Join us this Sunday to hear the fabulous news from last year’s10/11 Season. It’s also a great opportunity to chat with the staff and the Board of Directors about your TPM experiences over coffee and cookies.
Theatre Projects Manitoba’s 22nd Annual General Meeting
3PM Sunday January 22nd, 2012
504 – 100 Arthur: Manitoba Association of Playwright’s Rory Runnels Studio
Beverages & nibbles will be served
Hmmm…cookies and good conversation about theatre…very hard to go wrong with that plan.
Happy Holidays from TPM!
We wish you and all your loved ones peace and joy during the festive season and the happiest of new years!
An Interview with Ellen Peterson & The Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir!
On the eve of In the Chamber: Holiday Special, Playwright Rick Chafe catches up with this year's artists for a glimpse of their new creations.
Every year, Theatre Projects commissions two or more theatre artists to create a new piece for straight-from-the-oven-to-the-audience performance. December 8-10, In the Chamber: Holiday Special premieres a music/theatre mashup of the artistry of Ellen Peterson and the Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir (aka creative cyclones Sarah Constible and Michelle Boulet plus ten or so best friends) for two plays wrapped in one glittery package. Rick Chafe stopped the panting artists long enough to get a preview.
Rick: Overview please, what are the two shows in one about?
Sarah: The Fu Fu Chi Chi part takes place in hour 36 of a 12-day Christmas TV marathon. The host, Bobbie Lager, was supposed to be relieved 8 hours ago, and she’s very sick. She shows a selection of musical numbers, each one, coincidentally enough, performed by the choir.
Michelle: And then Sarah and I are sort of the accent in Ellen’s piece, because she’s doing monologues and we’re the ones who give her the chance to change costumes. We wrote all new songs for the choir for our show, and songs that resonate a lot with Ellen’s themes for hers.
Ellen: Mine is The Eight Tiny Reindeer of the Apocalypse. It’s about how the end of civilization as we know it is brought to collapse by Christmas. I play 3 characters over the span of 20 years. The first is an economics professor who’s seen the signs everywhere and is trying in vain to get people to stop the madness. Her students wouldn’t listen and she becomes a doomsday prophet, standing out on the corner of Portage and Vaughn. The next character is a woman who is married and has children, but she had a breakdown the previous year. She’s trying to get her Christmas mojo together, trying to make the magic happen, but it’s not going very well. The third is a preacher of a so-called church—but there’s no 2-sentence version of this, so you have to come see.
Rick: Where did the Christmas theme come from? More >
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Join us this Sunday to hear the fabulous news from last year’s10/11 Season. It’s also a great opportunity to chat with the staff and the Board of Directors about your TPM experiences over coffee and cookies.
Theatre Projects Manitoba’s 22nd Annual General Meeting 3PM Sunday January 22nd, 2012 504 – 100 Arthur: Manitoba Association of Playwright’s Rory Runnels Studio Beverages & nibbles will be servedHmmm…cookies and good conversation about theatre…very hard to go wrong with that plan.
Happy Holidays from TPM!
We wish you and all your loved ones peace and joy during the festive season and the happiest of new years!
An Interview with Ellen Peterson & The Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir!
On the eve of In the Chamber: Holiday Special, Playwright Rick Chafe catches up with this year's artists for a glimpse of their new creations.
Every year, Theatre Projects commissions two or more theatre artists to create a new piece for straight-from-the-oven-to-the-audience performance. December 8-10, In the Chamber: Holiday Special premieres a music/theatre mashup of the artistry of Ellen Peterson and the Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir (aka creative cyclones Sarah Constible and Michelle Boulet plus ten or so best friends) for two plays wrapped in one glittery package. Rick Chafe stopped the panting artists long enough to get a preview.
Rick: Overview please, what are the two shows in one about?
Sarah: The Fu Fu Chi Chi part takes place in hour 36 of a 12-day Christmas TV marathon. The host, Bobbie Lager, was supposed to be relieved 8 hours ago, and she’s very sick. She shows a selection of musical numbers, each one, coincidentally enough, performed by the choir.
Michelle: And then Sarah and I are sort of the accent in Ellen’s piece, because she’s doing monologues and we’re the ones who give her the chance to change costumes. We wrote all new songs for the choir for our show, and songs that resonate a lot with Ellen’s themes for hers.
Ellen: Mine is The Eight Tiny Reindeer of the Apocalypse. It’s about how the end of civilization as we know it is brought to collapse by Christmas. I play 3 characters over the span of 20 years. The first is an economics professor who’s seen the signs everywhere and is trying in vain to get people to stop the madness. Her students wouldn’t listen and she becomes a doomsday prophet, standing out on the corner of Portage and Vaughn. The next character is a woman who is married and has children, but she had a breakdown the previous year. She’s trying to get her Christmas mojo together, trying to make the magic happen, but it’s not going very well. The third is a preacher of a so-called church—but there’s no 2-sentence version of this, so you have to come see.
Rick: Where did the Christmas theme come from? More >