rEvolver Festival 2023
byUpintheair Theatre’s rEvolver Festival opens May 24th, presenting inventive and progressive Canadian live theatre, created by emerging and established artists.
rEvolver Festival 2023
- When: Wednesday May 24 to Sunday June 4, 2023
- Where: The Cultch (1895 Venables Street, Vancouver)
- Admission: Tickets available online; Tickets are “pay what you want” from $15 – $30
- Passes: 3 Show Pass $51; 6 Show Pass $96; All-Access Pass $120
Programmed by UpintheAir Theatre’s Resident Curators Sarah Roa and Lili Robinson, Artistic Director David Mott, and Founding Artistic Producer Emeritus Daniel Martin.
With 10 mainstage productions, the 12-day festival showcases new works from artists who share a common aim to reinvent conventional theatre modes.
The line-up includes contemporary dance, drag, sketch comedy, and performance art. The festival’s special presentations offer more distinct multidisciplinary shows with an off-site micro-performance, a film screening and gathering, a satirical professional development webinar, an interactive website experience, a climate and housing workshop, and an online karaoke night.
Indigenous Emerging:
- Resist Revive Replenish, Savage Society
- A Buzz in Your Hub: Entrepreneurial Strategies for the Late Capitalist Death Spiral, Nakuset Gould, Chris Bose and Heather Mclean
- Beat, Yeet and Eat!, Raven John AKA TwoSpiritTrickster
Digital Presentations:
- The Investigator, Wren Brian
- Birthing A Baby Revolutionary, Images of Whole
- Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night!, Davey Samuel Calderon
Mainstage Shows:
- First Métis Man of Odesa, Punctuate! Theatre, Matthew MacKenzie and Mariya Khomutova
- A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To Canada, Grace Chin
- Birthing A Baby Revolutionary, Images of Whole
- June Bug, Ragamuffin Productions Ashley Chodat
- Lip Service: Breaking Down Barriers, Pulsive Party Natalie Tin Yin Gan and Ashley Whitehead
- QEIII – Black Betty – a lost Shakespeare play, David Geary
- This Feels Like The End, Bonnie Duff
- Vascular Necrosis, Bramble Theatre Collective, Jordyn Wood
- Would Virginia Woolf Contemplate Suicide if She Were Filipino?, Voices of Asia International, Revan Badingham III
- A MENOS QUE QUIERAS BAILAR (Unless You Want To Dance), Kelly McInnes, Areli Moran, Rianne Švelnis
- Catfish, Alley Theatre
- Discounted Hotpot Centre, Anthony Kit Chun Lee
- Duality, Spicy Lemon Company Yuki Ueda & Elliot Wagner
- PRUDE, Probably Theatre Collective Lou Campbell
- Rice-silience, House of Rice Van Dang, Kendell Yan & Romi Kim
- YOU AND I ≠ WE, Romi Kim and Kendell Yan or SKIM and Maiden China
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