships of Québec. They were not Anglican but there wasn’t much choice for their final resting place. The story of how they got there is the story of displacement of Japanese and Japanese Canadians after the Second World War. I think about how they are as isolated in death as they were in life. Their

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Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #3 - All Together Now

Thought Residencies ·

2019/11/07

My Name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought three. So I was in a show with a life-sized elephant puppet, called Jumbo. Jumbo had 2 puppeteers inside him and one manipulator/actor on his trunk. One of the most poignant scenes with the puppet was a non-verbal scene with a fourth actor. I always wondered what made that scene work so well. It occurs to me now that it was one of the only moments of pure complicity: everyone-on and offstage worked towards the one goal of giving Jumbo life. They

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Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #2 - An Absence of Words

Thought Residencies ·

2019/11/06

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number two. I’ve been thinking about silence. Recently a friend told me that I gracefully repress emotion. And that that’s not healthy. But sometimes silence is good. Sometimes there is so much love and beauty in Silence. Sometimes Silence is just the absence of words (which can be so exhausting and complicated) and not the absence of me.

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Julie Tamiko Manning - Thought #1 - November

Thought Residencies ·

2019/11/05

My name is Julie Tamiko Manning and this is thought number one. This summer I was working at the Blyth Festival Theatre in Huron County in Southern Ontario. I would wake up every morning and before I got out of bed and I would take 30 seconds to think of something that I was grateful for. This was something that a friend of mine had encouraged me to do, and we would report back to each other every night. We were responsible to each other. I did it for her, but it didn’t really do much for me as I

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