Theatre

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Our stage productions may include emotionally challenging content which audience members might find disturbing or triggering. They may also contain loud noises, bright flashing strobe lights, haze and fog.

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Euripidaristophanize or The Art Poetic Weighted in Scales  by Sophie Jacome

Part of the See-More Series, presented by Canadian Student Living

Sir James Dunn Theatre - Dal Arts Centre
March 26 - March 28 | 7:30pm
March 30 | 2:00pm & 7:30pm

How do you make art when the world is falling apart?

DalTheatre is proud to present the world premiere of Euripidaristophanize, written by Dalhousie alum Sophie Jacome. A team of graduating students from the Fountain School’s Acting, Costume Studies, Theatre Studies, and Stage Design and Technical Theatre programs play leading roles in staging this production.

Mixing quick, modern dialogue with extracts from incredible Classical dramas, Euripidaristophanize explores the role of artists in a world in crisis. At its heart is a human story that speaks directly to our own time. It’s a story about not only surviving, but thriving creatively and connecting with others in the face of impossible circumstances.

“Euripidaristophanize” is a word coined in ancient Athens to describe the comic playwright Aristophanes’ passionate, combative engagement with his older contemporary, the tragic playwright Euripides. Jacome’s play explores the relationship that develops between these two brilliant writers as their city spirals into a traumatic period of plague and war.

Playwright Sophie Jacome is a Scotland-based, Canadian-born playwright with a creative and personal interest in exploring feminist and LGBTQI2S+ stories, as well as recontextualizing and questioning history for the modern stage. She earned her BA in Classics and Theatre Studies from Dalhousie University in 2019, and completed her MSc in Playwriting from the University of Edinburgh in 2020. Sophie has been a member of the Wonderfools Youth Board, where she assists in dramaturging new commissions for young people. Her work has been workshopped internationally and has recently featured on the long lists of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting, the Papatango Award, the David Maclennan Award, and both the Traverse and Paines Plough Open Submissions lists. She has had a short commission from Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company, and streamed staged readings in Canada of her works The Mask of Agamemnon and Objects. 

***Mentions of war, siege, death, plague, and sexuality throughout. Discussion and depiction of misogynist images of femininity, particularly in Act 2.  Use of haze and bright lights.

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1837: A Presentation of Historical Dress

Part of the See-More Series, presented by Canadian Student Living

A showcase of work by graduating Costume Studies students, exploring traditional techniques and industrial innovations from the very beginning of the Victorian era.

April 9 | 7:30pm
Joseph Strug Concert Hall, 1385 Seymour St. Halifax NS
Tickets available at Dal Arts Centre box office, box office fees will apply
www.dal.ca/artscentre

As an 18-year-old Queen Victoria took the British throne, marking the transition out of the Georgian era and into the Victorian, a growing tide of new technologies and industries was changing how people lived, worked, and related to the world around them. While many heralded these new developments as positive progress, others worried about the changing relationships between humanity and the natural world - a concern that feels familiar today. Dress reflected these wider developments in a variety of ways, from the growing use of industrially produced fabric and materials, to shifts in how the fashionable silhouette presented - and altered - the human body. The fashions of 1837, presented by graduating Costume Studies students in this historical dress showcase, provide a lens into a rapidly changing world.