Announcing the 2022 Soulpepper Academy Ensemble
Soulpepper Theatre Company has announced the five artists selected for the 2022 cohort of the Soulpepper Academy.
Soulpepper Theatre Company has announced the five artists selected for the 2022 cohort of the Soulpepper Academy.
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“Over the course of my career, I have been passionate about creating work that explores the depth and breadth of the Black voice in its many artistic dialects and having an opportunity to continue to do this within the context of Obsidian is such a gift.”
Soulpepper Theatre Company and Bad Hats Theatre have announced the cast for Peter Pan!
For Gillis, the invitation that occurs between the show and the audience exists in the music.
“Each of these plays, in their own kind of place, have shown something new. Each in their own time and each in their own way has shown us something new about what theatre can do.”
“It’s got to be words first, ’what’s being said here?’ Setting other people’s words to music is what I’ve always done, and this is the apex of that”
I remembered each poem so intimately, so clearly, it was as if the play had etched itself into my heart and my brain ten years earlier; as if I had never put the script down since first touching it.